Joshuah Bearman
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Joshuah Bearman is an American journalist and author known for his long-form narrative nonfiction, including the article that inspired the film "Argo."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joshuah Bearman canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105494 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Joshuah Bearman Context triple: [Argo, basedOnAuthor, Joshuah Bearman]
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A.
Evan Schiff
Evan Schiff is a film editor known for his work on high-profile action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
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B.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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C.
Joshua Michael Stern
Joshua Michael Stern is an American film director and screenwriter known for helming biographical and dramatic feature films.
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D.
Evan Washburn
Evan Washburn is an American sports reporter best known as a sideline correspondent for CBS’s NFL coverage, including major events like the Super Bowl.
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E.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joshuah Bearman Target entity description: Joshuah Bearman is an American journalist and author known for his long-form narrative nonfiction, including the article that inspired the film "Argo."
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A.
Evan Schiff
Evan Schiff is a film editor known for his work on high-profile action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
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B.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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C.
Joshua Michael Stern
Joshua Michael Stern is an American film director and screenwriter known for helming biographical and dramatic feature films.
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D.
Evan Washburn
Evan Washburn is an American sports reporter best known as a sideline correspondent for CBS’s NFL coverage, including major events like the Super Bowl.
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E.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
ⓘ
digital publication ⓘ journalist ⓘ media company ⓘ nonfiction writer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Argo (2012 film)
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linked to:
Argo
article by Joshuah Bearman ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy | Joshuah Bearman ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Epic Magazine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Wesleyan University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
magazine journalism
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narrative reporting ⓘ |
| genre |
long-form journalism
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narrative nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | producer ⓘ |
| influencedWork | television adaptations based on Epic Magazine stories ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inspiring the film Argo
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long-form narrative features ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Escape from Tehran: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Iran
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linked to:
Tehran exfiltration operation
The Great Escape ⓘ The Legend of Master Legend ⓘ article that inspired the film Argo ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| workPublishedIn |
Harper's Magazine
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McSweeney's ⓘ Rolling Stone ⓘ The New York Times Magazine ⓘ This American Life ⓘ Wired ⓘ
linked to:
Wired magazine
|
| writesAbout |
crime
ⓘ
espionage ⓘ history ⓘ popular culture ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Joshuah Bearman Description of subject: Joshuah Bearman is an American journalist and author known for his long-form narrative nonfiction, including the article that inspired the film "Argo."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Joshuah Bearman
subject linked to:
The Great Escape
subject linked to:
The Great Escape