The Hoax
E225166
The Hoax is a book by Clifford Irving recounting his infamous, fabricated autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes and the scandal that followed.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Hoax canonical | 5 |
| The Hoax (2006 film) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2021302 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Hoax Context triple: [Clifford Irving, notableWork, The Hoax]
-
A.
The Great American Lie
The Great American Lie is a documentary film that examines economic inequality and the cultural values underpinning the American Dream, directed by filmmaker and activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
-
B.
The Fraud
The Fraud is a historical novel by Zadie Smith that intertwines a 19th-century literary household with the infamous Tichborne trial to explore truth, authorship, and identity in Victorian England.
-
C.
Smoke and Mirrors
"Smoke and Mirrors" is a collection of dark fantasy and speculative short stories by Neil Gaiman that blends myth, horror, and contemporary life.
-
D.
The Informant!
The Informant! is a 2009 dark comedy crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh, in which Matt Damon plays a corporate executive turned whistleblower in a real-life price-fixing scandal.
-
E.
The Imposture
The Imposture is a Caroline-era stage play by English dramatist James Shirley, known as one of his notable comedies of intrigue.
- 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: The Hoax Target entity description: The Hoax is a book by Clifford Irving recounting his infamous, fabricated autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes and the scandal that followed.
-
A.
The Great American Lie
The Great American Lie is a documentary film that examines economic inequality and the cultural values underpinning the American Dream, directed by filmmaker and activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
-
B.
The Fraud
The Fraud is a historical novel by Zadie Smith that intertwines a 19th-century literary household with the infamous Tichborne trial to explore truth, authorship, and identity in Victorian England.
-
C.
Smoke and Mirrors
"Smoke and Mirrors" is a collection of dark fantasy and speculative short stories by Neil Gaiman that blends myth, horror, and contemporary life.
-
D.
The Informant!
The Informant! is a 2009 dark comedy crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh, in which Matt Damon plays a corporate executive turned whistleblower in a real-life price-fixing scandal.
-
E.
The Imposture
The Imposture is a Caroline-era stage play by English dramatist James Shirley, known as one of his notable comedies of intrigue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
non-fiction book ⓘ |
| aboutEvent | Howard Hughes autobiography hoax scandal ⓘ |
| aboutOrganization |
Life magazine
ⓘ
McGraw-Hill ⓘ |
| aboutPerson |
Clifford Irving
ⓘ
Howard Hughes ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
The Hoax (2006 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Hoax
|
| author | Clifford Irving ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describes |
Clifford Irving’s role in the Howard Hughes hoax
ⓘ
fabricated autobiography of Howard Hughes ⓘ legal consequences of the Howard Hughes hoax ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Lasse Hallström ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationStar |
Alfred Molina
ⓘ
Richard Gere ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
ⓘ
true crime ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeLocation |
Switzerland
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasPageCount | approx. 400 ⓘ |
| hasSubjectCategory |
American memoirs
ⓘ
books about fraud ⓘ books about writers ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
celebrity culture
ⓘ
deception ⓘ ethics in publishing ⓘ greed ⓘ media manipulation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Howard Hughes autobiography hoax
ⓘ
literary forgery ⓘ publishing scandal ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed description of forging documents and interviews
ⓘ
insider account of the Howard Hughes autobiography fraud ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1972 ⓘ |
| publisher | McGraw-Hill ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 1970s ⓘ |
| timeOfNarratedEventsEnd | 1972 ⓘ |
| timeOfNarratedEventsStart | 1970 ⓘ |
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: The Hoax Description of subject: The Hoax is a book by Clifford Irving recounting his infamous, fabricated autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes and the scandal that followed.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Hoax
linked to: The Hoax