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Agent (654 facts / 446 unique)

Awards and honors (37,474 facts / 6,257 unique)

Burial location (1,457 facts / 1,155 unique)

Canonical name (5,342 facts / 5,004 unique)

Canonical title (15,766 facts / 14,256 unique)

Connections (0 facts / 0 unique)

Date of birth (14,514 facts / 8,702 unique)

Date of death (7,600 facts / 5,264 unique)

Description (11,368 facts / 10,697 unique)

Disambiguation notice (9,623 facts / 6,670 unique)

Education (10,823 facts / 3,835 unique)

Gender (26,179 facts / 2 unique)

Important places (31,466 facts / 11,413 unique)

Nationality (12,711 facts / 478 unique)

Occupations (17,249 facts / 4,005 unique)

Organizations (6,845 facts / 3,570 unique)

Original publication date (37,797 facts / 3,108 unique)

People/Characters (110,982 facts / 62,247 unique)

Places of residence (20,630 facts / 6,920 unique)

Publisher's editor (3,541 facts / 884 unique)

Series (123,473 facts / 16,742 unique)

Short biography (1,705 facts / 1,688 unique)

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