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Agent (1,337 facts / 900 unique)
Awards and honors (86,879 facts / 11,844 unique)
Birthdate (60,141 facts / 24,460 unique)
Blurbers (11,840 facts / 8,304 unique)
Burial location (3,690 facts / 2,712 unique)
Canonical name (26,031 facts / 24,122 unique)
Canonical title (103,500 facts / 87,938 unique)
Connections (1 facts / 1 unique)
Date of death (26,938 facts / 14,946 unique)
Dedication (13,706 facts / 12,703 unique)
Description (26,400 facts / 24,061 unique)
Disambiguation notice (27,870 facts / 18,275 unique)
Education (28,703 facts / 8,183 unique)
Epigraph (5,474 facts / 5,311 unique)
First words (28,429 facts / 27,186 unique)
Gender (175,598 facts / 4 unique)
Important events (4,896 facts / 2,004 unique)
Important places (71,647 facts / 21,557 unique)
Last words (22,123 facts / 21,208 unique)
Legal name (13,344 facts / 12,908 unique)
Media reviews (15 facts / 15 unique)
Nationality (48,325 facts / 1,108 unique)
Occupations (55,972 facts / 12,231 unique)
Organizations (20,728 facts / 9,521 unique)
Original publication date (87,674 facts / 5,283 unique)
Other names (6,675 facts / 6,402 unique)
People/Characters (230,615 facts / 124,346 unique)
Places of residence (49,299 facts / 13,768 unique)
Publisher's editor (3,188 facts / 2,020 unique)
Quotations (3,503 facts / 3,371 unique)
Relationships (9,595 facts / 7,100 unique)
Series (250,232 facts / 32,452 unique)
Short biography (4,616 facts / 4,584 unique)
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