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Agent (965 facts / 653 unique)
Awards and honors (62,246 facts / 8,062 unique)
Birthdate (20,619 facts / 11,994 unique)
Blurbers (5,694 facts / 3,935 unique)
Burial location (2,240 facts / 1,698 unique)
Canonical name (11,224 facts / 10,675 unique)
Canonical title (56,268 facts / 49,663 unique)
Connections (1 facts / 1 unique)
Date of death (11,067 facts / 7,496 unique)
Dedication (5,208 facts / 4,929 unique)
Description (18,692 facts / 17,258 unique)
Disambiguation notice (17,740 facts / 11,198 unique)
Education (14,800 facts / 4,991 unique)
Epigraph (2,591 facts / 2,521 unique)
First words (13,420 facts / 12,954 unique)
Gender (34,825 facts / 4 unique)
Important events (1,576 facts / 674 unique)
Important places (50,228 facts / 15,981 unique)
Last words (9,852 facts / 9,535 unique)
Legal name (1,930 facts / 1,889 unique)
Nationality (19,214 facts / 672 unique)
Occupations (26,778 facts / 5,847 unique)
Organizations (10,024 facts / 5,106 unique)
Original publication date (61,321 facts / 4,237 unique)
Other names (1,158 facts / 1,121 unique)
People/Characters (164,509 facts / 89,564 unique)
Places of residence (28,409 facts / 9,083 unique)
Publisher's editor (5,830 facts / 1,532 unique)
Quotations (1,418 facts / 1,367 unique)
Relationships (2,884 facts / 1,924 unique)
Series (187,805 facts / 25,394 unique)
Short biography (2,489 facts / 2,470 unique)
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