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Library of Congress Name Authority

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Authority records maintained by the Library of Congress for the purpose of identifying authors and subjects, as well as other people associated with a work. The intent is that an authority record be strong, but unfortunately many are "undifferentiated" -- multiple people with the same name are conflated into a single record. Likewise, a person might have two separate authority records (perhaps under different names) which might be merged at some point. To further complicate matters, there are cases where the maintainers seem to desire multiple records for a single individual: Mark Twain has a separate entry under Samuel Clemens. Such entries seem to be rare and inconsistently created.

Over time, NNDB is attempting to correlate as many of our profiles with LOC Name Authority records as possible. Even though this is accomplished by manual examination to ensure as few errors as possible, sometimes the underlying data will change. For instance, we might inadvertently link to an undifferentiated record. There are also cases where we cannot correlate anything, because the only record available has obvious undifferentiation.

People in this reference:11968
Those presently living:6974
Those deceased:4992
  
White:10217
Black:977
Hispanic:275
Multiracial:179
Asian:127
Middle Eastern:80
Asian/Indian:79
American Aborigine:23
Asian/Pacific Islander:8
Other:2
(not specified):1
  
United States:8712
England:1291
Canada:379
France:228
Germany:150
Australia:122
Italy:118
Scotland:97
Ireland:62
Spain:48
Russia:46
Wales:43
India:35
Mexico:32
Ancient Rome:32
Austria:32
Denmark:30
Sweden:26
Brazil:25
Netherlands:24
(others):436
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      Caroline Aaron
      Hank Aaron
      Frank Abagnale
      Claudio Abbado
      Edward Abbey
      Bud Abbott
      Greg Abbott
      Jacob Abbott
      Jim Abbott
      Tony Abbott
      James Abdnor
      Paula Abdul
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      John E. Zuccotti
      Mark Zuckerberg
      Louis Zukofsky
      Daphne Zuniga
      Konrad Zuse
      Harald Zwart
      Huldrych Zwingli


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