Following my very recent AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERIMENT, PART ONE: FROM MARILYN MONROE TO PETER NOONE blog post, which set out details of my artificial intelligence (AI) experiment of finding out who has the most books written about them by using Google's Gemini, I was hoping that this second part of the blog post would reveal the results of my experiment experiment. But because of the length of this blog post, I will reveal the search results in a third and final part.
As mentioned, I searched the number of books written for well over 10,000 people, 10,718 people to be precise, which is a very big sample. But 1,544 searches of people yielded no results, that's nearly 15 per cent of total searches that Google's Gemini drew a blank (see Endnote 6 on no search results) and, in 50 cases, Gemini didn't even recognise the person's name (see Endnote 7 on names not recognised).
There were some very surprising names that yielded no search results, such as the names of Joe Biden, King Charles III (aka Tampon Charlie), Benjamin Disraeli, Muammar Gaddafi, Oliver Hardy, Bob Hope, Xi Jinping, Boris Johnson, Helmut Kohl, Vladimir Lenin, Emmanuel Macron, François Mitterrand, Dudley Moore, Jack Nicklaus, Plato, Richard Pryor, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Russell, Donald Trump and Boris Yeltsin.
For example, Google's Gemini couldn't give me any results for Donald Trump, even though The Guardian claimed there are about 4,500 English-language books written about him. I cannot explain why Gemini couldn't deliver any results for him or certain other people, especially as it always told me when I searched that someone had no books written about them. There's something else going on. Maybe it's the right to be invisible on the internet which only rich people, and their estates, can afford to exercise and enforce, though I can't imagine Donald Trump wanting to exercise his right to be invisible on the internet. Maybe in a few cases there was some form of censorship going on for some names - genocide and serial killers often yielded no results. But I just don't know what's going on to explain the high number of no search results.
Out of necessity, I had to exclude these names from my list. This astonishingly high number of no search results casts considerable doubt on the accuracy of my final rankings of people whom have had the most books written about them. Arguably, it even invalidates the findings of this experiment.
And it gets worse. There were many, just over 100, people whose search results were so vague and even meaningless that I had to exclude them from my final rankings. To rank, I needed numbers or at least words that can be converted to numbers. Google's Gemini had a habit of not giving me numbers despite me asking it to give me numbers. There were gobbledygook findings, nonsensical findings offered by Google's Gemini. Such nonsense findings ruled out Jesus Christ, Jane Fonda, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Henry Kissinger, RuPaul, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Thomas the Apostle and Tiger Woods from my rankings. See Endnote 8 for gobbledygook search findings.
Perhaps not quite so meaningless but still very vague, there were many people that had to be omitted from my ranking of people with most books written about them There were over 25 people that Google's Gemini told me that countless books have been written about them, including Winston Churchill, Confucius, Raphael, Socrates and Leonardo da Vinci - see Endnote 9 for people with countless books. I can't count countless.
And the there were those people that Google's Gemini told me that a vast, substantial or large number of books had been written about people (such as Thomas Edison, Alexander Hamilton, George Frideric Handel, Marquis de Sade, Richard Strauss and Margaret Thatcher) - see Endnote 10 for people with vast, substantial or large numbers of books.
The next one is a big one. Just over 1,000 people had numerous books written about them. See Endnote 11 for people with numerous books. Alexander the Great, Jane Austen, Ludwig van Beethoven, Julius Caesar, Christopher Columbus, Copernicus, Charles Darwin, Bob Dylan, Dwight D Eisenhower, Queen Elizabeth I, Benjamin Franklin, Sigmund Freud, Galileo Galilei, Mahatma Gandhi, King Henry VIII, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, John Lennon, Nelson Mandela, Karl Marx, Moses, Prophet Muhammad, Isaac Newton, Pablo Picasso, Vladimir Putin, William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, George Washington, William the Conqueror and Mao Zedong have just been taken out of the game!
Well over 250 people, according to Google's Gemini, had many books written about them - see Endnote 12 for people with many books. Because I cannot quantify what 'many' means, all these people had to be discarded from my reckoning, which included big-hitters like Alexander Graham Bell, Osama bin Laden, Cleopatra VII, Bill Clinton, Constantine the Great, Oliver Cromwell, Princess Diana, Charles Dickens, Adolf Hitler, Genghis Khan, Che Guevara, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Florence Nightingale, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Marco Polo, Queen Victoria, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde and Deng Xiaoping. Yet again, all were taken out of the game.
Similarly, there were 10 people searched for, including Noël Coward and Titian, who had extensive books written about them; nearly 50 people, including Vasco da Gama and Philip V of Spain, who had a significant number of books written about them; and 15 people, including Jahangir and Joseph Smith, who had a various number of books written about them. All had to be ruled out of the game because I cannot quantify what an extensive, significant or various number of books are. See Endnote 13 for people with extensive, significant or various books.
There were quite a few people that Google's Gemini did a number on. The problem was that Gemini just stated that a number of books had been written about these people when I asked for the number of books. See Endnote 14 for people with a number of books.
Nearly 800 people, according to Google's Gemini, had several books written about them. This list included, perhaps surprisingly, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev, Steve McQueen, Jim Morrison, Elon Musk, Max Weber, Robin Williams and Brian Wilson - see Endnote 15 on people with several books. All these people had to be discarded from my reckoning because I'm unable to put a number on several.
Well over 300 people were identified by Google's Gemini as having a multitude or multiple books written about them - see Endnote 16 on people with multiple books. I don't know what multiple means, is it 3,300 or 3,000? I just don't know. All had to go.
On the other end of the scale, Google's Gemini identified nearly 50 people, including Hugo Boss, Lyndon B Johnson, Laozi and Robert Mugabe, who had a limited or very limited number of books written about them. Again, all had to go.
Also at the lower end of the scale there's nearly 90 people identified by Google's Gemini of having some books written about them (eg Jim Bakker, Lê Äức Thá»), not many books (eg Henry J Heinz, Henri Nestlé ), not a large number of books (eg Pierre Auger), a small number of books (eg Yakub al-Mansur) and a few books (eg Tim Berners-Lee, Beyoncé, Cristiano Ronaldo, J K Rowling) - see Endnote 17 on people with few books. Yet again, all these people had to go because of the lack of quantification.
Given I wanted a quantitative count and not a qualitative descriptor of the number of books written about people, I had no choice but to leave out those people with a gobbledygook or vague description of the number of books. I have no idea what number words like 'countless', 'vast', 'substantial', 'large', 'numerous', 'many', extensive', 'significant', 'various', 'several', 'a number', 'multiple', 'limited', some' and 'few' mean. I'm presuming 'countless' is more than 'few', but is 'numerous' more than 'many' and is 'several' more than 'some'? Even if Google's Gemini used these descriptors consistently between different people, and that's a big if, I cannot quantify from these indeterminate and unclear search results. However, there were a few words, like 'dozens', 'hundreds' and 'thousands', that Google's Gemini used that I did include in my ranking. I'm not a total pedant!
This meant 2,790 people were left out of my ranking. On top of the 1,544 people for which no search results could be found, this meant 4,334 out of 10,718 people searched for had to be excluded from my calculations, that's over 40 per cent of my total searches. This astonishingly high figure casts considerable doubt on the accuracy of my findings and, I would argue, even invalidates my findings.
Going back to my predicted top twenty, over half of my predictions were excluded because of no, nonsensical or vague search results. Left out of the game are Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad, William Shakespeare, Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump, Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria, George Washington, Nelson Mandela, Confucius, Leonardo da Vinci and Karl Marx. Still in the game are Napoleon Bonaparte, John F Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth II, Joseph Stalin, Marilyn Monroe, Abraham Lincoln, Michelangelo and Albert Einstein - just eight out of 20 names left standing!
Also out of the game are Alexander the Great, Ludwig van Beethoven, Simón BolÃvar, Cleopatra, Christopher Columbus, Princess Diana, Francisco Franco, Mahatma Gandhi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Xi Jinping, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Vladimir Lenin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Isaac Newton, Richard Nixon, Vladimir Putin, Socrates, Margaret Thatcher and Mao Zedong.
Do you think I've been too harsh in determining who's in and who's out of the game?
Do you like reading autobiographies and biographies? If so, what are your favourites of such books?
I like reading autobiographies and biographies, though I much prefer unauthorised biographies as they're likely to be more critically objective than an autobiography or an authorised biography. One of my favourite such books is Charly Wegelius' autobiography, Domestique, about his time as a domestique in the Tour de France and other road cycling races.
As mentioned, because this second part has done some heavy lifting, plus heavy reading, a third and final part of the blog post will reveal the results - just imagine a long drum roll in the meantime! Thank you for making it this far. I think now you may be able to understand why there's a trilogy.
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Like I’ve always said, I always learn something new when I visit your blog. 😎
I hope that run continues.
I admire your perseverance. I think the one thing you have conclusively proved is that AI is not as clever as we all think. Yet. I still look forward to the final, if somewhat meaningless list. I appreciate your work.
Once I start something, I like to finish it. Now retired, I do have the time for these sorts of things.
I’m surprised that you persisted with your experiment once it became obvious that you weren’t going to get reliable results.
i wonder if there is a more accurate source (Library of Congress?) and if it would be more effective to ask an engine to generate a list rather than asking for a numerical count?
It was tempting to give up but I don't like aborting projects.
To do this without using AI would have taken me far longer but the results would have been far more accurate. I would have had to check a variety of sources like Amazon, Goodreads, IMDb, Wikipedia, British Library, Library of Congress and other national/reputable libraries.
AI was far worse than I expected.
Since AI has a bad tendency to hallucinate, it can't be trusted. However, it can aggregate simple queries such as popular tourists spots in certain regions adequately.
For reading, I prefer fiction, primarily whodunnits.
I thought AI would perform well in this experiment as it only had to aggregate from a few sites to arrive at a figure. It failed spectacularly.
Definitely eliminate the gobbledygook. I suspect that , though AI is good at summarizing, it has a hard time counting. Maybe it has ingested so many sources that it has a hard time distinguishing the same book mentioned multiple times. Or, they were just filtered out. I'm not sure many can explain how it works in these cases. I do like biographies. There are two that stuck with me, both were by war photographers, Lynsey Addario and Benjamin Hall. Both had close calls, Hall had a really bad one.
It's puzzling and concerning that AI was so bad in this experiment. I didn't think it would be good but I didn't realise it would be so bad.
I already mentioned in another post of this series of yours that you’ve taken on a truly monumental task, but a fascinating one. So, courage and good luck with it!
I haven’t read many full biographies, to be honest, but I did consult them quite a lot in the past: back in the pre-Google era, whenever I wanted to check specific details, chapters, or episodes. Our home library is full of biographies from all periods and people, and it was quite common that, during a lively conversation at a friends’ gathering, if someone asserted something about a historical figure and someone else disagreed, we’d reach for a biography to settle the “dispute.â€
But since Google came along… and that was a long time ago now, those poor books have been quietly gathering dust on the shelves 🙂
Google, I think, has changed our habits. I suspect we're more likely to believe what Google says than what a real person says.
The number of times I have a conversation with my stepson only for him to Google what I said for him to believe what I had said is numerous. For me, it's a lack of critical thought on his behalf.
@spunkycumfun
Yes, I really don't like it when someone interrupts a conversation every few minutes to check on Google the truth or accuracy of a statement; doing that breaks the rhythm of the conversation and its spontaneity.
@AuraAviatik6 That interruption is never good. In fact, it's rude.
As for reading, I read numerous biographies. Mostly business persons as that is my area. Most are related to research.
Most biographies I've read are political biographies, like you related to work.
I was having a conversation this week with a colleague about AI. My biggest issue is that AI does not know fact from fiction. As for your search, I think most biographies are titled something other than the persons name. Can AI recognize these as a biography about a particular person? Also did the search create fictional books? I hate to say it (well not really) but I believe your search revealed nothing except that AI has problems.
AI seemed to recognise a biography and definitely knew the difference between fiction and nonfiction books.
AI was very disappointing in this experiment.
Your research may not be netting the results you hoped for but it has proven to me that AI ain't really worth shit!
That's my conclusion too. At best AI is a starting point but it's certainly not the end point. AI in this case even surprised me by its uselessness as I initially thought I was giving it an easy task to undertake..
I don't read books and that's a LOT of information my friend. I am just wondering though how many times they have searched the name JEFFREY EPSTEIN!! 🤔🤔
Thanks for sharing this information with us, and I hope you enjoy a wonderful weekend..
It is a lot on information. I didn't know what I was taking on when I started but I was determined to finish.
I should imagine that Epstein is one of the most searched words on the internet!
ENDNOTE 6: NO SEARCH RESULTS
Amongst many others, the following hundred notable persons, presented in surname alphabetical order wherever possible, yielded no search results: Salvador Allende, Sam Altman, Giulio Andreotti, Aristotle, Julian Assange, David Attenborough, Steve Bannon, Silvio Berlusconi, Joe Biden, Jair Bolsonaro, Geoffrey Boycott, Ted Bundy, George Burns, David Cameron, Albert Camus, Mark Carney, Raúl Castro, King Charles III, Jacques Chirac, Helena Christensen, Cicero, Nick Clegg, Jimmy Connors, Benjamin Disraeli, David Duke, Gerald Durrell, Endybis, Jeffrey Epstein, Kenny Everett, Nigel Farage, Anthony Fauci, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Laurent Fignon, Glenn Frey, Nick Fuentes, Muammar Gaddafi, Indira Gandhi, Newt Gingrich, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Lady Godiva, Oliver Hardy, Charlton Heston, Heinrich Himmler, Bob Hope, Jahya Jammeh, Xi Jinping, Boris Johnson, John the Apostle, William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Eartha Kitt, Helmut Kohl, Olga Korbut, Estée Lauder, Vladimir Lenin, Pope Leo XIV, Leopold II of Belgium, Jerry Lewis, Ken Livingstone, Lindsay Lohan, Emmanuel Macron, Mark the Apostle, Tony McCoy, Dmitry Medvedev, Josef Mengele, François Mitterrand, Dudley Moore, Mike Myers, Graham Nash, Alexei Navalny, Jack Nicklaus, Leonard Nimoy, Ian Paisley Sr, Sarah Palin, Arnold Palmer, Paul the Apostle, Lester Piggott, Plato, Pol Pot, Richard Pryor, Pythagoras, Kimi Räikkönen, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Russell, Sappho, Nicolas Sarkozy, Eduard Shevardnadze, Sable Starr, Nicola Sturgeon, Norman Tebbit, Geraint Thomas, Daley Thompson, Justin Timberlake, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Gore Vidal, Dionne Warwick, Tom Watson, Venus Williams, Ernie Wise and Boris Yeltsin.
That's quite an incredible and frankly ridiculous list of people of whom Google's Gemini couldn't find any search results. Perhaps Jeffrey Epstein''s released files, albeit heavily redacted, don't count as biographical work!
ENDNOTE 7: NAMES NOT RECOGNISED
There were a few cases, 50 in total, that Google's Gemini didn't recognise the name of the person I was searching for. For example, Gemini didn't recognise the names of John Williams and William Simmons the two founders of Florida's state capital, Tallahassee; Richard Marsh the founder of Britain's oldest brewery; George Jones the co-founder of The New York Times; Bill Grant of Foster Grant sunglasses' fame; Ivar 'Pop' Coulson the inventor of the milkshake, William Barnes the bookseller, and James Phillips the husband of Carrie Phillips who had a long-standing affair with his friend, the US President Warren G Harding.
I cannot explain why Google's Gemini didn't recognise these names given that their names are widely mentioned on the internet.
ENDNOTE 8: GOBBLEDYGOOK SEARCH FINDINGS
There were just over 100 searches that led to gobbledygook and even nonsensical findings. I could make no quantitative sense, given I was after numbers, of the following search results. For Alcibiades, it was “no surviving autobiographies†and “there are biographiesâ€; for Tony Benn, “11-volume autobiography†and “numerous biographiesâ€; for Alan Bennett, “one autobiographical memoirâ€, “multiple volumes of his diaries and memoirs†and “many books about his life and workâ€; for Jesus Christ, “four primary, canonical biographies†and “many booksâ€; for Jane Fonda, “at least two autobiographical books†and “a number of biographiesâ€; for Zsa Zsa Gabor, “at least three autobiographical books†and “several biographiesâ€; for Charlie George, “generally few or no widely published, mainstream autobiographiesâ€; for Herbert Hoover, “three volumes of his autobiography†and “many biographiesâ€; for Mikhail Kalashnikov, “four autobiographical books†and “many other biographiesâ€; for Henry Kissinger, “three volumes of memoirs†and “The number of biographies about him is highâ€; for Doris Lessing, “five autobiographical/memoir books†and “Numerous biographiesâ€; for Eddie Murphy, “no autobiographies ... but there are biographiesâ€; for Marie Osmond, “at least four autobiographies†and “there are biographical works about herâ€; for Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, “at least 14 volumes of his own published diaries/memoirs†and “numerous biographiesâ€; for Raphael, “a wealth of biographical materialâ€; for RuPaul, “two autobiographies/memoirs and two other non-fiction books that contain biographical elements†plus “other booksâ€; for Thomas the Apostle, “the number of biographies varies depending on what texts are consideredâ€; for Vitruvius, “Modern authors and historians have written biographiesâ€; for Alice Walker, “She has also written a memoir, and others have written full-length biographiesâ€; for Robbie Williams, “at least three autobiographical books†and “dozens of biographiesâ€; and for Tiger Woods, "at least four books that could be classified as autobiographies†and “several biographiesâ€.
And the biggest bit of gobbledygook I came across was for the good king Wenceslas I, the Duke of Bohemia, “at least four biographies, or hagiographies, written about Wenceslas I shortly after his death" and “no known autobiographies†but “More recent biographies and stories have been written about him over the centuries, but the original count refers to the earliest accountsâ€. This result is barely deserving of Good King Wenceslas!
Are you able to quantify any of these search results? I couldn't!
ENDNOTE 9: PEOPLE WITH COUNTLESS BOOKS
There were over 25 people searched for that Google's Gemini told me that countless books had been written about them. Ibn Ê¿AbbÄs, Marcus Aurelius, Li Bai, Honoré de Balzac, Winston Churchill, Confucius, Anatole France, Ivan the Terrible, Saint John the Baptist, Omar Khayyam, Virgin Mary, Molière, Benito Mussolini, Alexander Pushkin, King Rama IX, Peter Paul Rubens, Socrates, and Leonardo da Vinci were all on Gemini's 'I can't be bothered to count' list.
ENDNOTE 10 : PEOPLE WITH VAST, SUBSTANTIAL OR LARGE NUMBERS OF BOOKS
Google's Gemini gave me a list of the names of well over 20 people who had a vast, substantial or large number of books written about them. The list included Thomas Edison, Hermann Göring, Alexander Hamilton, Emma Hamilton, George Frideric Handel, Harry Houdini, John Paul Jones, Herman Melville, Paracelsus, Marquis de Sade, Richard Strauss and Margaret Thatcher.
All had to go because I don't know what vast, substantial or large means in terms of a number.
ENDNOTE 11: PEOPLE WITH NUMEROUS BOOKS
This was a big one. Amongst many others, numerous books have been written about, presented in surname alphabetical order wherever possible: Konrad Adenauer, Alexander the Great, Idi Amin, Hans Christian Andersen, Marie Antoinette, Mark Antony, Lance Armstrong, Louis Armstrong, Jane Austen, Charles Babbage, Seve Ballesteros, Ludwig van Beethoven, Otto von Bismarck, Simón BolÃvar, Sandro Botticelli, Marlon Brando, Bertolt Brecht, Emily Brontë, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Burns, Richard Burton, George H W Bush, George W Bush, Julius Caesar, Caligula, Al Capone, Andrew Carnegie, Jimmy Carter, Johnny Cash, Fidel Castro, Catherine the Great, William Caxton, Charlemagne, Geoffrey Chaucer, Kurt Cobain, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christopher Columbus, Copernicus, Hernán Cortés, Bing Crosby, Marie Curie, Salvador Dali, Charles Darwin, Doris Day, Bob Dylan, Charles de Gaulle, René Descartes, Marlene Dietrich, Christian Dior, Walt Disney, Donatello, Bob Dylan, Gustave Eiffel, Dwight D Eisenhower, T S Eliot, Queen Elizabeth I, Duke Ellington, Michael Faraday, Guy Fawkes, Alexander Fleming, Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Sigmund Freud, Clark Gable, Yuri Gagarin, Galileo Galilei, Mahatma Gandhi, Bill Gates, Greta Garbo, J Paul Getty, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ulysses S Grant, Hannibal, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Hawking, Ernest Hemingway, King Henry V, King Henry VIII, Audrey Hepburn, King Herod, Reinhard Heydrich, Robin Hood, Edward Hopper, Whitney Houston, Victor Hugo, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Henry James, King James I, Thomas Jefferson, Edward Jenner, Joan of Arc, Elton John, Samuel Johnson, Michael Jordan, Frida Kahlo, Grace Kelly, Jack Kerouac, John Maynard Keynes, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Stephen King, Gustav Klimt, Stanley Kubrick, John Lennon, C S Lewis, Roy Lichtenstein, Carl Linnaeus, David Lloyd George, Martin Luther, Niccolò Machiavelli, Norman Mailer, Nelson Mandela, Édouard Manet, Meghan Markle/Sussex, Karl Marx, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Paul McCartney, Freddie Mercury, Lionel Messi, John Stuart Mill, Glenn Miller, Henry Miller, Ho Chi Minh, Joni Mitchell, Montesquieu, Moses, Prophet Muhammad, Paul Newman, Isaac Newton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alfred Nobel, Nostradamus, Georgia O'Keeffe, J Robert Oppenheimer, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, George S Patton. Linus Pauling, Robert Peel, Pelé, Eva Perón, Pablo Picasso, Max Planck, Jackson Pollock, Giacomo Puccini, Walter Raleigh, Grigori Rasputin, Rembrandt, Cecil Rhodes, Maximilien Robespierre, Erwin Rommel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Babe Ruth, Vladimir Putin, Auguste Rodin, Gioachino Rossini, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Scorsese, Hailie Selassie I, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, O J Simpson, Britney Spears, John Steinbeck, James Stewart, Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Quentin Tarantino, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Mother Teresa, Nikola Tesla, Alexis de Tocqueville, J R R Tolkein, Leo Tolstoy, Harry S Truman, Harriet Tubman, Alan Turing, Tutankhamun, Mark Twain, Giuseppe Verdi, Virgil, Richard Wagner, Andy Warhol, George Washington, Muddy Waters, James Watt, John Wayne, H G Wells, Prince William, Tennessee Williams, William the Conqueror, Harold Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Oprah Winfrey, Frank Lloyd Wright, Malcolm X and Mao Zedong.
No apologies are offered for such a long list, 200 names in total. I wanted to make the point that Google's Gemini vague search results takes a lot of big names out of any quantitative ranking of people who have had the most books written about.
ENDNOTE 12: PEOPLE WITH MANY BOOKS
Google's Gemini told me that the following, for example, had many books written about them, presented in surname alphabetical order wherever possible: Kofi Annan, Yasser Arafat, Archimedes, Augustus (aka Octavian), Alexander Graham Bell, Osama bin Laden, Jorge Luis Borges, Hieronymus Bosch, David Bowie, Donald Bradman, Edmund Burke, Giacomo Casanova, Coco Chanel, Charlie Chaplin, Agatha Christie, Cleopatra VII, Bill Clinton, Constantine the Great, Oliver Cromwell, Roald Dahl, James Dean, Princess Diana, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Euclid, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Genghis Khan, George Gershwin, William Gladstone, Che Guevara, Johannes Gutenberg, J Edgar Hoover, Saddam Hussein, Judas Iscariot, Jesse James, Amy Johnson, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Harper Lee, Catherine de' Medici, Claude Monet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Florence Nightingale, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (the Shah of Iran), Marco Polo, Pontius Pilate, Rhazes, JalÄl al-DÄ«n Muḥammad RÅ«mÄ«, Nina Simone, Robert Louis Stevenson, Johann Strauss II, Josip Broz Tito, Amerigo Vespucci, Queen Victoria, Voltaire, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde and Deng Xiaoping.
There are some big names in this list!
ENDNOTE 13: PEOPLE WITH EXTENSIVE, SIGNIFICANT OR VARIOUS NUMBER OF BOOKS
People who had an extensive, significant or various number of books written about them, according to Google's Gemini, included: Aga Khan I, Michael Collins, Sean Combs, Noël Coward, Cyrus the Great, Vasco da Gama, Paul Gaugin, Terry Gilliam, Antonio Gramsci, Gustav Holst, Jahangir, Fiorello La Guardia, John Locke, Philip V of Spain, Cole Porter, Louis Renault, Peter Sellers, Ernest Shackleton, Joseph Smith and Titian.
All these names are out of the game!
ENDNOTE 14: PEOPLE WITH A NUMBER OF BOOKS
Less than helpfully when I asked Google's Gemini for the number of books written about people, it answered that a person has a number of books written about them. This occurred for just over 30 people, including Gordon Brown, Edwin Hubble, Jean Lafitte, Otis Redding, William Rehnquist, Hun Sen, Louis Vuitton and Henry Wood.
ENDNOTE 15: PEOPLE WITH SEVERAL BOOKS
Google's Gemini identified nearly 800 people who had several books written about them, including, presented in surname alphabetical order wherever possible, Neil Armstrong, Joan Baez, Brigitte Bardot, David Beckham, Chuck Berry, Jeff Bezos, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Tony Blair, Usain Bolt, Leonid Brezhnev, James Brown, Queen Camilla, Hugo Chávez, Davy Crockett, Johan Cruyff, Jacques Delors, Recep Erdoğan, Ella Fitzgerald, Ian Fleming, Marvin Gaye, Mikhail Gorbachev, Prince Harry, Hiawatha, Jesse Jackson, Steve Jobs, Magic Johnson, Janis Joplin, Nikita Khrushchev, Kim Jong Un, B B King, Calvin Klein, Virat Kohli, Sophia Loren, Steve McQueen, Golda Meir, George Michael, Jim Morrison, Elon Musk, Willie Nelson, Lee Harvey Oswald, Michael Schumacher, Adam Smith, George Soros, Tiberius, Max Weber, Orson Welles, Mae West, Robin Williams, Brian Wilson and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Because several can't be quantified, all of these names were thrown out of the game.
ENDNOTE 16: PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE BOOKS
Google's Gemini identified a lot of people with having a multitude or multiple books written about them. Its list included, presented in surname alphabetical order wherever possible, Gianni Agnelli, Woody Allen, Madame du Barry, Clara Bow, Eva Braun, George Clooney, Sebastian Coe, Elvis Costello, Tom Cruise, Emily Davison, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Roberto Durán, Chris Evert, Louis Farrakhan, Aretha Franklin, Milton Friedman, Jerry Garcia, Jean Paul Gaultier, Jane Goodall, Howard Hughes, W K Kellogg, Jeff Koons, Thomas Malthus, Rocky Marciano, Margaret Mead, Angela Merkel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Rudolf Nureyev, Bettie Paige, Dolly Parton, Robert Redford, Pete Sampras, Meryl Streep, Suharto, Patrick Swayze, Sachin Tendulkar, Leon Trotsky, Frank Winfield Woolworth and Zinedine Zidane.
All had to go in the name of quantification.
ENDNOTE 17: PEOPLE WITH FEW BOOKS
The following, amongst many others, were identified by Google's Gemini as having a few books written about them: Douglas Adams, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Tim Berners-Lee, Beyoncé, Mel Brooks, Captain Beefheart, Karen Carpenter, Nick Cave, Robert Cecil, Oscar De La Hoya, Lucian Freud, Liam Gallagher, Bill Haley, Don McLean, Neymar, King Radama I, Cyril Ramaphosa, Cristiano Ronaldo, J K Rowling and Barry White.
Such names had to be dispensed with in my reckoning.
I like the endnotes in alphabetical order.
@HornyBBW7233 I'm a bit of geek when it comes to alphabetical order!