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    "schema": "prokopton42-public-thinker-v1",
    "id": "napoleon_hill",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/napoleon-hill/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Napoleon Hill",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "A major voice in American success literature, Napoleon Hill turns a chosen purpose into a written plan, a working alliance, repeated decision and persistent action. His method is influential, but its promises of wealth and famous origin stories call for critical reading.",
    "body": "Napoleon Hill died in 1970.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "1883-1970",
        "era": "Early twentieth century",
        "distance": "56–143 years ago",
        "age_at_death": 87
    },
    "intellectual_tradition": {
        "id": "personal-achievement",
        "name": "Personal achievement thought",
        "detail": "American personal achievement writing",
        "labels": [
            "Personal achievement thought",
            "American personal achievement writing"
        ]
    },
    "historical_cutoff": {
        "year": 1970,
        "display": "1970 CE",
        "reason": "Napoleon Hill died in 1970."
    },
    "statistics": {
        "works": 2,
        "passages": 1603,
        "languages": [
            "en",
            "fr"
        ],
        "intellectual_exposures": 2,
        "typed_relationships": 1
    },
    "attested_thinker_encounters": [],
    "places": [
        {
            "name": "Pound, Virginia",
            "period": "1883",
            "description": "Institutionally reported birthplace in Wise County. Exact coordinates identify the town, not a verified building.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.naphill.org/napoleon-hill/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Washington, D.C.",
            "period": "1918",
            "description": "The Foundation biography reports that Hill worked in Washington during the Wilson administration. This is a partisan institutional account, so the visit is mapped with low confidence.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://www.naphill.org/uncategorized/ezine-875-10-20-23/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Chicago, Illinois",
            "period": "about 1917",
            "description": "The Foundation archive identifies Hill as an instructor at the George Washington Institute in Chicago, teaching advertising and sales.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.naphill.org/shop/books/paperback/the-first-writings-of-napoleon-hill-truthful-living/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Salem, West Virginia",
            "period": "1922 and 1957",
            "description": "The Foundation records Hill delivering Salem University commencement addresses in 1922 and 1957.",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_url": "https://www.naphill.org/ezine/ezine-958-may-16-25/"
        }
    ],
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}