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Greatest authors

Prompt, in fullWhat are the ten greatest authors of all time? Rank them. Give a brief reason for each.

56 of 59

models named William Shakespeare as their first pick · each model counted once, by its most frequent named answer

Next came Homer with 3.

William Shakespeare56
Homer3
Every model’s answer (59)
ModelAnswerReplies
Claude 3 HaikuWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Claude Haiku 4.5William Shakespeare1 of 1
Claude Sonnet 5William Shakespeare2 of 2
DeepSeek Chat V3 0324William Shakespeare2 of 2
DeepSeek Chat V3.1William Shakespeare2 of 2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70bWilliam Shakespeare1 of 1
DeepSeek V3.2William Shakespeare2 of 2
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423William Shakespeare2 of 2
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731William Shakespeare1 of 1
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
GLM 4.5 AirWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
GLM 4.7 FlashWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
GPT OSS 20bWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
GPT-4o MiniWilliam Shakespeare1 of 1
GPT-5.6 TerraWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Gemini 3.1 ProWilliam Shakespeare1 of 1
Gemma 3 27b ItWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Gemma 3 4BWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Grok 4.6William Shakespeare2 of 2
Hermes 3 70B InstructWilliam Shakespeare1 of 1
Hunyuan 3William Shakespeare2 of 2
Hunyuan A13B InstructWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Llama 3.1 8B InstructWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Llama 3.1 Euryale 70B v2.2William Shakespeare2 of 2
Llama 3.3 70BWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Llama 4 MaverickWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Mercury 2William Shakespeare2 of 2
MiniMax M2William Shakespeare2 of 2
Minimax M2.1William Shakespeare2 of 2
Ministral 14b 2512William Shakespeare2 of 2
Ministral 3 3B 2512William Shakespeare2 of 2
Ministral 3 8B 2512William Shakespeare2 of 2
Mistral NemoWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Mistral Small 3William Shakespeare2 of 2
Mistral Small 3.2 24b InstructWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Muse Glimmer 30BWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
MythoMax 13BWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Nemotron 3 SuperWilliam Shakespeare1 of 1
Nemotron 3.5William Shakespeare2 of 2
Nova Lite 1.0William Shakespeare2 of 2
Nova MicroWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Phi-4William Shakespeare1 of 1
Qwen 2.5 72b InstructWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Qwen 2.5 7b InstructWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Qwen3 14bWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Qwen3 235b A22b 2507William Shakespeare2 of 2
Qwen3 30b A3bWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Qwen3 Next 80b A3b InstructWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Qwen3 VL 235b A22b InstructWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Qwen3 VL 30b A3b InstructWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
ReMM SLERP 13BWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Skyfall 36b V2William Shakespeare2 of 2
UncensoredWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
UnslopNemo 12BWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Weaver (alpha)William Shakespeare2 of 2
WizardLM-2 8x22BWilliam Shakespeare2 of 2
Kimi K2Homer1 of 1
Ling 3.0 FlashHomer2 of 2
Qwen3 32BHomer2 of 2

Asked 9 times

Each line is one recorded run with its own chart. The number above combines them; a wording is printed when it differs from the prompt at the top.

Wording B, run 1 of 6Rank the ten greatest authors of all time. Give a brief reason for each.William Shakespeare · 31 of 31
Wording B, run 2 of 6Rank the ten greatest authors of all time. Give a brief reason for each.William Shakespeare · 19 of 21
Wording B, run 6 of 6Rank the ten greatest authors of all time. Give a brief reason for each.William Shakespeare · 2 of 3
Wording A, run 3 of 3William Shakespeare · 2 of 2
Wording A, run 1 of 3William Shakespeare · 1 of 1
Wording A, run 2 of 3William Shakespeare · 1 of 1
Wording B, run 3 of 6Rank the ten greatest authors of all time. Give a brief reason for each.William Shakespeare · 1 of 1
Wording B, run 4 of 6Rank the ten greatest authors of all time. Give a brief reason for each.William Shakespeare · 1 of 1
Wording B, run 5 of 6Rank the ten greatest authors of all time. Give a brief reason for each.William Shakespeare · 1 of 1

In their words

“Here's a ranking — inherently subjective, but based on influence, innovation, and lasting impact on world literature: 1.”

Anthropic · Claude Sonnet 5 · William Shakespeare

“A defensible, necessarily subjective top ten—weighted for artistic achievement, influence, range, and endurance: 1. William Shakespeare — The supreme dramatist in any language: psychologically profound, verbally unmatched, and endlessly adaptable.”

OpenAI · GPT-5.6 Terra · William Shakespeare

“Identifying the "greatest" authors of all time is highly subjective, as literary greatness depends on cultural backgrounds, historical contexts, and personal perspectives.”

Google · Gemini 3.1 Pro · William Shakespeare

“**William Shakespeare, Homer, Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Murasaki Shikibu (in that order).”

xAI · Grok 4.6 · William Shakespeare
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