Given a factoid/trivia type question, generate the topic of the question. The topic is the entity the question talks about.

[EX Q]: Name Shakespeare play Ariel, Miranda and Prospero appear?
[EX A]: ariel

[EX Q]: Food writer and critic Egon Ronay, who died in 2010, was born in what country, which offers a food related pun?
[EX A]: egon ronay

[EX Q]: Which 19th century American author went to sea aged 17 in a whaler, deserted twice, was captured by cannibals and joined a man of war before writing novels such as White Jacket and Billy Budd?
[EX A]:
billy budd