C. Lloyd Morgan
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C. Lloyd Morgan was a British psychologist and ethologist best known for formulating "Morgan's Canon," a foundational principle in comparative psychology that cautions against attributing higher mental processes to animals when simpler explanations suffice.
All labels observed (2)
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| Lloyd Morgan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18783561 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: C. Lloyd Morgan Context triple: [Morgan, hasNotableBearer, C. Lloyd Morgan]
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George R. Poulton
George R. Poulton was a 19th-century English-born American composer best known for writing the melody later adapted into the song "Love Me Tender."
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Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt was an Austrian ethologist regarded as a founder of human ethology, known for his pioneering research on innate human behavior and cross-cultural studies of nonverbal communication.
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C.
E. T. Kingsley
E. T. Kingsley was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian socialist and labor activist known for his influential role in Marxist political organizing and education.
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D.
Frank Thorndike
Frank Thorndike was a British actor and the brother of renowned stage actress Sybil Thorndike.
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E.
Murray Sidman
Murray Sidman was an American behavioral psychologist best known for his pioneering work in experimental analysis of behavior and the development of the Sidman avoidance procedure.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: C. Lloyd Morgan Target entity description: C. Lloyd Morgan was a British psychologist and ethologist best known for formulating "Morgan's Canon," a foundational principle in comparative psychology that cautions against attributing higher mental processes to animals when simpler explanations suffice.
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A.
George R. Poulton
George R. Poulton was a 19th-century English-born American composer best known for writing the melody later adapted into the song "Love Me Tender."
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B.
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt was an Austrian ethologist regarded as a founder of human ethology, known for his pioneering research on innate human behavior and cross-cultural studies of nonverbal communication.
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C.
E. T. Kingsley
E. T. Kingsley was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian socialist and labor activist known for his influential role in Marxist political organizing and education.
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D.
Frank Thorndike
Frank Thorndike was a British actor and the brother of renowned stage actress Sybil Thorndike.
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E.
Murray Sidman
Murray Sidman was an American behavioral psychologist best known for his pioneering work in experimental analysis of behavior and the development of the Sidman avoidance procedure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: C. Lloyd Morgan