The Ethical Primate
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The Ethical Primate is a philosophical work by Mary Midgley that explores human nature, morality, and our evolutionary roots to challenge simplistic views of ethics and human behavior.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19865312 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Ethical Primate Context triple: [Mary Midgley, notableWork, The Ethical Primate]
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The Mentality of Apes
The Mentality of Apes is a landmark 1917 work of comparative psychology in which Wolfgang Köhler documents insightful problem-solving and intelligence in chimpanzees, challenging earlier behaviorist views of animal learning.
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Our Inner Ape
Our Inner Ape is a popular science book by primatologist Frans de Waal that explores human behavior and morality through comparisons with our closest primate relatives.
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The Smartest Monkeys
The Smartest Monkeys is a song by the British rock band XTC, known for its satirical lyrics about human behavior and society.
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The Soul of the Ape
The Soul of the Ape is a pioneering early 20th-century work of animal psychology and ethology in which Eugène Marais explores the behavior and inner life of primates.
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The Ethical Project
The Ethical Project is a philosophical work by Philip Kitcher that develops a naturalistic, evolutionary account of ethics as a collective human endeavor shaped over time to address social problems.
- 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: The Ethical Primate Target entity description: The Ethical Primate is a philosophical work by Mary Midgley that explores human nature, morality, and our evolutionary roots to challenge simplistic views of ethics and human behavior.
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A.
The Mentality of Apes
The Mentality of Apes is a landmark 1917 work of comparative psychology in which Wolfgang Köhler documents insightful problem-solving and intelligence in chimpanzees, challenging earlier behaviorist views of animal learning.
-
B.
Our Inner Ape
Our Inner Ape is a popular science book by primatologist Frans de Waal that explores human behavior and morality through comparisons with our closest primate relatives.
-
C.
The Smartest Monkeys
The Smartest Monkeys is a song by the British rock band XTC, known for its satirical lyrics about human behavior and society.
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D.
The Soul of the Ape
The Soul of the Ape is a pioneering early 20th-century work of animal psychology and ethology in which Eugène Marais explores the behavior and inner life of primates.
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E.
The Ethical Project
The Ethical Project is a philosophical work by Philip Kitcher that develops a naturalistic, evolutionary account of ethics as a collective human endeavor shaped over time to address social problems.
- F. None of above. chosen
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