“An American Indian Model of the Universe”
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“An American Indian Model of the Universe” is an essay by Benjamin Lee Whorf that explores how Hopi cosmology and language reflect a distinct conception of time, space, and reality.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21623439 — 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: “An American Indian Model of the Universe” Context triple: [Language, Thought, and Reality, hasPart, “An American Indian Model of the Universe”]
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Traditional Literatures of the American Indian
Traditional Literatures of the American Indian is a scholarly work that examines and interprets Native American oral traditions, myths, and narratives within their cultural and historical contexts.
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Ho-Chunk cosmology
Ho-Chunk cosmology is the traditional Native American worldview of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) people, encompassing their creation stories, spiritual beings, and sacred relationships between humans, nature, and the spirit world.
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C.
How Natives Think
"How Natives Think" is an early 20th-century anthropological and philosophical study by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl that controversially argues so-called "primitive" societies possess a fundamentally different, more mystical mode of thought than Western rationalism.
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D.
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions is a groundbreaking work of Native American literary and cultural criticism that re-centers Indigenous women’s roles and feminist perspectives within tribal traditions and worldviews.
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E.
Kogi cosmology
Kogi cosmology is the traditional spiritual and philosophical worldview of the Kogi people of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, emphasizing the sacred balance between humans, nature, and the universe.
- 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: “An American Indian Model of the Universe” Target entity description: “An American Indian Model of the Universe” is an essay by Benjamin Lee Whorf that explores how Hopi cosmology and language reflect a distinct conception of time, space, and reality.
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A.
Traditional Literatures of the American Indian
Traditional Literatures of the American Indian is a scholarly work that examines and interprets Native American oral traditions, myths, and narratives within their cultural and historical contexts.
-
B.
Ho-Chunk cosmology
Ho-Chunk cosmology is the traditional Native American worldview of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) people, encompassing their creation stories, spiritual beings, and sacred relationships between humans, nature, and the spirit world.
-
C.
How Natives Think
"How Natives Think" is an early 20th-century anthropological and philosophical study by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl that controversially argues so-called "primitive" societies possess a fundamentally different, more mystical mode of thought than Western rationalism.
-
D.
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions is a groundbreaking work of Native American literary and cultural criticism that re-centers Indigenous women’s roles and feminist perspectives within tribal traditions and worldviews.
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E.
Kogi cosmology
Kogi cosmology is the traditional spiritual and philosophical worldview of the Kogi people of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, emphasizing the sacred balance between humans, nature, and the universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
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