Roger N. Shepard
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Roger N. Shepard was an influential American cognitive scientist and psychologist best known for his pioneering work on mental rotation, multidimensional scaling, and the study of mental representation and similarity.
All labels observed (1)
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| Roger N. Shepard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22177931 — 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: Roger N. Shepard Context triple: [Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition, hasRecipient, Roger N. Shepard]
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A.
Stephen Kosslyn
Stephen Kosslyn is a cognitive neuroscientist known for his influential research on mental imagery, visual cognition, and the neural basis of visual perception.
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B.
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider was an influential American neuroscientist known for her pioneering work on the functional organization of the visual cortex and the distinction between dorsal and ventral visual processing streams.
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C.
Lee M. E. Morin
Lee M. E. Morin is a U.S. Navy physician and NASA astronaut who flew aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-110 mission to the International Space Station.
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D.
George T. Miller
George T. Miller was an Australian film and television director known for family-oriented movies such as "The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter" and "Zeus and Roxanne."
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E.
Donald Broadbent
Donald Broadbent was a pioneering British experimental psychologist best known for his influential work on attention and human information processing.
- 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: Roger N. Shepard Target entity description: Roger N. Shepard was an influential American cognitive scientist and psychologist best known for his pioneering work on mental rotation, multidimensional scaling, and the study of mental representation and similarity.
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A.
Stephen Kosslyn
Stephen Kosslyn is a cognitive neuroscientist known for his influential research on mental imagery, visual cognition, and the neural basis of visual perception.
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B.
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider was an influential American neuroscientist known for her pioneering work on the functional organization of the visual cortex and the distinction between dorsal and ventral visual processing streams.
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C.
Lee M. E. Morin
Lee M. E. Morin is a U.S. Navy physician and NASA astronaut who flew aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-110 mission to the International Space Station.
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D.
George T. Miller
George T. Miller was an Australian film and television director known for family-oriented movies such as "The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter" and "Zeus and Roxanne."
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E.
Donald Broadbent
Donald Broadbent was a pioneering British experimental psychologist best known for his influential work on attention and human information processing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.