How the Mind Works
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How the Mind Works is a popular science book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores human thought and behavior through the lenses of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| How the Mind Works canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1726328 — 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: How the Mind Works Context triple: [Steven Pinker, notableWork, How the Mind Works]
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A.
How to Create a Mind
"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
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B.
The Emotion Machine
The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
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C.
book The Elephant in the Brain
The Elephant in the Brain is a non-fiction book that explores the hidden, often self-serving motives behind human behavior and social institutions.
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D.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
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E.
How We Think
How We Think is a foundational philosophical and educational work by John Dewey that analyzes the nature of reflective thought and its role in effective learning and problem-solving.
- 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: How the Mind Works Target entity description: How the Mind Works is a popular science book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores human thought and behavior through the lenses of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
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A.
How to Create a Mind
"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
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B.
The Emotion Machine
The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
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C.
book The Elephant in the Brain
The Elephant in the Brain is a non-fiction book that explores the hidden, often self-serving motives behind human behavior and social institutions.
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D.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
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E.
How We Think
How We Think is a foundational philosophical and educational work by John Dewey that analyzes the nature of reflective thought and its role in effective learning and problem-solving.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ popular science book ⓘ |
| author | Steven Pinker ⓘ |
| award |
Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist
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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction finalist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
mind as information-processing system
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modular view of mental faculties ⓘ |
| explains | mental mechanisms in evolutionary terms ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Blank Slate ⓘ |
| genre |
cognitive science literature
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evolutionary psychology literature ⓘ popular science ⓘ |
| hasAuthorProfession |
cognitive scientist
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psycholinguist ⓘ psychologist ⓘ |
| hasPart | chapters ⓘ |
| hasReception |
controversy in academic psychology
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critical acclaim ⓘ |
| influenced |
debates on evolutionary psychology
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public understanding of cognitive science ⓘ |
| isbn | 978-0-393-04535-2 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
integrating cognitive science and evolutionary theory
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popularizing evolutionary psychology ⓘ |
| pageCount | 660 ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Language Instinct ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| publisher | W. W. Norton & Company ⓘ |
| subject |
cognitive science
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consciousness ⓘ emotion ⓘ evolution of mind ⓘ evolutionary psychology ⓘ human behavior ⓘ human cognition ⓘ human mind ⓘ language ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ reasoning ⓘ social behavior ⓘ vision ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general readers
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readers of popular science ⓘ students of psychology ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: How the Mind Works Description of subject: How the Mind Works is a popular science book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores human thought and behavior through the lenses of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.