The Stuff of Thought
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The Stuff of Thought is a book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores how language reveals the nature of human thought, emotion, and social relationships.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Stuff of Thought canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1726331 — 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: The Stuff of Thought Context triple: [Steven Pinker, notableWork, The Stuff of Thought]
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A.
How the Mind Works
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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B.
Words and Rules
Words and Rules is a book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores how the human mind processes language, particularly the interplay between memorized words and grammatical rules.
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C.
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.
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D.
Language and Mind
Language and Mind is a collection of influential essays by Noam Chomsky that explores the nature of language, human cognition, and their implications for philosophy and psychology.
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E.
The Language Instinct
The Language Instinct is a popular science book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that argues humans are born with an innate capacity for language, exploring how language develops, functions, and evolves.
- 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 Stuff of Thought Target entity description: The Stuff of Thought is a book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores how language reveals the nature of human thought, emotion, and social relationships.
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A.
How the Mind Works
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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B.
Words and Rules
Words and Rules is a book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores how the human mind processes language, particularly the interplay between memorized words and grammatical rules.
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C.
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.
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D.
Language and Mind
Language and Mind is a collection of influential essays by Noam Chomsky that explores the nature of language, human cognition, and their implications for philosophy and psychology.
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E.
The Language Instinct
The Language Instinct is a popular science book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that argues humans are born with an innate capacity for language, exploring how language develops, functions, and evolves.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Steven Pinker ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | Viking design department ⓘ |
| explores |
how language encodes emotion
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how language reflects human thought ⓘ how language structures social interaction ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Better Angels of Our Nature ⓘ |
| genre |
cognitive science
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popular science ⓘ psycholinguistics ⓘ |
| hasDeweyDecimalClassification | 401 ⓘ |
| hasLibraryOfCongressClassification | P106.P56 ⓘ |
| hasOclcNumber | 122261268 ⓘ |
| hasSubjectCategory |
Cognition and language
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Language and languages—Philosophy ⓘ Thought and thinking ⓘ |
| isbn10 | 0670063274 ⓘ |
| isbn13 | 9780670063277 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainThesis | patterns in language reveal underlying structures of human nature ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of profanity and taboo words
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application of cognitive science to ordinary speech ⓘ discussion of naming and reference ⓘ treatment of metaphor in everyday language ⓘ |
| pageCount | 512 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Steven Pinker popular science books ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Blank Slate ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| publisher |
The Viking Press
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surface form:
Viking Press
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| subject |
emotion
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human cognition ⓘ indirect speech ⓘ language and thought ⓘ metaphor ⓘ names ⓘ semantics ⓘ social relationships ⓘ swearing ⓘ |
| subtitle | Language as a Window into Human Nature ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general readers
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students of linguistics ⓘ 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: The Stuff of Thought Description of subject: The Stuff of Thought is a book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores how language reveals the nature of human thought, emotion, and social relationships.
Referenced by (1)
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