Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
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The Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition is an interdisciplinary research institute directed by Douglas Hofstadter that investigates human thought, analogy-making, and the nature of cognition and concepts.
All labels observed (1)
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| Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1924149 — 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: Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition Context triple: [Douglas Hofstadter, hasResearchCenter, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition]
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MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
The MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences is an interdisciplinary academic department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dedicated to understanding the brain and mind through neuroscience, cognitive science, and computational approaches.
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is a leading research institute in Nijmegen, Netherlands, dedicated to the scientific study of how language is produced, understood, and learned.
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Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
The Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University is a leading research and teaching department known for its strengths in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and interdisciplinary collaborations across fields such as computer science and human-computer interaction.
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Harvard Center for Brain Science
The Harvard Center for Brain Science is a multidisciplinary research center at Harvard University dedicated to advancing understanding of the brain and nervous system through collaborative neuroscience research and education.
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Department of Life and Cognitive Sciences
The Department of Life and Cognitive Sciences is an academic unit at the University of Tokyo that focuses on interdisciplinary research and education in biological and cognitive sciences.
- 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: Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition Target entity description: The Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition is an interdisciplinary research institute directed by Douglas Hofstadter that investigates human thought, analogy-making, and the nature of cognition and concepts.
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A.
MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
The MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences is an interdisciplinary academic department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dedicated to understanding the brain and mind through neuroscience, cognitive science, and computational approaches.
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B.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is a leading research institute in Nijmegen, Netherlands, dedicated to the scientific study of how language is produced, understood, and learned.
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C.
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
The Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University is a leading research and teaching department known for its strengths in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and interdisciplinary collaborations across fields such as computer science and human-computer interaction.
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Harvard Center for Brain Science
The Harvard Center for Brain Science is a multidisciplinary research center at Harvard University dedicated to advancing understanding of the brain and nervous system through collaborative neuroscience research and education.
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E.
Department of Life and Cognitive Sciences
The Department of Life and Cognitive Sciences is an academic unit at the University of Tokyo that focuses on interdisciplinary research and education in biological and cognitive sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
cognitive science research center
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interdisciplinary research center ⓘ research institute ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University
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Indiana University ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Douglas Hofstadter ⓘ |
| field |
artificial intelligence
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cognitive psychology ⓘ cognitive science ⓘ computer science ⓘ linguistics ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
analogy-making
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computer modeling of cognition ⓘ concept formation ⓘ creative thinking ⓘ high-level perception ⓘ human thought ⓘ nature of cognition ⓘ representation of concepts ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Douglas Hofstadter ⓘ |
| hasMember | Douglas Hofstadter ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bloomington, Indiana
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surface form:
Bloomington
Indiana ⓘ Indiana University ⓘ
surface form:
Indiana University Bloomington
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| notableResearchArea |
analogy-based reasoning
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conceptual slippage ⓘ models of creativity ⓘ symbolic and sub-symbolic representations ⓘ |
| researchMethod |
computational modeling
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interdisciplinary collaboration ⓘ psychological experiments ⓘ theoretical analysis ⓘ |
| website | https://cogs.indiana.edu/ ⓘ |
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: Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition Description of subject: The Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition is an interdisciplinary research institute directed by Douglas Hofstadter that investigates human thought, analogy-making, and the nature of cognition and concepts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.