the power of context
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"The power of context" is a key idea from Malcolm Gladwell’s *The Tipping Point* that argues small, often unnoticed features of the environment can strongly shape human behavior and trigger large social changes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| the power of context canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3675772 — 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 power of context Context triple: [The Tipping Point, hasConcept, the power of context]
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Word and Object
"Word and Object" is a seminal 1960 work of analytic philosophy by W.V.O. Quine that develops his views on meaning, reference, and the indeterminacy of translation.
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B.
Goodbye to Language
Goodbye to Language is a 2014 experimental 3D film by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard that explores fractured communication, perception, and the limits of cinema through a fragmented, essay-like narrative.
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C.
How to Do Things with Words
How to Do Things with Words is a foundational work in 20th-century philosophy of language by J. L. Austin that introduced speech act theory and transformed understandings of how language functions in practice.
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D.
The Dream of a Common Language
The Dream of a Common Language is a landmark 1978 poetry collection by Adrienne Rich that explores feminist, lesbian, and political themes through formally innovative and emotionally intense verse.
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E.
The Meaning of Meaning
The Meaning of Meaning is a seminal 1923 work in semantics and the philosophy of language by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards that explores how language, symbols, and thought are related.
- 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 power of context Target entity description: "The power of context" is a key idea from Malcolm Gladwell’s *The Tipping Point* that argues small, often unnoticed features of the environment can strongly shape human behavior and trigger large social changes.
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A.
Word and Object
"Word and Object" is a seminal 1960 work of analytic philosophy by W.V.O. Quine that develops his views on meaning, reference, and the indeterminacy of translation.
-
B.
Goodbye to Language
Goodbye to Language is a 2014 experimental 3D film by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard that explores fractured communication, perception, and the limits of cinema through a fragmented, essay-like narrative.
-
C.
How to Do Things with Words
How to Do Things with Words is a foundational work in 20th-century philosophy of language by J. L. Austin that introduced speech act theory and transformed understandings of how language functions in practice.
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D.
The Dream of a Common Language
The Dream of a Common Language is a landmark 1978 poetry collection by Adrienne Rich that explores feminist, lesbian, and political themes through formally innovative and emotionally intense verse.
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E.
The Meaning of Meaning
The Meaning of Meaning is a seminal 1923 work in semantics and the philosophy of language by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards that explores how language, symbols, and thought are related.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concept
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idea in The Tipping Point ⓘ social psychology concept ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
consumer behavior
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crime rates ⓘ organizational culture ⓘ public health behaviors ⓘ social norms ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
broken windows theory
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tipping points in social epidemics ⓘ |
| author | Malcolm Gladwell ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | dispositional explanations of behavior ⓘ |
| coreClaim |
behavior is sensitive to environmental cues
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seemingly minor contextual changes can trigger large social changes ⓘ situational factors can outweigh individual character traits ⓘ small features of the environment can strongly shape human behavior ⓘ |
| critiquedFor |
simplifying complex social dynamics
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underemphasizing individual agency ⓘ |
| describedIn | The Tipping Point ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
importance of immediate surroundings in shaping actions
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role of small environmental cues ⓘ |
| field |
behavioral science
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social psychology ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| goal | explain how small environmental changes can create tipping points ⓘ |
| hasExample |
New York City crime decline in the 1990s
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effects of graffiti and disorder on crime ⓘ subway fare evasion enforcement in New York City ⓘ |
| influenced |
management and leadership literature
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popular discussions of behavioral economics ⓘ public policy design discourse ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
broken windows theory of crime
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social psychology experiments on situational effects ⓘ |
| partOf | The Tipping Point ⓘ |
| perspective | situationalist view of behavior ⓘ |
| popularizedIn | early 2000s ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
choice architecture
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environmental psychology ⓘ nudging ⓘ situational attribution ⓘ social contagion ⓘ |
| usedAs |
framework for behavior change strategies
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framework for policy interventions ⓘ framework for urban design decisions ⓘ |
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 power of context Description of subject: "The power of context" is a key idea from Malcolm Gladwell’s *The Tipping Point* that argues small, often unnoticed features of the environment can strongly shape human behavior and trigger large social changes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.