Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is a 2005 non-fiction book by Jared Diamond that analyzes why past and present societies have collapsed or survived, focusing on environmental and societal factors.
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| Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed canonical | 4 |
| Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T307832 — 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)
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Target entity: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Context triple: [Jared Diamond, notableWork, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed]
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A.
The Shock Doctrine
The Shock Doctrine is a 2007 non-fiction book by Naomi Klein that argues global free-market policies have often been imposed through crises and disasters, a process she terms “disaster capitalism.”
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a widely influential book by Jared Diamond that explores how geography, environment, and the distribution of domesticable plants and animals shaped the unequal development of human societies.
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C.
The City That Works
"The City That Works" is a civic motto highlighting Portland, Oregon’s reputation for effective local governance, urban planning, and livability.
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D.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson that argues for the unification of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities into a single, coherent framework of knowledge.
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E.
Triumph of the Market
Triumph of the Market is a critical work by economist and media analyst Edward S. Herman that examines the social and political consequences of neoliberal, market-driven policies.
- 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: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Target entity description: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is a 2005 non-fiction book by Jared Diamond that analyzes why past and present societies have collapsed or survived, focusing on environmental and societal factors.
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A.
The Shock Doctrine
The Shock Doctrine is a 2007 non-fiction book by Naomi Klein that argues global free-market policies have often been imposed through crises and disasters, a process she terms “disaster capitalism.”
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B.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a widely influential book by Jared Diamond that explores how geography, environment, and the distribution of domesticable plants and animals shaped the unequal development of human societies.
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C.
The City That Works
"The City That Works" is a civic motto highlighting Portland, Oregon’s reputation for effective local governance, urban planning, and livability.
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D.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson that argues for the unification of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities into a single, coherent framework of knowledge.
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E.
Triumph of the Market
Triumph of the Market is a critical work by economist and media analyst Edward S. Herman that examines the social and political consequences of neoliberal, market-driven policies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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| instanceOf |
non-fiction book
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popular science book ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
explain why some societies collapse
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explain why some societies survive ⓘ |
| author | Jared Diamond ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| follows | Guns, Germs, and Steel ⓘ |
| genre |
environmental history
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history ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
audiobook edition
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hardcover edition ⓘ paperback edition ⓘ |
| hasPart |
case study of Easter Island
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case study of modern Australia ⓘ case study of modern China ⓘ case study of modern Haiti and the Dominican Republic ⓘ case study of modern Montana ⓘ case study of modern Rwanda ⓘ case study of the Anasazi ⓘ case study of the Maya civilization ⓘ case study of the Norse in Greenland ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
anthropology
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archaeology ⓘ environmental science ⓘ geography ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainConcept |
climate change as a factor in collapse
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hostile neighbors as a factor in collapse ⓘ interaction between environment and society ⓘ loss of trading partners as a factor in collapse ⓘ role of environmental damage in collapse ⓘ societal responses to environmental problems ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableIdea | five-point framework for societal collapse ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| publisher |
The Viking Press
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surface form:
Viking Press
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| relatedWork |
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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The World Until Yesterday ⓘ |
| subject |
comparative history
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ecology ⓘ environmental degradation ⓘ resource management ⓘ societal collapse ⓘ sustainability ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general readership
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students of environmental studies ⓘ students of history ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
ancient societies
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medieval societies ⓘ modern societies ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
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Subject: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Description of subject: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is a 2005 non-fiction book by Jared Diamond that analyzes why past and present societies have collapsed or survived, focusing on environmental and societal factors.
Referenced by (5)
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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relatedWork
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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subject surface form:
Jared Diamond
this entity surface form:
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive