Authentic Happiness
E420594
Authentic Happiness is a popular positive psychology book by Martin Seligman that explores how cultivating strengths, meaning, and positive emotions can lead to lasting well-being.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Authentic Happiness canonical | 4 |
| Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4190571 — 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: Authentic Happiness Context triple: [Martin Seligman, notableWork, Authentic Happiness]
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A.
The Business of Happiness
The Business of Happiness is a book by entrepreneur and sports team owner Ted Leonsis that blends memoir and business advice to argue that true success comes from pursuing happiness, meaning, and service to others alongside financial achievement.
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The Art of Happiness
The Art of Happiness is a popular self-help and spiritual book that presents the Dalai Lama’s practical philosophy on cultivating lasting happiness through compassion, inner peace, and mental training.
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C.
Take Up a Course in Happiness
"Take Up a Course in Happiness" is a song featured on Stevie Wonder’s 1970 album "Where I’m Coming From."
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A Compass to Fulfillment
A Compass to Fulfillment is a philosophical and business ethics book by Japanese entrepreneur Kazuo Inamori that offers guidance on living a meaningful, principled, and successful life.
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Life Is What You Make It: Finding Your Own Path to Fulfillment
Life Is What You Make It: Finding Your Own Path to Fulfillment is a reflective self-help and memoir-style book by Peter Buffett that explores personal values, purpose, and redefining success beyond wealth and privilege.
- 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: Authentic Happiness Target entity description: Authentic Happiness is a popular positive psychology book by Martin Seligman that explores how cultivating strengths, meaning, and positive emotions can lead to lasting well-being.
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A.
The Business of Happiness
The Business of Happiness is a book by entrepreneur and sports team owner Ted Leonsis that blends memoir and business advice to argue that true success comes from pursuing happiness, meaning, and service to others alongside financial achievement.
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B.
The Art of Happiness
The Art of Happiness is a popular self-help and spiritual book that presents the Dalai Lama’s practical philosophy on cultivating lasting happiness through compassion, inner peace, and mental training.
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C.
Take Up a Course in Happiness
"Take Up a Course in Happiness" is a song featured on Stevie Wonder’s 1970 album "Where I’m Coming From."
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D.
A Compass to Fulfillment
A Compass to Fulfillment is a philosophical and business ethics book by Japanese entrepreneur Kazuo Inamori that offers guidance on living a meaningful, principled, and successful life.
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E.
Life Is What You Make It: Finding Your Own Path to Fulfillment
Life Is What You Make It: Finding Your Own Path to Fulfillment is a reflective self-help and memoir-style book by Peter Buffett that explores personal values, purpose, and redefining success beyond wealth and privilege.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ positive psychology book ⓘ psychology book ⓘ |
| advocates |
building positive relationships
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gratitude practices ⓘ optimistic thinking ⓘ using personal strengths in daily life ⓘ |
| aimsTo | increase lasting well-being ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
positive psychology movement
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linked to:
positive psychology
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| author |
Martin E. P. Seligman
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linked to:
Martin Seligman
Martin Seligman ⓘ |
| field |
clinical psychology
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positive psychology ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cultivating meaning
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cultivating positive emotions ⓘ cultivating strengths ⓘ |
| genre |
positive psychology
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self-help ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
authentic happiness
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engagement ⓘ meaning ⓘ pleasure ⓘ |
| hasForm | printed book ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
life satisfaction enhancement
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optimism ⓘ personal growth ⓘ resilience ⓘ |
| influencedBy | research in positive psychology ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general readers
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mental health professionals ⓘ students of psychology ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
character strengths
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happiness ⓘ life satisfaction ⓘ meaning in life ⓘ positive emotions ⓘ well-being ⓘ |
| notableFor |
emphasis on measurable happiness
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linking strengths and well-being ⓘ popularizing positive psychology concepts ⓘ |
| proposes |
measurement of happiness
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use of psychological tests to assess strengths ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Flourish
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Learned Optimism ⓘ |
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: Authentic Happiness Description of subject: Authentic Happiness is a popular positive psychology book by Martin Seligman that explores how cultivating strengths, meaning, and positive emotions can lead to lasting well-being.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
PERMA model of well-being
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describedIn
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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being
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linked to: Authentic Happiness