James George Frazer
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James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist best known for his comparative study of religion and mythology in his seminal work "The Golden Bough."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James George Frazer canonical | 4 |
| James Frazer | 1 |
| Sir James George Frazer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4898513 — 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: James George Frazer Context triple: [Andrew Lang, influencedBy, James George Frazer]
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A.
George Jackson Churchward
George Jackson Churchward was a pioneering British railway engineer and Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway, renowned for his influential locomotive designs in the early 20th century.
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B.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
Charles Webster Leadbeater was a prominent early 20th-century Theosophist, clairvoyant, and author known for his influential writings on esotericism, occultism, and spiritual development.
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C.
David Huxley
David Huxley is the mild-mannered, bespectacled paleontologist whose orderly life is upended by a free-spirited heiress in the classic screwball comedy "Bringing Up Baby."
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D.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo was an 18th-century Scottish judge, philosopher, and early evolutionary thinker known for his pioneering ideas on the development of language and human society.
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E.
John Gardner Wilkinson
John Gardner Wilkinson was a pioneering 19th-century English Egyptologist whose detailed studies and publications helped lay the foundations of modern Egyptology.
- 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: James George Frazer Target entity description: James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist best known for his comparative study of religion and mythology in his seminal work "The Golden Bough."
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A.
George Jackson Churchward
George Jackson Churchward was a pioneering British railway engineer and Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway, renowned for his influential locomotive designs in the early 20th century.
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B.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
Charles Webster Leadbeater was a prominent early 20th-century Theosophist, clairvoyant, and author known for his influential writings on esotericism, occultism, and spiritual development.
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C.
David Huxley
David Huxley is the mild-mannered, bespectacled paleontologist whose orderly life is upended by a free-spirited heiress in the classic screwball comedy "Bringing Up Baby."
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D.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo was an 18th-century Scottish judge, philosopher, and early evolutionary thinker known for his pioneering ideas on the development of language and human society.
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E.
John Gardner Wilkinson
John Gardner Wilkinson was a pioneering 19th-century English Egyptologist whose detailed studies and publications helped lay the foundations of modern Egyptology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
classicist
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folklorist ⓘ human ⓘ social anthropologist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| academicDegree | Bachelor of Arts ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Order of Merit ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1854-01-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1941-05-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Trinity College, Cambridge
ⓘ
University of Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Frazer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology
ⓘ
classics ⓘ comparative religion ⓘ folklore studies ⓘ mythology ⓘ |
| givenName |
George
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bronisław Malinowski
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carl Gustav Jung NERFINISHED ⓘ James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Campbell NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Graves NERFINISHED ⓘ Sigmund Freud NERFINISHED ⓘ T. S. Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Edward Burnett Tylor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Robertson Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
magic
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myth ⓘ religion ⓘ ritual ⓘ |
| memberOf | British Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
comparative mythology
ⓘ
evolutionary anthropology ⓘ |
| name | James George Frazer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Folk-lore in the Old Testament
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion NERFINISHED ⓘ The Golden Bough NERFINISHED ⓘ Totemism and Exogamy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
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Professor of Social Anthropology ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lilly Frazer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: James George Frazer Description of subject: James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist best known for his comparative study of religion and mythology in his seminal work "The Golden Bough."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sir James George Frazer
this entity surface form:
James Frazer