George Lakoff

E533633

cognitive linguist linguist person professor emeritus

George Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist known for his work on conceptual metaphor and the role of embodied cognition in shaping human thought and language.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Disambiguation Statements Elicitation Referenced by

All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
George Lakoff canonical	2
George Philip Lakoff	1
Lakoff	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5600141 — 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: George Lakoff
Context triple: [Benjamin Lee Whorf, influenced, George Lakoff]

A. Richard Levinson
Richard Levinson was an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the iconic detective series Columbo.
B. John R. Rickford
John R. Rickford is a prominent sociolinguist known for his influential work on varieties of English, especially African American Vernacular English and other ethnic dialects in the United States.
C. Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and political activist widely regarded as the founder of modern linguistics and a prominent critic of U.S. foreign policy.
D. Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author known for his work on language, the mind, and human nature.
E. Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an Academy Award–nominated role in "Barton Fink."
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: George Lakoff
Target entity description: George Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist known for his work on conceptual metaphor and the role of embodied cognition in shaping human thought and language.

A. Richard Levinson
Richard Levinson was an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the iconic detective series Columbo.
B. John R. Rickford
John R. Rickford is a prominent sociolinguist known for his influential work on varieties of English, especially African American Vernacular English and other ethnic dialects in the United States.
C. Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and political activist widely regarded as the founder of modern linguistics and a prominent critic of U.S. foreign policy.
D. Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author known for his work on language, the mind, and human nature.
E. Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an Academy Award–nominated role in "Barton Fink."
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cognitive linguist ⓘ linguist ⓘ person ⓘ professor emeritus ⓘ
academicDegree	PhD in linguistics ⓘ
coAuthor	Elisabeth Wehling ⓘ Mark Johnson ⓘ Mark Turner ⓘ Rafael E. Núñez ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1941-05-24 ⓘ
educatedAt	Indiana University Bloomington ⓘ linked to: Indiana University Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
employer	University of California, Berkeley ⓘ
familyName	Lakoff ⓘ linked to: George Lakoff
fieldOfWork	cognitive linguistics ⓘ cognitive science ⓘ metaphor theory ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ political communication ⓘ pragmatics ⓘ semantics ⓘ
fullName	George Philip Lakoff ⓘ linked to: George Lakoff
givenName	George ⓘ
influenced	cognitive linguistics ⓘ embodied cognition research ⓘ political communication studies ⓘ
influencedBy	Ludwig Wittgenstein ⓘ Noam Chomsky ⓘ
knownFor	analysis of metaphor in everyday language ⓘ application of cognitive linguistics to politics ⓘ conceptual metaphor theory ⓘ research on framing in politics ⓘ theory of idealized cognitive models ⓘ work on embodied cognition ⓘ work on radial categories ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
notableWork	Don’t Think of an Elephant! ⓘ Metaphors We Live By ⓘ Moral Politics ⓘ Philosophy in the Flesh ⓘ Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Bayonne, New Jersey, United States ⓘ linked to: Bayonne, New Jersey
positionHeld	Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley ⓘ
theoreticalContribution	argued that human thought is largely metaphorical in nature ⓘ challenged objectivist views of meaning and reason ⓘ developed the notion of conceptual frames in political discourse ⓘ proposed that cognition is grounded in bodily experience ⓘ
workLocation	Berkeley, California, United States ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Benjamin Lee Whorf → influenced → George Lakoff ⓘ

Linguistic Society of America → hasNotableMember → George Lakoff ⓘ

George Lakoff → fullName → George Philip Lakoff ⓘ

linked to: George Lakoff

George Lakoff → familyName → Lakoff ⓘ