A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

E627514

human social anthropologist

A. R. Radcliffe-Brown was a pioneering British social anthropologist known for developing structural functionalism and conducting influential fieldwork in societies such as the Andaman Islanders and Australian Aboriginal groups.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown canonical	3
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown	1
Radcliffe-Brown	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6869697 — 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: A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
Context triple: [Huxley Memorial Medal, notableRecipient, A. R. Radcliffe-Brown]

A. Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth was a prominent New Zealand-born social anthropologist best known for his influential work on economic anthropology and his studies of Tikopia society.
B. E. E. Evans-Pritchard
E. E. Evans-Pritchard was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential ethnographic studies of African societies and his role in shaping structural-functionalism in anthropology.
C. Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton was an American anthropologist known for his work on culture and personality and for helping popularize key concepts such as status and role in social anthropology.
D. Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski was a pioneering Polish-British anthropologist whose fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands helped establish modern social anthropology and the method of participant observation.
E. Richard Linton
Richard Linton is an American academic administrator and food science scholar who serves as the president of Kansas State University.
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: A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
Target entity description: A. R. Radcliffe-Brown was a pioneering British social anthropologist known for developing structural functionalism and conducting influential fieldwork in societies such as the Andaman Islanders and Australian Aboriginal groups.

A. Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth was a prominent New Zealand-born social anthropologist best known for his influential work on economic anthropology and his studies of Tikopia society.
B. E. E. Evans-Pritchard
E. E. Evans-Pritchard was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential ethnographic studies of African societies and his role in shaping structural-functionalism in anthropology.
C. Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton was an American anthropologist known for his work on culture and personality and for helping popularize key concepts such as status and role in social anthropology.
D. Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Malinowski was a pioneering Polish-British anthropologist whose fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands helped establish modern social anthropology and the method of participant observation.
E. Richard Linton
Richard Linton is an American academic administrator and food science scholar who serves as the president of Kansas State University.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ social anthropologist ⓘ
academicDiscipline	anthropology ⓘ
countryOfBirth	United Kingdom ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1881-01-17 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1955-10-24 ⓘ
educatedAt	King's College, Cambridge ⓘ linked to: King’s College, Cambridge Trinity College, Cambridge ⓘ
familyName	Radcliffe-Brown ⓘ linked to: A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
fieldOfWork	social anthropology ⓘ structural functionalism ⓘ
fullName	Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown ⓘ linked to: A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
givenName	Alfred ⓘ Reginald ⓘ
hasHonorificPrefix	Professor ⓘ
influenced	British social anthropology ⓘ E. E. Evans-Pritchard ⓘ Meyer Fortes ⓘ
influencedBy	Marcel Mauss ⓘ Émile Durkheim ⓘ
knownFor	developing structural functionalism in anthropology ⓘ fieldwork among Australian Aboriginal groups ⓘ fieldwork among the Andaman Islanders ⓘ
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned	English ⓘ
memberOf	Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ
movement	structural functionalism ⓘ
nationality	British ⓘ
notableWork	African Systems of Kinship and Marriage ⓘ Structure and Function in Primitive Society ⓘ The Andaman Islanders ⓘ linked to: Great Andamanese
occupation	anthropologist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Sparkbrook, Birmingham ⓘ linked to: Sparkhill, Birmingham, England
placeOfDeath	London ⓘ linked to: London, England
positionHeld	Professor at the University of São Paulo ⓘ Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney ⓘ Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town ⓘ Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Chicago ⓘ Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
theory	functional analysis of social institutions ⓘ society as a system of social relations ⓘ
workLocation	Andaman Islands ⓘ Australia ⓘ Brazil ⓘ South Africa ⓘ United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America

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Referenced by (5)

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

Huxley Memorial Medal → notableRecipient → A. R. Radcliffe-Brown ⓘ

E. E. Evans-Pritchard → influencedBy → A. R. Radcliffe-Brown ⓘ

Adam Kuper → influencedBy → A. R. Radcliffe-Brown ⓘ

A. R. Radcliffe-Brown → fullName → Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown ⓘ

linked to: A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

A. R. Radcliffe-Brown → familyName → Radcliffe-Brown ⓘ