Thinking, Fast and Slow
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"Thinking, Fast and Slow" is a bestselling book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman that explores how two distinct systems of thought—fast, intuitive thinking and slow, deliberate reasoning—shape human judgment and decision-making.
All labels observed (1)
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| Thinking, Fast and Slow canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7652154 — 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: Thinking, Fast and Slow Context triple: [Daniel Kahneman, notableWork, Thinking, Fast and Slow]
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A.
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" is a popular behavioral economics book by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein that explains how subtle changes in choice architecture can steer people toward better decisions without restricting their freedom.
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B.
How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works is a popular science book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores human thought and behavior through the lenses of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
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C.
How We Think
How We Think is a foundational philosophical and educational work by John Dewey that analyzes the nature of reflective thought and its role in effective learning and problem-solving.
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D.
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
"Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters" is a non-fiction book by cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker that explores the nature of human reasoning, why people often think irrationally, and how better reasoning can improve individual and societal decision-making.
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E.
Poor Charlie’s Almanack
Poor Charlie’s Almanack is a widely acclaimed collection of Charlie Munger’s speeches, essays, and wisdom on investing, decision-making, and multidisciplinary thinking.
- 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: Thinking, Fast and Slow Target entity description: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" is a bestselling book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman that explores how two distinct systems of thought—fast, intuitive thinking and slow, deliberate reasoning—shape human judgment and decision-making.
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A.
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" is a popular behavioral economics book by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein that explains how subtle changes in choice architecture can steer people toward better decisions without restricting their freedom.
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B.
How the Mind Works
How the Mind Works is a popular science book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores human thought and behavior through the lenses of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
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C.
How We Think
How We Think is a foundational philosophical and educational work by John Dewey that analyzes the nature of reflective thought and its role in effective learning and problem-solving.
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D.
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
"Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters" is a non-fiction book by cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker that explores the nature of human reasoning, why people often think irrationally, and how better reasoning can improve individual and societal decision-making.
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E.
Poor Charlie’s Almanack
Poor Charlie’s Almanack is a widely acclaimed collection of Charlie Munger’s speeches, essays, and wisdom on investing, decision-making, and multidisciplinary thinking.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| author | Daniel Kahneman ⓘ |
| basedOnResearchBy |
Amos Tversky
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Daniel Kahneman ⓘ |
| characterizesSystem1As |
automatic
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fast ⓘ intuitive ⓘ |
| characterizesSystem2As |
deliberative
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effortful ⓘ slow ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| describes |
System 1 thinking
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System 2 thinking ⓘ |
| explainsConcept |
anchoring effect
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availability heuristic ⓘ endowment effect ⓘ halo effect ⓘ peak-end rule ⓘ planning fallacy ⓘ prospect theory value function ⓘ reference dependence ⓘ regression to the mean ⓘ representativeness heuristic ⓘ |
| genre |
behavioral economics
ⓘ
psychology ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Part I: Two Systems
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Part II: Heuristics and Biases ⓘ Part III: Overconfidence ⓘ Part IV: Choices ⓘ Part V: Two Selves ⓘ |
| influencedField |
behavioral economics
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behavioral finance ⓘ management ⓘ marketing ⓘ public policy ⓘ |
| notableAward | National Academies Communication Award (2012) ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux ⓘ |
| subject |
bounded rationality
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cognitive biases ⓘ decision-making ⓘ dual-process theory ⓘ framing effects ⓘ heuristics ⓘ judgment ⓘ loss aversion ⓘ overconfidence ⓘ prospect theory ⓘ risk perception ⓘ |
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: Thinking, Fast and Slow Description of subject: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" is a bestselling book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman that explores how two distinct systems of thought—fast, intuitive thinking and slow, deliberate reasoning—shape human judgment and decision-making.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Daniel Kahneman (honorary doctorate, not student)