Society for Medical Anthropology
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The Society for Medical Anthropology is a professional organization that promotes the anthropological study of health, illness, and medicine within the broader American Anthropological Association.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Society for Medical Anthropology canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T569084 — 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: Society for Medical Anthropology Context triple: [American Anthropological Association, hasPart, Society for Medical Anthropology]
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A.
Society for Cultural Anthropology
The Society for Cultural Anthropology is a scholarly organization dedicated to advancing the study and critical analysis of culture within the broader field of anthropology.
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B.
American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association is the primary professional organization for anthropologists in the United States, dedicated to advancing the study of humanity through research, education, and ethical practice.
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C.
Society for the Anthropology of Religion
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion is a scholarly section of the American Anthropological Association devoted to the anthropological study of religious beliefs, practices, and institutions across cultures.
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D.
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is a scholarly organization that promotes anthropological research and dialogue on the cultural, social, and biological dimensions of food and nutrition.
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E.
Society for the Anthropology of Reproduction
The Society for the Anthropology of Reproduction is a scholarly section of anthropologists focused on the cultural, social, and political dimensions of human reproduction and reproductive technologies.
- 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: Society for Medical Anthropology Target entity description: The Society for Medical Anthropology is a professional organization that promotes the anthropological study of health, illness, and medicine within the broader American Anthropological Association.
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A.
Society for Cultural Anthropology
The Society for Cultural Anthropology is a scholarly organization dedicated to advancing the study and critical analysis of culture within the broader field of anthropology.
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B.
American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association is the primary professional organization for anthropologists in the United States, dedicated to advancing the study of humanity through research, education, and ethical practice.
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C.
Society for the Anthropology of Religion
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion is a scholarly section of the American Anthropological Association devoted to the anthropological study of religious beliefs, practices, and institutions across cultures.
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D.
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is a scholarly organization that promotes anthropological research and dialogue on the cultural, social, and biological dimensions of food and nutrition.
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E.
Society for the Anthropology of Reproduction
The Society for the Anthropology of Reproduction is a scholarly section of anthropologists focused on the cultural, social, and political dimensions of human reproduction and reproductive technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
learned society
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professional association ⓘ section of the American Anthropological Association ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | medical anthropology journals ⓘ |
| aims |
to encourage the application of anthropological knowledge to health issues
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to foster communication among medical anthropologists ⓘ to promote the anthropological study of health, illness, and medicine ⓘ to support scholarship in medical anthropology ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| discipline | anthropology ⓘ |
| field | medical anthropology ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
HIV/AIDS
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biomedicine ⓘ caregiving ⓘ chronic illness ⓘ clinical encounters ⓘ disability ⓘ epidemics ⓘ ethnomedicine ⓘ global health ⓘ healing practices ⓘ health ⓘ health care systems ⓘ health inequalities ⓘ health policy ⓘ health professions ⓘ illness ⓘ medical education ⓘ medical ethics ⓘ medicine ⓘ mental health ⓘ patient experience ⓘ public health ⓘ reproductive health ⓘ science and technology studies ⓘ social determinants of health ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
anthropologists
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health professionals ⓘ researchers ⓘ students ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| organizes |
conferences
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panels at professional meetings ⓘ workshops ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | American Anthropological Association ⓘ |
| supports |
professional networking
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publications in medical anthropology ⓘ student mentoring ⓘ |
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: Society for Medical Anthropology Description of subject: The Society for Medical Anthropology is a professional organization that promotes the anthropological study of health, illness, and medicine within the broader American Anthropological Association.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.