Robert Yerkes
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Robert Yerkes was an American psychologist and primatologist best known for pioneering intelligence testing and comparative psychology, including organizing World War I Army mental tests.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Yerkes canonical | 3 |
| Robert M. Yerkes | 1 |
| Robert Mearns Yerkes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9636120 — 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: Robert Yerkes Context triple: [Ursinus College, hasNotableAlumnus, Robert Yerkes]
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A.
James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell was an influential American psychologist and early psychometrician who helped establish experimental psychology and mental testing in the United States.
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B.
Alexander G. Cattell
Alexander G. Cattell was a 19th-century American politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey.
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C.
Jacques Cattell
Jacques Cattell was an American musicologist and publisher best known for founding and editing the reference work "The Musician’s Handbook" and contributing to music education and scholarship.
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D.
Eugene W. Hilgard
Eugene W. Hilgard was a prominent 19th-century soil scientist and geologist known as a pioneer of modern soil science in the United States.
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E.
Psyche Cattell
Psyche Cattell was an American psychologist known for her work in child intelligence testing and the development of the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale.
- 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: Robert Yerkes Target entity description: Robert Yerkes was an American psychologist and primatologist best known for pioneering intelligence testing and comparative psychology, including organizing World War I Army mental tests.
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A.
James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell was an influential American psychologist and early psychometrician who helped establish experimental psychology and mental testing in the United States.
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B.
Alexander G. Cattell
Alexander G. Cattell was a 19th-century American politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey.
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C.
Jacques Cattell
Jacques Cattell was an American musicologist and publisher best known for founding and editing the reference work "The Musician’s Handbook" and contributing to music education and scholarship.
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D.
Eugene W. Hilgard
Eugene W. Hilgard was a prominent 19th-century soil scientist and geologist known as a pioneer of modern soil science in the United States.
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E.
Psyche Cattell
Psyche Cattell was an American psychologist known for her work in child intelligence testing and the development of the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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primatologist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in psychology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1876-05-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1956-02-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard University
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Yale University ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century psychology ⓘ |
| familyName | Yerkes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comparative psychology
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intelligence testing ⓘ primatology ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| fullName |
Robert Mearns Yerkes
ⓘ
linked to:
Robert Yerkes
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
researcher
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university teacher ⓘ |
| influenced | development of psychological testing in the United States ⓘ |
| influencedBy | early experimental psychology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing group intelligence tests
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establishing primate research facilities ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Psychological Association ⓘ |
| movement | behaviorism ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comparative psychology research
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organizing World War I Army mental tests ⓘ pioneering intelligence testing ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Army Alpha intelligence test
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Army Beta intelligence test ⓘ The Great Apes ⓘ The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes ⓘ
linked to:
The Mentality of Apes
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| participatedIn | World War I U.S. Army testing program ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Breadysville, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chair of the Committee on the Psychological Examination of Recruits
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president of the American Psychological Association ⓘ |
| researchSubject |
chimpanzees
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gorillas ⓘ monkeys ⓘ orangutans ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Robert Yerkes Description of subject: Robert Yerkes was an American psychologist and primatologist best known for pioneering intelligence testing and comparative psychology, including organizing World War I Army mental tests.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Robert Yerkes
linked to: Robert Yerkes