Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Gödel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prize–winning interdisciplinary book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores deep connections between mathematics, art, music, and human consciousness.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gödel, Escher, Bach canonical | 8 |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | 4 |
| GEB | 1 |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T655414 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gödel, Escher, Bach Context triple: [MIT Press, notablePublication, Gödel, Escher, Bach]
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A.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
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B.
The Dragons of Eden
The Dragons of Eden is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1977 book by Carl Sagan that explores the evolution of human intelligence and the brain through a blend of science, anthropology, and speculative thought.
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C.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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D.
Conjectures and Refutations
Conjectures and Refutations is a major philosophical work by Karl Popper that develops his theory of scientific knowledge through the ideas of falsifiability, critical testing, and the growth of knowledge via bold hypotheses and their refutation.
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E.
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science is a comprehensive popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains major scientific concepts and the history of scientific thought for general readers.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gödel, Escher, Bach Target entity description: Gödel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prize–winning interdisciplinary book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores deep connections between mathematics, art, music, and human consciousness.
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A.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
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B.
The Dragons of Eden
The Dragons of Eden is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1977 book by Carl Sagan that explores the evolution of human intelligence and the brain through a blend of science, anthropology, and speculative thought.
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C.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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D.
Conjectures and Refutations
Conjectures and Refutations is a major philosophical work by Karl Popper that develops his theory of scientific knowledge through the ideas of falsifiability, critical testing, and the growth of knowledge via bold hypotheses and their refutation.
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E.
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science is a comprehensive popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains major scientific concepts and the history of scientific thought for general readers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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interdisciplinary work ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ popular science book ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
Gödel, Escher, Bach
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
GEB
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| author | Douglas Hofstadter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Book Award for Nonfiction
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surface form:
National Book Award for Science (paperback)
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
emergent phenomena
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isomorphism ⓘ levels of description ⓘ meaning in formal systems ⓘ self-referential structures ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
cognitive science
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computer science popularization ⓘ mathematics popularization ⓘ philosophy of mathematics ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| influenced |
artificial intelligence research
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cognitive science ⓘ philosophy of mind discourse ⓘ |
| ISBN | 0465026567 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice |
Achilles and the tortoise
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surface form:
Achilles and the Tortoise
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| pages | over 700 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| publisher | Basic Books ⓘ |
| structure |
dialogues between fictional characters
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interleaved essays ⓘ |
| subject |
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
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Johann Sebastian Bach ⓘ Kurt Gödel ⓘ M. C. Escher ⓘ Turing machine ⓘ
surface form:
Turing machines
artificial intelligence ⓘ computation ⓘ consciousness ⓘ formal systems ⓘ mathematical logic ⓘ music theory ⓘ recursion ⓘ self-reference ⓘ strange loops ⓘ |
| subtitle | An Eternal Golden Braid ⓘ |
| title | Gödel, Escher, Bach self-link ⓘ |
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Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
this entity surface form:
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
this entity surface form:
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
this entity surface form:
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979)
this entity surface form:
GEB
subject surface form:
Douglas Hofstadter
this entity surface form:
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid