Douglas Harding
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Douglas Harding was a British philosophical writer and spiritual teacher best known for developing the "Headless Way," a method of self-inquiry and non-dual awareness.
All labels observed (1)
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| Douglas Harding canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10966570 — 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: Douglas Harding Context triple: [Harding, hasNotableBearer, Douglas Harding]
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A.
Edward Glendinning
Edward Glendinning is a central fictional character in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Monastery," around whom much of the story’s religious and familial conflict revolves.
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B.
Douglas Hadow
Douglas Hadow was a young British mountaineer best known for being among the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which he died in a famous climbing accident on the descent.
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C.
Colin Turnbull
Colin Turnbull was a British anthropologist and writer best known for his influential ethnographic works on African societies, such as "The Forest People" and "The Mountain People."
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D.
Ronald Norrish
Ronald Norrish was a British physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and photochemistry.
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E.
Daniel Bagnold
Daniel Bagnold is the moody, metal-loving teenage son at the heart of the coming-of-age story "Days of the Bagnold Summer."
- 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: Douglas Harding Target entity description: Douglas Harding was a British philosophical writer and spiritual teacher best known for developing the "Headless Way," a method of self-inquiry and non-dual awareness.
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A.
Edward Glendinning
Edward Glendinning is a central fictional character in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Monastery," around whom much of the story’s religious and familial conflict revolves.
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B.
Douglas Hadow
Douglas Hadow was a young British mountaineer best known for being among the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which he died in a famous climbing accident on the descent.
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C.
Colin Turnbull
Colin Turnbull was a British anthropologist and writer best known for his influential ethnographic works on African societies, such as "The Forest People" and "The Mountain People."
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D.
Ronald Norrish
Ronald Norrish was a British physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and photochemistry.
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E.
Daniel Bagnold
Daniel Bagnold is the moody, metal-loving teenage son at the heart of the coming-of-age story "Days of the Bagnold Summer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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philosophical writer ⓘ spiritual teacher ⓘ |
| aimOfWork |
overcoming ego-centered perception
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realization of true nature ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
The Headless Way organization
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headless.org ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
non-dualism
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philosophy ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophical literature
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spiritual literature ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
first-person seeing
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pointing experiments ⓘ seeing who you really are ⓘ |
| influenced |
Catherine Harding
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Headless Way practitioners ⓘ Richard Lang ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Advaita Vedanta
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Christian mysticism ⓘ Jiddu Krishnamurti ⓘ Zen Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Zen
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| knownFor |
developing the Headless Way method of self-inquiry
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teaching direct, experiential non-dual awareness ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
contemplative spirituality
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nondualism ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Headless Way
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having no head ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Face to No-Face
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Head Off Stress ⓘ On Having No Head ⓘ The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth ⓘ The Little Book of Life and Death ⓘ To Be and Not to Be, That Is the Answer ⓘ |
| occupation |
philosopher
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spiritual teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| religiousOrPhilosophicalTradition |
Christianity
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non-sectarian spirituality ⓘ |
| teaches |
direct awareness of awareness
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non-dual perception of self and world ⓘ self-inquiry ⓘ |
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: Douglas Harding Description of subject: Douglas Harding was a British philosophical writer and spiritual teacher best known for developing the "Headless Way," a method of self-inquiry and non-dual awareness.
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