Janet Dean Fodor
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Janet Dean Fodor is an American psycholinguist and cognitive scientist known for her influential work on sentence processing and the architecture of the language faculty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Janet Dean Fodor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13269491 — 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: Janet Dean Fodor Context triple: [Jerry Fodor, spouse, Janet Dean Fodor]
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A.
Susan Bell Dennett
Susan Bell Dennett is the wife of American philosopher Daniel Dennett and a longtime partner in his personal and professional life.
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B.
Constance M. Burge
Constance M. Burge is an American television writer and producer best known for developing and producing popular drama series in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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C.
Ruth Millikan
Ruth Millikan is an American philosopher best known for her influential work in philosophy of mind, language, and biology, particularly her teleosemantic theory of mental content.
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D.
Donna Toulmin
Donna Toulmin is known as the wife of British philosopher Stephen Toulmin, associated with his personal and academic life.
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E.
Geraldine Freund
Geraldine Freund is known primarily as the daughter of influential cinematographer and director Karl Freund.
- 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: Janet Dean Fodor Target entity description: Janet Dean Fodor is an American psycholinguist and cognitive scientist known for her influential work on sentence processing and the architecture of the language faculty.
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A.
Susan Bell Dennett
Susan Bell Dennett is the wife of American philosopher Daniel Dennett and a longtime partner in his personal and professional life.
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B.
Constance M. Burge
Constance M. Burge is an American television writer and producer best known for developing and producing popular drama series in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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C.
Ruth Millikan
Ruth Millikan is an American philosopher best known for her influential work in philosophy of mind, language, and biology, particularly her teleosemantic theory of mental content.
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D.
Donna Toulmin
Donna Toulmin is known as the wife of British philosopher Stephen Toulmin, associated with his personal and academic life.
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E.
Geraldine Freund
Geraldine Freund is known primarily as the daughter of influential cinematographer and director Karl Freund.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American academic
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cognitive scientist ⓘ linguist ⓘ psycholinguist ⓘ |
| affiliation |
CUNY Graduate Center
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City University of New York ⓘ |
| field |
cognitive science
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linguistics ⓘ psycholinguistics ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
garden-path model of sentence processing
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parsing principles in language comprehension ⓘ parsing strategies for ambiguous sentences ⓘ prosodic bootstrapping in language acquisition ⓘ |
| hasContribution |
experimental studies on sentence comprehension
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models of the language faculty architecture ⓘ research on how listeners resolve structural ambiguity ⓘ research on the role of prosody in syntactic disambiguation ⓘ studies of on-line sentence processing ⓘ theoretical models of human sentence parsing ⓘ work on cross-linguistic sentence processing ⓘ work on the interaction of syntax and prosody ⓘ |
| influenced |
models of syntactic processing in cognitive science
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research on human sentence parsing ⓘ subsequent theories of the language faculty ⓘ |
| knownFor |
garden-path theory of sentence processing
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parsing theory ⓘ prosodic influences on sentence processing ⓘ research on ambiguity resolution in language comprehension ⓘ research on human sentence processing ⓘ work on parsing strategies ⓘ work on the architecture of the language faculty ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notableFor | influential work in psycholinguistics in the late 20th and early 21st centuries ⓘ |
| occupation |
linguist
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researcher ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| position |
Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center
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Professor of Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center ⓘ |
| researchArea |
computational models of parsing
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language acquisition ⓘ language comprehension ⓘ prosody and parsing ⓘ sentence processing ⓘ syntax–semantics interface ⓘ |
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: Janet Dean Fodor Description of subject: Janet Dean Fodor is an American psycholinguist and cognitive scientist known for her influential work on sentence processing and the architecture of the language faculty.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.