Information Anxiety
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Information Anxiety is a book by Richard Saul Wurman that explores the stress and confusion caused by information overload and offers strategies for making complex information more understandable.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Information Anxiety canonical | 1 |
| Information Anxiety 2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13513976 — 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: Information Anxiety Context triple: [Richard Saul Wurman, notableWork, Information Anxiety]
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A.
Information Division
The Information Division was a unit of the Farm Security Administration responsible for documenting and publicizing rural life and New Deal programs, notably through extensive photography and informational campaigns.
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B.
The Meaning of Anxiety
The Meaning of Anxiety is a seminal psychological and philosophical work by Rollo May that explores the nature, causes, and constructive potential of human anxiety in modern life.
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C.
The Concept of Anxiety
The Concept of Anxiety is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard that explores the nature of anxiety as a fundamental aspect of human freedom, sin, and existential choice.
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D.
Information Tribunal
The Information Tribunal is a UK judicial body that hears and decides appeals on decisions made by public authorities regarding access to information, including environmental information.
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E.
Anxiety
"Anxiety" is a song by the American musical group Black Eyed Peas from their album *Elephunk*.
- 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: Information Anxiety Target entity description: Information Anxiety is a book by Richard Saul Wurman that explores the stress and confusion caused by information overload and offers strategies for making complex information more understandable.
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A.
Information Division
The Information Division was a unit of the Farm Security Administration responsible for documenting and publicizing rural life and New Deal programs, notably through extensive photography and informational campaigns.
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B.
The Meaning of Anxiety
The Meaning of Anxiety is a seminal psychological and philosophical work by Rollo May that explores the nature, causes, and constructive potential of human anxiety in modern life.
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C.
The Concept of Anxiety
The Concept of Anxiety is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard that explores the nature of anxiety as a fundamental aspect of human freedom, sin, and existential choice.
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D.
Information Tribunal
The Information Tribunal is a UK judicial body that hears and decides appeals on decisions made by public authorities regarding access to information, including environmental information.
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E.
Anxiety
"Anxiety" is a song by the American musical group Black Eyed Peas from their album *Elephunk*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
help readers understand and use information effectively
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reduce anxiety caused by information overload ⓘ |
| author | Richard Saul Wurman ⓘ |
| describes |
difficulty of finding meaningful information
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gap between data and understanding ⓘ stress and confusion caused by too much information ⓘ |
| genre |
information design literature
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
designing information for understanding
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distinguishing data, information, and understanding ⓘ information as a form of anxiety ⓘ learning to ask better questions ⓘ making the complex clear ⓘ |
| hasSequel |
Information Anxiety 2
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linked to:
Information Anxiety
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| influencedField |
information architecture
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information design ⓘ user experience design ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
communication
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information anxiety ⓘ information design ⓘ information overload ⓘ stress caused by information ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early discussion of information overload in the digital age
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popularizing the term "information anxiety" ⓘ |
| proposes |
approaches to better communication design
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methods for organizing information ⓘ strategies for making complex information understandable ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
communication design
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information architecture ⓘ information overload ⓘ knowledge management ⓘ user experience design ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
communicators
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designers ⓘ general readers ⓘ information professionals ⓘ |
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: Information Anxiety Description of subject: Information Anxiety is a book by Richard Saul Wurman that explores the stress and confusion caused by information overload and offers strategies for making complex information more understandable.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Information Anxiety