Practical Education
E120533
"Practical Education" is an influential late-18th-century treatise on child-rearing and pedagogy that emphasizes experiential learning and rational instruction, co-authored by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter Maria Edgeworth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Practical Education canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1042603 — 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: Practical Education Context triple: [Richard Lovell Edgeworth, notableWork, Practical Education]
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A.
Experience and Education
Experience and Education is a foundational 1938 work of educational philosophy by John Dewey that critiques traditional schooling and outlines a progressive, experience-based approach to learning.
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B.
CompEd
CompEd is an international ACM SIGCSE conference focused on research and innovation in computing education.
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C.
Praktikos
Praktikos is an early Christian ascetic treatise by Evagrius Ponticus that outlines practical guidance for monks on combating thoughts and cultivating virtue.
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D.
On Practice
"On Practice" is a philosophical essay by Mao Zedong that expounds a Marxist theory of knowledge, emphasizing the primacy of practical experience in the formation and testing of ideas.
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E.
Worker Training Program
The Worker Training Program is a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences initiative that provides health and safety training to workers involved in hazardous materials handling, emergency response, and environmental cleanup.
- 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: Practical Education Target entity description: "Practical Education" is an influential late-18th-century treatise on child-rearing and pedagogy that emphasizes experiential learning and rational instruction, co-authored by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter Maria Edgeworth.
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A.
Experience and Education
Experience and Education is a foundational 1938 work of educational philosophy by John Dewey that critiques traditional schooling and outlines a progressive, experience-based approach to learning.
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B.
CompEd
CompEd is an international ACM SIGCSE conference focused on research and innovation in computing education.
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C.
Praktikos
Praktikos is an early Christian ascetic treatise by Evagrius Ponticus that outlines practical guidance for monks on combating thoughts and cultivating virtue.
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D.
On Practice
"On Practice" is a philosophical essay by Mao Zedong that expounds a Marxist theory of knowledge, emphasizing the primacy of practical experience in the formation and testing of ideas.
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E.
Worker Training Program
The Worker Training Program is a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences initiative that provides health and safety training to workers involved in hazardous materials handling, emergency response, and environmental cleanup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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educational treatise ⓘ pedagogical work ⓘ |
| advocates |
adapting instruction to the child’s stage of development
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encouraging curiosity ⓘ minimizing rote memorization ⓘ using real objects and experiments in teaching ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
link theory of mind with educational practice
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provide systematic guidance for parents and teachers ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement |
Enlightenment
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linked to:
Age of Enlightenment
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| associatedWithPhilosophy | rationalism in education ⓘ |
| author |
Maria Edgeworth
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Richard Lovell Edgeworth ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Maria Edgeworth
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Richard Lovell Edgeworth ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizes |
harsh discipline in child-rearing
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purely classical, bookish education ⓘ |
| discusses |
development of attention and memory
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habit formation in children ⓘ moral and religious instruction ⓘ rewards and punishments in education ⓘ teaching of mathematics ⓘ teaching of reading and writing ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
hands-on experience
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moral development ⓘ observation-based learning ⓘ parental involvement in education ⓘ reasoning skills ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
early childhood education
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experiential learning ⓘ rational instruction ⓘ |
| genre |
educational literature
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasNotableContributor |
Maria Edgeworth
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Richard Lovell Edgeworth ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | important work in the history of educational theory ⓘ |
| influenced | 19th-century educational reformers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Enlightenment educational thought
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John Locke ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
child-rearing
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education ⓘ moral education ⓘ pedagogy ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | late 18th century ⓘ |
| relatedWorkOfAuthor |
Belinda
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Castle Rackrent ⓘ |
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: Practical Education Description of subject: "Practical Education" is an influential late-18th-century treatise on child-rearing and pedagogy that emphasizes experiential learning and rational instruction, co-authored by Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his daughter Maria Edgeworth.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.