Germs, Seeds and Animals
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Germs, Seeds and Animals is a historical work by Alfred W. Crosby that examines how the global spread of organisms transformed human societies and environments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Germs, Seeds and Animals canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1186282 — 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: Germs, Seeds and Animals Context triple: [Alfred W. Crosby, notableWork, Germs, Seeds and Animals]
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A.
Plant Predators
Plant Predators is an episode of the nature documentary series "The Life of Mammals" that explores how various mammal species feed on and interact with plants.
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B.
Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom is a crime drama television series that follows a Southern California crime family led by a manipulative matriarch, exploring themes of loyalty, violence, and dysfunctional family dynamics.
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C.
Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom is a critically acclaimed 2010 Australian crime drama film that explores the violent dynamics of a Melbourne crime family and launched international recognition for several of its cast and creators.
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D.
Agrotera
Agrotera is an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis that emphasizes her role as a huntress and protector of wild animals.
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E.
The Germ
The Germ was a short-lived 1850 periodical founded by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to promote their artistic and literary ideals.
- 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: Germs, Seeds and Animals Target entity description: Germs, Seeds and Animals is a historical work by Alfred W. Crosby that examines how the global spread of organisms transformed human societies and environments.
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A.
Plant Predators
Plant Predators is an episode of the nature documentary series "The Life of Mammals" that explores how various mammal species feed on and interact with plants.
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B.
Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom is a crime drama television series that follows a Southern California crime family led by a manipulative matriarch, exploring themes of loyalty, violence, and dysfunctional family dynamics.
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C.
Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom is a critically acclaimed 2010 Australian crime drama film that explores the violent dynamics of a Melbourne crime family and launched international recognition for several of its cast and creators.
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D.
Agrotera
Agrotera is an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis that emphasizes her role as a huntress and protector of wild animals.
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E.
The Germ
The Germ was a short-lived 1850 periodical founded by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to promote their artistic and literary ideals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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historical work ⓘ |
| about |
biological exchanges
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ecological imperialism ⓘ globalization of species ⓘ historical impact of agriculture ⓘ historical impact of disease ⓘ human-environment interactions ⓘ |
| author | Alfred W. Crosby ⓘ |
| examines |
how organisms transformed environments
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how organisms transformed human societies ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
environmental history
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global history ⓘ historical epidemiology ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
animals
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germs ⓘ seeds ⓘ |
| genre |
history
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Alfred W. Crosby ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
ecological change
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environmental history ⓘ global spread of organisms ⓘ human societies ⓘ |
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: Germs, Seeds and Animals Description of subject: Germs, Seeds and Animals is a historical work by Alfred W. Crosby that examines how the global spread of organisms transformed human societies and environments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.