Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things is a 1987 cognitive linguistics book by George Lakoff that explores how human categorization and thought are shaped by embodied experience and metaphor rather than by classical logical categories.
All labels observed (1)
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| Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21623389 — 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: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things Context triple: [George Lakoff, notableWork, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things]
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A.
Reading Myself and Others
"Reading Myself and Others" is a collection of essays and interviews by Philip Roth in which he reflects on his own work, the craft of fiction, and the role of the writer.
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B.
The Stuff of Thought
The Stuff of Thought is a book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores how language reveals the nature of human thought, emotion, and social relationships.
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C.
Words and Rules
Words and Rules is a book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores how the human mind processes language, particularly the interplay between memorized words and grammatical rules.
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D.
The Child's Conception of the World
The Child's Conception of the World is a seminal book by developmental psychologist Jean Piaget that explores how children understand reality, causality, and the physical world as their cognitive abilities develop.
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E.
How to Do Things with Words
How to Do Things with Words is a foundational work in 20th-century philosophy of language by J. L. Austin that introduced speech act theory and transformed understandings of how language functions in practice.
- 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: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things Target entity description: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things is a 1987 cognitive linguistics book by George Lakoff that explores how human categorization and thought are shaped by embodied experience and metaphor rather than by classical logical categories.
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A.
Reading Myself and Others
"Reading Myself and Others" is a collection of essays and interviews by Philip Roth in which he reflects on his own work, the craft of fiction, and the role of the writer.
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B.
The Stuff of Thought
The Stuff of Thought is a book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores how language reveals the nature of human thought, emotion, and social relationships.
-
C.
Words and Rules
Words and Rules is a book by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker that explores how the human mind processes language, particularly the interplay between memorized words and grammatical rules.
-
D.
The Child's Conception of the World
The Child's Conception of the World is a seminal book by developmental psychologist Jean Piaget that explores how children understand reality, causality, and the physical world as their cognitive abilities develop.
-
E.
How to Do Things with Words
How to Do Things with Words is a foundational work in 20th-century philosophy of language by J. L. Austin that introduced speech act theory and transformed understandings of how language functions in practice.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.