Words and Rules
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Words and Rules canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1726329 — 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: Words and Rules Context triple: [Steven Pinker, notableWork, Words and Rules]
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Word and Object
"Word and Object" is a seminal 1960 work of analytic philosophy by W.V.O. Quine that develops his views on meaning, reference, and the indeterminacy of translation.
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B.
Language and Mind
Language and Mind is a collection of influential essays by Noam Chomsky that explores the nature of language, human cognition, and their implications for philosophy and psychology.
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C.
The Language of Thought
The Language of Thought is a seminal philosophical and cognitive science work by Jerry Fodor that argues for an innate, mental "language" underlying human thought and reasoning.
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D.
Treatise on the Origin of Language
Treatise on the Origin of Language is an influential 18th-century philosophical work that explores the natural, cultural, and historical origins of human language.
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E.
Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
"Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech" is a foundational 1921 work in linguistics that systematically explores the nature, structure, and function of human language.
- 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: Words and Rules Target entity description: 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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A.
Word and Object
"Word and Object" is a seminal 1960 work of analytic philosophy by W.V.O. Quine that develops his views on meaning, reference, and the indeterminacy of translation.
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B.
Language and Mind
Language and Mind is a collection of influential essays by Noam Chomsky that explores the nature of language, human cognition, and their implications for philosophy and psychology.
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C.
The Language of Thought
The Language of Thought is a seminal philosophical and cognitive science work by Jerry Fodor that argues for an innate, mental "language" underlying human thought and reasoning.
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D.
Treatise on the Origin of Language
Treatise on the Origin of Language is an influential 18th-century philosophical work that explores the natural, cultural, and historical origins of human language.
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E.
Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
"Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech" is a foundational 1921 work in linguistics that systematically explores the nature, structure, and function of human language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| arguesAgainst | single-mechanism connectionist accounts of morphology ⓘ |
| author | Steven Pinker ⓘ |
| discusses |
computational rules in grammar
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connectionist models of language ⓘ language acquisition ⓘ mental lexicon ⓘ neuropsychological evidence about language processing ⓘ overregularization errors in children ⓘ |
| explores |
dual-route model of language processing
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errors in language use as evidence for mental rules ⓘ how children acquire verb morphology ⓘ interplay between memorized words and grammatical rules ⓘ regular and irregular verb morphology ⓘ rule-based and associative processes in language ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
grammatical rules
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mental representation of words ⓘ past tense formation in English ⓘ relationship between memory and computation in language ⓘ |
| genre |
cognitive science literature
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linguistics literature ⓘ |
| hasAuthorProfession |
cognitive scientist
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linguist ⓘ psycholinguist ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
cognitive psychology
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computational view of mind ⓘ generative linguistics ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general readers
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students of cognitive science ⓘ students of linguistics ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
cognitive science
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language ⓘ morphology ⓘ psycholinguistics ⓘ |
| notableFor |
defending symbolic rules in cognitive science
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popularizing research on regular and irregular verbs ⓘ |
| proposes | dual-mechanism theory of inflection ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
How the Mind Works
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The Language Instinct ⓘ |
| supports |
coexistence of rules and memorized exceptions
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rule-based symbolic computation in the mind ⓘ |
| usesExample |
English past tense
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irregular verbs like "go–went" ⓘ regular verbs with -ed past tense ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Steven Pinker ⓘ |
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: Words and Rules Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.