Sam Harris
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Sam Harris is an American author, neuroscientist, and prominent atheist thinker known for his writings and podcasts on religion, morality, and rational inquiry.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Harris canonical | 18 |
| Sam Harris is a neuroscientist | 1 |
| Sam Harris is a philosopher | 1 |
| Sam Harris is a writer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1796615 — 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: Sam Harris Context triple: [Richard Dawkins Award, notableRecipient, Sam Harris]
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A.
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, and founder of *Skeptic* magazine, known for promoting scientific skepticism and critical thinking about paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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B.
John B. West
John B. West was an American legal publisher and entrepreneur best known for founding the company that became a dominant provider of legal case reporters and research tools in the United States.
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C.
John Harris
John Harris is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Bernadine Harris in the story.
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D.
Paul Kurtz
Paul Kurtz was an American philosopher and prominent secular humanist who became a leading advocate of scientific skepticism and critical inquiry into paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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E.
Jason Hart
Jason Hart is a former American professional basketball player who later became a college coach.
- 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: Sam Harris Target entity description: Sam Harris is an American author, neuroscientist, and prominent atheist thinker known for his writings and podcasts on religion, morality, and rational inquiry.
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A.
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, and founder of *Skeptic* magazine, known for promoting scientific skepticism and critical thinking about paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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B.
John B. West
John B. West was an American legal publisher and entrepreneur best known for founding the company that became a dominant provider of legal case reporters and research tools in the United States.
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C.
John Harris
John Harris is a fictional character known primarily as the husband of Bernadine Harris in the story.
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D.
Paul Kurtz
Paul Kurtz was an American philosopher and prominent secular humanist who became a leading advocate of scientific skepticism and critical inquiry into paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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E.
Jason Hart
Jason Hart is a former American professional basketball player who later became a college coach.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
atheist
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author ⓘ human ⓘ neuroscientist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ podcaster ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts in philosophy
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PhD in cognitive neuroscience ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Stanford University
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University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| awardReceived | PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction ⓘ |
| birthName | Samuel Benjamin Harris ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| coAuthor | Maajid Nawaz ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| dateOfBirth | 1967-04-09 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Mark S. Cohen ⓘ |
| familyName | Harris ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ethics
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moral philosophy ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ philosophy of religion ⓘ religion criticism ⓘ secularism ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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philosophy ⓘ popular science ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | New Atheism ⓘ |
| name | Sam Harris ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
critique of free will
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moral landscape ⓘ scientific approach to morality ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Free Will
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Islam and the Future of Tolerance ⓘ Letter to a Christian Nation ⓘ Lying ⓘ The End of Faith ⓘ The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason ⓘ
linked to:
The End of Faith
The Moral Landscape ⓘ The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values ⓘ
linked to:
The Moral Landscape
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion ⓘ |
| occupation |
neuroscientist
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podcast host ⓘ public intellectual ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founder of Waking Up meditation app
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host of the Making Sense podcast ⓘ |
| religiousBelief | atheism ⓘ |
| spouse | Annaka Harris ⓘ |
| website | https://samharris.org ⓘ |
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: Sam Harris Description of subject: Sam Harris is an American author, neuroscientist, and prominent atheist thinker known for his writings and podcasts on religion, morality, and rational inquiry.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sam Harris
linked to: Sam Harris
linked to: Sam Harris