John Tooby
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John Tooby is an American anthropologist and one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, known for his influential work on the evolutionary basis of the human mind and behavior.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Tooby canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T289449 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Tooby Context triple: [evolutionary psychology, hasKeyFigure, John Tooby]
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A.
Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides is an American cognitive psychologist renowned for pioneering the field of evolutionary psychology, particularly through her work on the evolved architecture of the human mind and social reasoning.
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B.
Ian Darwin
Ian Darwin is a software developer and author best known for his contributions to Unix, Java, and open source programming resources.
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C.
Kirkpatrick Durham
Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
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D.
Luke Nosek
Luke Nosek is a Polish-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as one of the co-founders of PayPal and a member of the original "PayPal Mafia."
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E.
Michael Darwin
Michael Darwin is an American writer and researcher best known for his influential work and advocacy in the field of cryonics.
- 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: John Tooby Target entity description: John Tooby is an American anthropologist and one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, known for his influential work on the evolutionary basis of the human mind and behavior.
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A.
Leda Cosmides
Leda Cosmides is an American cognitive psychologist renowned for pioneering the field of evolutionary psychology, particularly through her work on the evolved architecture of the human mind and social reasoning.
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B.
Ian Darwin
Ian Darwin is a software developer and author best known for his contributions to Unix, Java, and open source programming resources.
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C.
Kirkpatrick Durham
Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
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D.
Luke Nosek
Luke Nosek is a Polish-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as one of the co-founders of PayPal and a member of the original "PayPal Mafia."
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E.
Michael Darwin
Michael Darwin is an American writer and researcher best known for his influential work and advocacy in the field of cryonics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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evolutionary psychologist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith |
Jerome H. Barkow
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Leda Cosmides ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Center for Evolutionary Psychology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology
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cognitive science ⓘ evolutionary biology ⓘ evolutionary psychology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | John H. Rowe ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | Center for Evolutionary Psychology website ⓘ |
| influenced | researchers in evolutionary psychology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Charles Darwin
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George C. Williams ⓘ Noam Chomsky ⓘ William D. Hamilton ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | evolutionary psychology ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
environment of evolutionary adaptedness
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evolved psychological mechanisms ⓘ reverse engineering of the mind ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding evolutionary psychology as a field
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work on the evolutionary basis of human behavior ⓘ work on the evolutionary basis of the human mind ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Evolutionary psychology: A primer
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The Adapted Mind ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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anthropologist ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor at University of California, Santa Barbara ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
cognitive architecture of the human mind
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emotion as an adaptation ⓘ human universals ⓘ social exchange and cooperation ⓘ |
| spouse | Leda Cosmides ⓘ |
| theoreticalContribution |
argument for domain-specific cognitive adaptations
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concept of massively modular mind ⓘ distinction between evolutionary and cultural explanations of behavior ⓘ integration of evolutionary biology with cognitive psychology ⓘ |
| workInstitution | University of California, Santa Barbara ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: John Tooby Description of subject: John Tooby is an American anthropologist and one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, known for his influential work on the evolutionary basis of the human mind and behavior.
Referenced by (5)
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