Homicide
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Homicide is a seminal evolutionary psychology book by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson that analyzes patterns of killing to explain human conflict, kinship, and violence.
All labels observed (1)
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| Homicide canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3809709 — 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: Homicide Context triple: [Martin Daly, coAuthorOf, Homicide]
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A.
Slaughter
Slaughter is the surname of Louise Slaughter, a long-serving American congresswoman known for her work on health care, ethics, and women's rights.
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B.
Homicide Squad
The Homicide Squad is a specialized New York City Police Department unit dedicated to investigating and solving murder cases.
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Clutter family murders
The Clutter family murders were a notorious 1959 quadruple homicide in Holcomb, Kansas, that became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
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D.
Lustmord
Lustmord is a text-based artwork by Jenny Holzer that confronts the brutality and trauma of wartime sexual violence through stark, unsettling language.
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E.
The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
- 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: Homicide Target entity description: Homicide is a seminal evolutionary psychology book by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson that analyzes patterns of killing to explain human conflict, kinship, and violence.
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A.
Slaughter
Slaughter is the surname of Louise Slaughter, a long-serving American congresswoman known for her work on health care, ethics, and women's rights.
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B.
Homicide Squad
The Homicide Squad is a specialized New York City Police Department unit dedicated to investigating and solving murder cases.
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C.
Clutter family murders
The Clutter family murders were a notorious 1959 quadruple homicide in Holcomb, Kansas, that became widely known through Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
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D.
Lustmord
Lustmord is a text-based artwork by Jenny Holzer that confronts the brutality and trauma of wartime sexual violence through stark, unsettling language.
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E.
The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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evolutionary psychology book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
anthropology
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psychology ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| analyzes |
child abuse
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intrafamilial homicide ⓘ male–male competition ⓘ patterns of killing ⓘ sexual jealousy ⓘ spousal homicide ⓘ step-parental violence ⓘ |
| author |
Margo Wilson
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Martin Daly ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| field |
behavioral ecology
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criminology ⓘ sociobiology ⓘ |
| genre | academic literature ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
Cinderella effect
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discriminative parental solicitude ⓘ inclusive fitness in family violence ⓘ jealousy-motivated homicide ⓘ sex differences in aggression ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | evolutionary psychology ⓘ |
| hasReputation | seminal work in evolutionary psychology of violence ⓘ |
| influenced |
evolutionary approaches to domestic violence
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evolutionary criminology ⓘ research on step-parental abuse ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
conflict
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evolutionary psychology ⓘ homicide ⓘ human violence ⓘ kinship ⓘ |
| notableFor |
focus on kinship and relatedness in violence
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integration of evolutionary theory with crime statistics ⓘ systematic evolutionary analysis of homicide data ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Aldine de Gruyter
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linked to:
Mouton de Gruyter
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| targetAudience |
academics in social sciences
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graduate students ⓘ researchers ⓘ |
| theoreticalFramework |
inclusive fitness theory
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parental investment theory ⓘ sexual selection ⓘ |
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