Blink
E402018
Blink is a bestselling nonfiction book by Malcolm Gladwell that explores the power and pitfalls of rapid, intuitive decision-making.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blink canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3675786 — 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: Blink Context triple: [The Tipping Point, hasSequelOrRelatedWork, Blink]
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A.
Blink
Blink is an open-source web browser engine developed primarily by Google and used in several major browsers to render web pages.
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B.
Red Eye
Red Eye is a 2005 psychological thriller film in which Cillian Murphy plays a charming but menacing terrorist who coerces a hotel manager during a tense overnight flight.
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C.
"Don't blink"
"Don't blink" is the iconic warning associated with the Weeping Angels in Doctor Who, urging characters to avoid blinking to escape these predatory creatures.
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D.
BOLT
BOLT is the Bombay Stock Exchange’s proprietary electronic trading platform used to facilitate fast, automated securities trading in India.
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E.
In the Blink of an Eye
In the Blink of an Eye is a widely acclaimed book on the art and philosophy of film editing, written by renowned editor and sound designer Walter Murch.
- 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: Blink Target entity description: Blink is a bestselling nonfiction book by Malcolm Gladwell that explores the power and pitfalls of rapid, intuitive decision-making.
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A.
Blink
Blink is an open-source web browser engine developed primarily by Google and used in several major browsers to render web pages.
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B.
Red Eye
Red Eye is a 2005 psychological thriller film in which Cillian Murphy plays a charming but menacing terrorist who coerces a hotel manager during a tense overnight flight.
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C.
"Don't blink"
"Don't blink" is the iconic warning associated with the Weeping Angels in Doctor Who, urging characters to avoid blinking to escape these predatory creatures.
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D.
BOLT
BOLT is the Bombay Stock Exchange’s proprietary electronic trading platform used to facilitate fast, automated securities trading in India.
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E.
In the Blink of an Eye
In the Blink of an Eye is a widely acclaimed book on the art and philosophy of film editing, written by renowned editor and sound designer Walter Murch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonfiction book
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popular science book ⓘ psychology book ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | audiobook narrated by Malcolm Gladwell ⓘ |
| author | Malcolm Gladwell ⓘ |
| bestsellerStatus | New York Times bestseller ⓘ |
| centralThesis |
Intuitive decision-making can be distorted by bias and irrelevant information
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Rapid, intuitive judgments can be remarkably accurate under the right conditions ⓘ We can learn when to trust and when to distrust our snap judgments ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| exploresConcept |
bias in judgment
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expert intuition ⓘ first impressions ⓘ priming ⓘ rapid cognition ⓘ snap judgments ⓘ thin-slicing ⓘ unconscious decision-making ⓘ |
| followedBy | Outliers ⓘ |
| genre |
business literature
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nonfiction ⓘ psychology ⓘ self-help ⓘ |
| hasCaseStudy |
Amadou Diallo police shooting
ⓘ
linked to:
Shooting of Amadou Diallo
Emergency room heart attack triage ⓘ Getty kouros sculpture authenticity controversy ⓘ Improvisational comedy decision rules ⓘ Speed dating experiments ⓘ Tennis coach Vic Braden predicting double faults ⓘ Warren Harding error in political judgment ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780316172325 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bridging psychology research and everyday decision-making
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popularizing the concept of thin-slicing ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 300 ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Tipping Point ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2005-01-11 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| publisher | Little, Brown and Company ⓘ |
| sales | millions of copies sold worldwide ⓘ |
| subject |
cognitive psychology
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decision-making ⓘ intuition ⓘ thin-slicing ⓘ unconscious cognition ⓘ |
| subtitle | The Power of Thinking Without Thinking ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general readership ⓘ |
| title | Blink ⓘ |
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: Blink Description of subject: Blink is a bestselling nonfiction book by Malcolm Gladwell that explores the power and pitfalls of rapid, intuitive decision-making.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.