"The Doctor and the Soul"
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"The Doctor and the Soul" is a seminal book by Viktor Frankl that explores his logotherapy approach, emphasizing the human search for meaning as central to psychological healing and existential fulfillment.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Doctor and the Soul | 2 |
| "The Doctor and the Soul" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T348880 — 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: "The Doctor and the Soul" Context triple: [Viktor Frankl, notableWork, "The Doctor and the Soul"]
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A.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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B.
The Faith Healers
The Faith Healers is a non-fiction book by skeptic and magician James Randi that critically investigates and exposes the methods and fraud behind purported faith healing practices.
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C.
The Theatre of Dreams
The Theatre of Dreams is the famous moniker for Manchester United’s iconic Old Trafford stadium, renowned for its rich footballing history and passionate atmosphere.
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D.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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E.
A Call from Heaven
"A Call from Heaven" is a 17th-century religious work by Puritan minister Increase Mather that exhorts readers to piety and spiritual preparation for death and the afterlife.
- 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: "The Doctor and the Soul" Target entity description: "The Doctor and the Soul" is a seminal book by Viktor Frankl that explores his logotherapy approach, emphasizing the human search for meaning as central to psychological healing and existential fulfillment.
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A.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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B.
The Faith Healers
The Faith Healers is a non-fiction book by skeptic and magician James Randi that critically investigates and exposes the methods and fraud behind purported faith healing practices.
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C.
The Theatre of Dreams
The Theatre of Dreams is the famous moniker for Manchester United’s iconic Old Trafford stadium, renowned for its rich footballing history and passionate atmosphere.
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D.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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E.
A Call from Heaven
"A Call from Heaven" is a 17th-century religious work by Puritan minister Increase Mather that exhorts readers to piety and spiritual preparation for death and the afterlife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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existentialist work ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ psychology book ⓘ |
| addresses |
ethical questions in medical practice
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existential crises ⓘ meaning in life and death ⓘ relationship between psychiatry and religion ⓘ |
| arguesThat |
human beings remain free to choose their attitude
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meaning is central to psychological healing ⓘ spiritual concerns are legitimate topics for psychotherapy ⓘ suffering can be given meaning ⓘ |
| author | Viktor Frankl ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Austria ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
ethical responsibility of the physician
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existential frustration ⓘ human search for meaning ⓘ noögenic neuroses ⓘ relationship between medicine and spirituality ⓘ role of meaning in mental health ⓘ |
| genre |
clinical psychology
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existential psychology ⓘ philosophy of psychiatry ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
existential vacuum
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noödynamics ⓘ will to meaning ⓘ |
| influencedField |
counseling
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existential analysis ⓘ pastoral care ⓘ psychotherapy ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
pastoral counselors
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physicians ⓘ psychotherapists ⓘ students of psychology ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
existential analysis
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freedom of will ⓘ logotherapy ⓘ psychotherapy ⓘ responsibility ⓘ search for meaning ⓘ spiritual dimension of human life ⓘ suffering and meaning ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Ärztliche Seelsorge ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | existentialism ⓘ |
| psychologicalApproach | logotherapy ⓘ |
| psychologicalSchool | humanistic psychology ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Man's Search for Meaning ⓘ |
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: "The Doctor and the Soul" Description of subject: "The Doctor and the Soul" is a seminal book by Viktor Frankl that explores his logotherapy approach, emphasizing the human search for meaning as central to psychological healing and existential fulfillment.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.