Anthropology
E591426
Anthropology is the holistic scientific study of humans, past and present, encompassing their cultures, societies, languages, and biological evolution.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anthropology canonical | 1 |
| Islamic anthropology | 1 |
| Sociologie et anthropologie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6385504 — 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: Anthropology Context triple: [Emotions, isStudiedIn, Anthropology]
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A.
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology is a leading peer-reviewed journal in the field of anthropology that publishes innovative research on contemporary cultural and social issues worldwide.
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B.
Anthropology Section
The Anthropology Section is a dedicated gallery within the Government Museum, Chennai, showcasing exhibits on human evolution, cultures, and social development.
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C.
Anthropology Library
The Anthropology Library is a specialized research library at UC Berkeley focused on anthropological and related social science materials.
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D.
Anthropology and Modern Life
"Anthropology and Modern Life" is a 1928 book by Franz Boas that applies anthropological insights to critique racism and cultural prejudice in contemporary society.
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E.
Anthropology News
Anthropology News is the American Anthropological Association’s flagship news magazine covering current issues, research, and perspectives in anthropology for both scholars and the broader public.
- 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: Anthropology Target entity description: Anthropology is the holistic scientific study of humans, past and present, encompassing their cultures, societies, languages, and biological evolution.
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A.
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology is a leading peer-reviewed journal in the field of anthropology that publishes innovative research on contemporary cultural and social issues worldwide.
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B.
Anthropology Section
The Anthropology Section is a dedicated gallery within the Government Museum, Chennai, showcasing exhibits on human evolution, cultures, and social development.
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C.
Anthropology Library
The Anthropology Library is a specialized research library at UC Berkeley focused on anthropological and related social science materials.
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D.
Anthropology and Modern Life
"Anthropology and Modern Life" is a 1928 book by Franz Boas that applies anthropological insights to critique racism and cultural prejudice in contemporary society.
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E.
Anthropology News
Anthropology News is the American Anthropological Association’s flagship news magazine covering current issues, research, and perspectives in anthropology for both scholars and the broader public.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic discipline
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field of study ⓘ science of humanity ⓘ social science ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
understand human universals
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understand human variation ⓘ |
| appliedIn |
business
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development studies ⓘ education ⓘ global health ⓘ human rights ⓘ public policy ⓘ |
| emergedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cultural diversity
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economic systems ⓘ human adaptation ⓘ human evolution ⓘ kinship systems ⓘ language use in social context ⓘ material culture ⓘ political systems ⓘ religious beliefs ⓘ social organization ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| hasApproach | holistic approach ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure |
Bronisław Malinowski
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Claude Lévi-Strauss ⓘ E. E. Evans-Pritchard ⓘ Edward Burnett Tylor ⓘ Franz Boas ⓘ Lewis Henry Morgan ⓘ
linked to:
Lewis H. Morgan
Marcel Mauss ⓘ Margaret Mead ⓘ Ruth Benedict ⓘ |
| hasOrganization |
American Anthropological Association
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European Association of Social Anthropologists ⓘ Royal Anthropological Institute ⓘ |
| hasSubdiscipline |
applied anthropology
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archaeology ⓘ biological anthropology ⓘ cultural anthropology ⓘ economic anthropology ⓘ environmental anthropology ⓘ forensic anthropology ⓘ linguistic anthropology ⓘ medical anthropology ⓘ physical anthropology ⓘ political anthropology ⓘ psychological anthropology ⓘ social anthropology ⓘ visual anthropology ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
archaeology
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biology ⓘ history ⓘ linguistics ⓘ psychology ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| studies |
human behavior
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human biological evolution ⓘ human cultures ⓘ human language ⓘ human societies ⓘ humans ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
comparative method
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ethnography ⓘ fieldwork ⓘ participant observation ⓘ qualitative research ⓘ quantitative research ⓘ |
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: Anthropology Description of subject: Anthropology is the holistic scientific study of humans, past and present, encompassing their cultures, societies, languages, and biological evolution.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Anthropology
linked to: Anthropology