book: Boot Camp for the Brain
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"Boot Camp for the Brain" is a book by psychological illusionist Derren Brown that offers mental exercises and insights designed to sharpen thinking and challenge everyday assumptions.
All labels observed (1)
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| book: Boot Camp for the Brain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8030643 — 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: book: Boot Camp for the Brain Context triple: [Derren Brown, notableWork, book: Boot Camp for the Brain]
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A.
book The Elephant in the Brain
The Elephant in the Brain is a non-fiction book that explores the hidden, often self-serving motives behind human behavior and social institutions.
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B.
The Human Brain
The Human Brain is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, function, and mysteries of the human brain for a general audience.
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C.
The Job That Ate My Brain
"The Job That Ate My Brain" is a punk rock song by the Ramones, featured on their 1992 album *Mondo Bizarro*.
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D.
Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind
"Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind" is a scholarly book that critically examines how contemporary neuroscience reshapes understandings of the mind, behavior, and social governance.
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E.
Billion Dollar Brain
Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British spy film in the Harry Palmer series, directed by Ken Russell and starring Michael Caine as the bespectacled secret agent.
- 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: book: Boot Camp for the Brain Target entity description: "Boot Camp for the Brain" is a book by psychological illusionist Derren Brown that offers mental exercises and insights designed to sharpen thinking and challenge everyday assumptions.
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A.
book The Elephant in the Brain
The Elephant in the Brain is a non-fiction book that explores the hidden, often self-serving motives behind human behavior and social institutions.
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B.
The Human Brain
The Human Brain is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, function, and mysteries of the human brain for a general audience.
-
C.
The Job That Ate My Brain
"The Job That Ate My Brain" is a punk rock song by the Ramones, featured on their 1992 album *Mondo Bizarro*.
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D.
Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind
"Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind" is a scholarly book that critically examines how contemporary neuroscience reshapes understandings of the mind, behavior, and social governance.
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E.
Billion Dollar Brain
Billion Dollar Brain is a 1967 British spy film in the Harry Palmer series, directed by Ken Russell and starring Michael Caine as the bespectacled secret agent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| about |
how beliefs are formed
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how people think ⓘ how perception can be misleading ⓘ |
| author | Derren Brown ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Derren Brown ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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popular psychology book ⓘ self-help book ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation | psychological illusionist ⓘ |
| hasPart |
mental exercises
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practical tips ⓘ thought experiments ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general audience
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readers interested in psychology ⓘ readers interested in self-improvement ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
assumptions in everyday life
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cognitive biases ⓘ critical thinking ⓘ decision-making ⓘ mental exercises ⓘ perception ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| mediaType |
book
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print ⓘ |
| purpose |
to challenge everyday assumptions
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to sharpen thinking ⓘ |
| workOf | Derren Brown ⓘ |
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: book: Boot Camp for the Brain Description of subject: "Boot Camp for the Brain" is a book by psychological illusionist Derren Brown that offers mental exercises and insights designed to sharpen thinking and challenge everyday assumptions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.