Steven Rose
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Steven Rose is a British neuroscientist and author known for his critiques of genetic determinism and his popular science writing on brain and behavior.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steven Rose canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8846006 — 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: Steven Rose Context triple: [Richard Lewontin, coAuthor, Steven Rose]
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A.
Russell Dennett
Russell Dennett is a British musician best known for his work as a member of the influential synth-pop band The Human League.
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B.
Patricia Churchland
Patricia Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher renowned for her pioneering work in neurophilosophy, exploring how neuroscience informs and reshapes traditional questions in philosophy of mind and ethics.
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C.
Norman E. Thagard
Norman E. Thagard is an American physician, former U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut who became the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
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D.
Jerry Fodor
Jerry Fodor was an influential American philosopher and cognitive scientist best known for his work on the philosophy of mind, particularly the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypothesis.
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E.
Paul Dennett
Paul Dennett is a British Labour politician who serves as the directly elected Mayor of Salford, overseeing local governance and strategic development in the city.
- 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: Steven Rose Target entity description: Steven Rose is a British neuroscientist and author known for his critiques of genetic determinism and his popular science writing on brain and behavior.
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A.
Russell Dennett
Russell Dennett is a British musician best known for his work as a member of the influential synth-pop band The Human League.
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B.
Patricia Churchland
Patricia Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher renowned for her pioneering work in neurophilosophy, exploring how neuroscience informs and reshapes traditional questions in philosophy of mind and ethics.
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C.
Norman E. Thagard
Norman E. Thagard is an American physician, former U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut who became the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
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D.
Jerry Fodor
Jerry Fodor was an influential American philosopher and cognitive scientist best known for his work on the philosophy of mind, particularly the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypothesis.
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E.
Paul Dennett
Paul Dennett is a British Labour politician who serves as the directly elected Mayor of Salford, overseeing local governance and strategic development in the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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neuroscientist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Biological Sciences Prize of the Royal Society of Medicine ⓘ |
| birthName | Steven Peter Russell Rose ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Hilary Rose
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Richard C. Lewontin ⓘ
linked to:
Richard Lewontin
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Cambridge
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linked to:
Cambridge University
University of London ⓘ |
| employer | The Open University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biology
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neuroscience ⓘ philosophy of biology ⓘ science communication ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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popular science ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
cognitive science
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neurobiology ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
brain plasticity
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learning ⓘ memory ⓘ philosophical implications of biology ⓘ |
| hasRole |
public intellectual
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science popularizer ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Hilary Rose ⓘ |
| knownFor |
critiques of genetic determinism
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popular science writing on brain and behavior ⓘ work on memory and the brain ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
critique of evolutionary psychology
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critique of sociobiology ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology
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Lifelines: Biology, Freedom, Determinism ⓘ The Making of Memory ⓘ |
| opposes |
genetic determinism
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reductionist accounts of human behavior ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of biology at the Open University ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Milton Keynes ⓘ |
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: Steven Rose Description of subject: Steven Rose is a British neuroscientist and author known for his critiques of genetic determinism and his popular science writing on brain and behavior.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.