Trivers
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Trivers is the surname of Robert Trivers, an influential evolutionary biologist known for his pioneering work on social evolution and reciprocal altruism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Trivers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8846029 — 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: Trivers Context triple: [Robert Trivers, familyName, Trivers]
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A.
The Mating Season
The Mating Season is a 1951 American comedy film best known for Thelma Ritter’s acclaimed, Oscar-nominated performance as a working-class mother who complicates her son’s marriage.
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B.
التكاثر
التكاثر هي سورة مكية قصيرة في القرآن الكريم تتناول انشغال الناس بالتكاثر في المال والأولاد حتى يغفلوا عن الآخرة.
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C.
Fathers and Crows
Fathers and Crows is a historical novel by William T. Vollmann that explores the violent and complex encounters between French colonizers and Indigenous peoples in 17th-century North America.
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D.
Paar
Paar is a surname most notably associated with American television host and comedian Jack Paar, a pioneering figure of late-night talk shows.
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E.
Paar
"Paar" is a critically acclaimed Indian film directed by Goutam Ghose, known for its stark portrayal of social injustice and rural hardship.
- 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: Trivers Target entity description: Trivers is the surname of Robert Trivers, an influential evolutionary biologist known for his pioneering work on social evolution and reciprocal altruism.
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A.
The Mating Season
The Mating Season is a 1951 American comedy film best known for Thelma Ritter’s acclaimed, Oscar-nominated performance as a working-class mother who complicates her son’s marriage.
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B.
التكاثر
التكاثر هي سورة مكية قصيرة في القرآن الكريم تتناول انشغال الناس بالتكاثر في المال والأولاد حتى يغفلوا عن الآخرة.
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C.
Fathers and Crows
Fathers and Crows is a historical novel by William T. Vollmann that explores the violent and complex encounters between French colonizers and Indigenous peoples in 17th-century North America.
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D.
Paar
Paar is a surname most notably associated with American television host and comedian Jack Paar, a pioneering figure of late-night talk shows.
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E.
Paar
"Paar" is a critically acclaimed Indian film directed by Goutam Ghose, known for its stark portrayal of social injustice and rural hardship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
evolutionary biologist
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person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
reciprocal altruism
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social evolution ⓘ |
| associatedWithDiscipline | evolutionary biology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
behavioral ecology
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evolutionary biology ⓘ social evolution ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Robert Trivers ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Trivers ⓘ |
| influenced |
behavioral ecology
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evolutionary psychology ⓘ sociobiology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
parental investment theory
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parent–offspring conflict theory ⓘ self-deception theory ⓘ theory of reciprocal altruism ⓘ work on social evolution ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
biologist
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professor ⓘ |
| usedAsSurnameBy | Robert Trivers ⓘ |
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: Trivers Description of subject: Trivers is the surname of Robert Trivers, an influential evolutionary biologist known for his pioneering work on social evolution and reciprocal altruism.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Trivers