Nice Guys Finish First
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"Nice Guys Finish First" is a chapter in Richard Dawkins' book *The Selfish Gene* that explores how cooperative behavior can evolve and persist through mechanisms like reciprocal altruism and game theory.
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| Nice Guys Finish First canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8913240 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nice Guys Finish First Context triple: [The Selfish Gene, hasChapter, Nice Guys Finish First]
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A.
Nice Guys Finish Last
"Nice Guys Finish Last" is a punk rock song by Green Day, best known as one of the singles from their 1997 album *Nimrod*.
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B.
The Good Guys
The Good Guys is an American comedic buddy-cop television series that follows a washed-up, old-school detective and his by-the-book partner as they bumble through crime-solving in Dallas.
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C.
Gentlemen
Gentlemen is the nickname and mascot identity for the men's athletic teams of Centenary College of Louisiana.
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The Nice Guys
The Nice Guys is a 2016 neo-noir action-comedy film directed by Shane Black, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as mismatched private investigators in 1970s Los Angeles.
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The Good Guy
"The Good Guy" is a 2009 romantic dramedy film about the complexities of modern relationships and Wall Street culture, starring Trini Alvarado among its cast.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nice Guys Finish First Target entity description: "Nice Guys Finish First" is a chapter in Richard Dawkins' book *The Selfish Gene* that explores how cooperative behavior can evolve and persist through mechanisms like reciprocal altruism and game theory.
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A.
Nice Guys Finish Last
"Nice Guys Finish Last" is a punk rock song by Green Day, best known as one of the singles from their 1997 album *Nimrod*.
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B.
The Good Guys
The Good Guys is an American comedic buddy-cop television series that follows a washed-up, old-school detective and his by-the-book partner as they bumble through crime-solving in Dallas.
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C.
Gentlemen
Gentlemen is the nickname and mascot identity for the men's athletic teams of Centenary College of Louisiana.
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D.
The Nice Guys
The Nice Guys is a 2016 neo-noir action-comedy film directed by Shane Black, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as mismatched private investigators in 1970s Los Angeles.
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E.
The Good Guy
"The Good Guy" is a 2009 romantic dramedy film about the complexities of modern relationships and Wall Street culture, starring Trini Alvarado among its cast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | book chapter ⓘ |
| arguesThat |
cooperative strategies can be evolutionarily stable
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natural selection can favor cooperation under certain conditions ⓘ |
| author | Richard Dawkins ⓘ |
| countryOfPublicationOfContainingWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| describesConcept |
Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma
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Prisoner’s Dilemma ⓘ altruism ⓘ selfish gene theory ⓘ tit-for-tat strategy ⓘ |
| explainsMechanism |
how cooperation can persist among self-interested individuals
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how reciprocal altruism can evolve ⓘ |
| field |
behavioral ecology
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evolutionary psychology ⓘ |
| genre | popular science ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | gene-centered view of evolution ⓘ |
| includedInEdition | first edition of The Selfish Gene ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
evolution of cooperation
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evolutionary biology ⓘ game theory ⓘ reciprocal altruism ⓘ |
| partOf | The Selfish Gene ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| publisherOfContainingWork | Oxford University Press ⓘ |
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Subject: Nice Guys Finish First Description of subject: "Nice Guys Finish First" is a chapter in Richard Dawkins' book *The Selfish Gene* that explores how cooperative behavior can evolve and persist through mechanisms like reciprocal altruism and game theory.
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