Phantoms in the Brain
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Phantoms in the Brain is a popular neuroscience book by V. S. Ramachandran that explores how unusual neurological disorders reveal the workings of the human mind and brain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phantoms in the Brain canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9744049 — 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: Phantoms in the Brain Context triple: [V. S. Ramachandran, notableWork, Phantoms in the Brain]
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A.
Spotless Mind
"Spotless Mind" is a mellow, introspective R&B track by Jhené Aiko that explores themes of emotional detachment and transient relationships.
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B.
A Strangeness in My Mind
A Strangeness in My Mind is a novel by Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk that follows the life of a street vendor in Istanbul, exploring themes of love, migration, and the city’s rapid transformation.
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C.
Nine Track Mind
Nine Track Mind is the first studio album by American singer-songwriter Charlie Puth, featuring pop and R&B-influenced tracks that helped launch his mainstream music career.
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D.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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E.
The Sound in Your Mind
"The Sound in Your Mind" is a 1976 country album by Willie Nelson that blends original songs and covers in his signature outlaw country style.
- 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: Phantoms in the Brain Target entity description: Phantoms in the Brain is a popular neuroscience book by V. S. Ramachandran that explores how unusual neurological disorders reveal the workings of the human mind and brain.
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A.
Spotless Mind
"Spotless Mind" is a mellow, introspective R&B track by Jhené Aiko that explores themes of emotional detachment and transient relationships.
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B.
A Strangeness in My Mind
A Strangeness in My Mind is a novel by Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk that follows the life of a street vendor in Istanbul, exploring themes of love, migration, and the city’s rapid transformation.
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C.
Nine Track Mind
Nine Track Mind is the first studio album by American singer-songwriter Charlie Puth, featuring pop and R&B-influenced tracks that helped launch his mainstream music career.
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D.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
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E.
The Sound in Your Mind
"The Sound in Your Mind" is a 1976 country album by Willie Nelson that blends original songs and covers in his signature outlaw country style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
neuroscience book
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | V. S. Ramachandran ⓘ |
| basedOn | clinical work of V. S. Ramachandran ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Sandra Blakeslee ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| exploresConcept |
basis of consciousness
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mind–brain relationship ⓘ modularity of mind ⓘ neural representation of self ⓘ plasticity of the brain ⓘ |
| genre |
cognitive neuroscience
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popular science ⓘ |
| hasCaseStudy |
Capgras delusion
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anosognosia ⓘ hemispatial neglect ⓘ phantom limb pain ⓘ synesthesia ⓘ temporal lobe epilepsy ⓘ |
| hasIllustrations | yes ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
brain lesions
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cognitive deficits ⓘ neuropsychology ⓘ perceptual illusions ⓘ |
| influenced | public understanding of neuroscience ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
body image
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consciousness ⓘ human brain ⓘ human mind ⓘ neurological case studies ⓘ neurological disorders ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ phantom limb syndrome ⓘ visual perception ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing phantom limb research
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using neurological disorders to infer brain function ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| publisher |
HarperCollins
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William Morrow ⓘ |
| settingOfResearch | neurology clinics ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
accessible
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anecdotal ⓘ |
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: Phantoms in the Brain Description of subject: Phantoms in the Brain is a popular neuroscience book by V. S. Ramachandran that explores how unusual neurological disorders reveal the workings of the human mind and brain.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.