Unmasking the Face
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Unmasking the Face is a psychology book that explains how to recognize and interpret human emotions through facial expressions, co-authored by Paul Ekman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Unmasking the Face canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10000052 — 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: Unmasking the Face Context triple: [Paul Ekman, hasWritten, Unmasking the Face]
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A.
The Naked Face
The Naked Face is a psychological thriller novel by Sidney Sheldon that follows a psychoanalyst entangled in a deadly mystery after his patients are murdered.
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B.
Beneath the Mask
"Beneath the Mask" is a jazz fusion album by the Chick Corea Elektric Band that showcases the group's intricate compositions, virtuosic playing, and synth-driven contemporary sound.
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C.
Saving Face
"Saving Face" is a 2004 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Alice Wu that explores intergenerational and cultural tensions within a Chinese American community through the story of a closeted lesbian surgeon and her traditional mother.
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D.
Confessions of a Mask
Confessions of a Mask is a semi-autobiographical novel by Yukio Mishima that explores themes of hidden identity, sexuality, and alienation in postwar Japan.
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E.
Behind a Mask
"Behind a Mask" is a sensation-style novella by Louisa May Alcott, originally published under a pseudonym, that follows a cunning governess who deceives a wealthy family for personal gain.
- 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: Unmasking the Face Target entity description: Unmasking the Face is a psychology book that explains how to recognize and interpret human emotions through facial expressions, co-authored by Paul Ekman.
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A.
The Naked Face
The Naked Face is a psychological thriller novel by Sidney Sheldon that follows a psychoanalyst entangled in a deadly mystery after his patients are murdered.
-
B.
Beneath the Mask
"Beneath the Mask" is a jazz fusion album by the Chick Corea Elektric Band that showcases the group's intricate compositions, virtuosic playing, and synth-driven contemporary sound.
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C.
Saving Face
"Saving Face" is a 2004 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Alice Wu that explores intergenerational and cultural tensions within a Chinese American community through the story of a closeted lesbian surgeon and her traditional mother.
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D.
Confessions of a Mask
Confessions of a Mask is a semi-autobiographical novel by Yukio Mishima that explores themes of hidden identity, sexuality, and alienation in postwar Japan.
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E.
Behind a Mask
"Behind a Mask" is a sensation-style novella by Louisa May Alcott, originally published under a pseudonym, that follows a cunning governess who deceives a wealthy family for personal gain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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psychology book ⓘ |
| author |
Paul Ekman
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Wallace V. Friesen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| explains |
differences between genuine and false emotional expressions
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how to interpret subtle facial movements ⓘ how to recognize emotions from facial expressions ⓘ |
| field |
emotion research
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nonverbal communication ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cues to deception
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microexpressions ⓘ universal facial expressions of emotion ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
popular understanding of body language
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research on nonverbal behavior ⓘ training programs in law enforcement ⓘ training programs in security ⓘ |
| includes |
photographic examples of facial expressions
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step-by-step training exercises ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
professionals who need to read emotions
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psychologists ⓘ students ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
emotion recognition
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facial expressions ⓘ human emotions ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Emotions Revealed
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Facial Action Coding System ⓘ |
| usesTheoryOf |
basic emotions
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universality of facial expressions ⓘ |
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: Unmasking the Face Description of subject: Unmasking the Face is a psychology book that explains how to recognize and interpret human emotions through facial expressions, co-authored by Paul Ekman.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.