Thought and thinking
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Thought and thinking encompass the mental processes by which humans perceive, interpret, reason about, and generate ideas in response to the world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thought and thinking canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9980615 — 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: Thought and thinking Context triple: [The Stuff of Thought, hasSubjectCategory, Thought and thinking]
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A.
Thinking
Thinking is the first volume of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical work *The Life of the Mind*, in which she explores the nature, role, and implications of the activity of thought.
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B.
Think
"Think" is a 1968 soul anthem by Aretha Franklin, celebrated for its powerful vocals and feminist, freedom-focused message.
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C.
Think
Think is IBM’s iconic corporate slogan encapsulating its emphasis on innovation, problem-solving, and forward-looking technology.
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Thoughts
"Thoughts" is a philosophical work by Stephen Yablo that explores the nature of thought, content, and representation in the philosophy of mind and language.
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Deep Thinking
Deep Thinking is a book by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov that reflects on his matches against IBM’s Deep Blue and explores the broader implications of artificial intelligence for chess and human creativity.
- 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: Thought and thinking Target entity description: Thought and thinking encompass the mental processes by which humans perceive, interpret, reason about, and generate ideas in response to the world.
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A.
Thinking
Thinking is the first volume of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical work *The Life of the Mind*, in which she explores the nature, role, and implications of the activity of thought.
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B.
Think
"Think" is a 1968 soul anthem by Aretha Franklin, celebrated for its powerful vocals and feminist, freedom-focused message.
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C.
Think
Think is IBM’s iconic corporate slogan encapsulating its emphasis on innovation, problem-solving, and forward-looking technology.
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D.
Thoughts
"Thoughts" is a philosophical work by Stephen Yablo that explores the nature of thought, content, and representation in the philosophy of mind and language.
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E.
Deep Thinking
Deep Thinking is a book by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov that reflects on his matches against IBM’s Deep Blue and explores the broader implications of artificial intelligence for chess and human creativity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
abstract concept
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cognitive process ⓘ mental process ⓘ psychological phenomenon ⓘ |
| enables |
idea generation
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inference ⓘ learning ⓘ moral reasoning ⓘ prediction ⓘ self-reflection ⓘ understanding ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
cognitive science
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neuroscience ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
abstract thinking
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automatic thinking ⓘ concrete thinking ⓘ convergent thinking ⓘ creative thinking ⓘ critical thinking ⓘ daydreaming ⓘ divergent thinking ⓘ intuitive thinking ⓘ logical thinking ⓘ metacognition ⓘ planning ⓘ reasoned deliberation ⓘ reflective thinking ⓘ rumination ⓘ unconscious thinking ⓘ |
| hasSubprocess |
concept formation
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decision-making ⓘ evaluation ⓘ hypothesis generation ⓘ hypothesis testing ⓘ judgment formation ⓘ mental imagery ⓘ problem solving ⓘ reasoning ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
culture
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emotion ⓘ experience ⓘ language ⓘ motivation ⓘ |
| involves |
mental representation
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neural activity ⓘ symbol manipulation ⓘ |
| occursIn | human brain ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
attention
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consciousness ⓘ creativity ⓘ decision-making ⓘ emotion ⓘ imagination ⓘ judgment ⓘ language ⓘ memory ⓘ perception ⓘ problem solving ⓘ reasoning ⓘ |
| studiedBy |
cognitive scientists
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neuroscientists ⓘ philosophers ⓘ psychologists ⓘ |
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: Thought and thinking Description of subject: Thought and thinking encompass the mental processes by which humans perceive, interpret, reason about, and generate ideas in response to the world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.