Things That Make Us Smart
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Things That Make Us Smart is a book by cognitive scientist Donald A. Norman that explores how well-designed tools and technologies can enhance human thinking and problem-solving.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14342110 — 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: Things That Make Us Smart Context triple: [Donald A. Norman, notableWork, Things That Make Us Smart]
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How We Learn
How We Learn is a popular science book by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene that explains the brain mechanisms underlying learning and how they can inform more effective education.
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Fuzzy Sapiens
Fuzzy Sapiens is a science fiction novel by Henry Beam Piper that continues the story of the small, intelligent alien "Fuzzies" and their struggle for recognition as sentient beings.
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C.
Smart People
Smart People is a 2008 comedy-drama film about a widowed, self-absorbed literature professor whose life is upended by unexpected family and romantic developments.
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D.
The Learners
"The Learners" is a novel by renowned graphic designer and author Chip Kidd that continues the story from his debut book "The Cheese Monkeys," following a young art student navigating the world of graphic design and advertising in the early 1960s.
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E.
The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way
The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way is a philosophical critique by Jerry Fodor challenging mainstream computational and evolutionary psychology accounts of how the human mind operates.
- 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: Things That Make Us Smart Target entity description: Things That Make Us Smart is a book by cognitive scientist Donald A. Norman that explores how well-designed tools and technologies can enhance human thinking and problem-solving.
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A.
How We Learn
How We Learn is a popular science book by cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene that explains the brain mechanisms underlying learning and how they can inform more effective education.
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B.
Fuzzy Sapiens
Fuzzy Sapiens is a science fiction novel by Henry Beam Piper that continues the story of the small, intelligent alien "Fuzzies" and their struggle for recognition as sentient beings.
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C.
Smart People
Smart People is a 2008 comedy-drama film about a widowed, self-absorbed literature professor whose life is upended by unexpected family and romantic developments.
-
D.
The Learners
"The Learners" is a novel by renowned graphic designer and author Chip Kidd that continues the story from his debut book "The Cheese Monkeys," following a young art student navigating the world of graphic design and advertising in the early 1960s.
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E.
The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way
The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way is a philosophical critique by Jerry Fodor challenging mainstream computational and evolutionary psychology accounts of how the human mind operates.
- F. None of above. chosen
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