forgetting curve
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The forgetting curve is a psychological model that describes how memory retention declines exponentially over time without reinforcement or review.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| forgetting curve canonical | 4 |
| Ebbinghaus forgetting function | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1348085 — 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: forgetting curve Context triple: [Hermann Ebbinghaus, knownFor, forgetting curve]
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A.
Cram
Cram is a surname most notably associated with Ralph Adams Cram, a prominent American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs.
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B.
Sutton's law
Sutton's law is a medical and diagnostic principle that advises focusing first on the most likely cause of a problem, echoing bank robber Willie Sutton’s apocryphal rationale for targeting banks.
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C.
Doesn’t Remind Me
"Doesn’t Remind Me" is a rock song by the American supergroup Audioslave, known for its introspective lyrics and dynamic blend of melodic verses with heavier, guitar-driven choruses.
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D.
Remember Me
"Remember Me" is a psychological suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark that follows a grieving mother who begins to suspect sinister forces at work when she moves into a seaside house with a tragic past.
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E.
Never Forget You
"Never Forget You" is a popular song best known as a 2015 dance-pop collaboration between British singer MNEK and Swedish singer Zara Larsson about enduring love and memory.
- 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: forgetting curve Target entity description: The forgetting curve is a psychological model that describes how memory retention declines exponentially over time without reinforcement or review.
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A.
Cram
Cram is a surname most notably associated with Ralph Adams Cram, a prominent American architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs.
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B.
Sutton's law
Sutton's law is a medical and diagnostic principle that advises focusing first on the most likely cause of a problem, echoing bank robber Willie Sutton’s apocryphal rationale for targeting banks.
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C.
Doesn’t Remind Me
"Doesn’t Remind Me" is a rock song by the American supergroup Audioslave, known for its introspective lyrics and dynamic blend of melodic verses with heavier, guitar-driven choruses.
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D.
Remember Me
"Remember Me" is a psychological suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark that follows a grieving mother who begins to suspect sinister forces at work when she moves into a seaside house with a tragic past.
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E.
Never Forget You
"Never Forget You" is a popular song best known as a 2015 dance-pop collaboration between British singer MNEK and Swedish singer Zara Larsson about enduring love and memory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
memory model
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psychological model ⓘ theoretical construct ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
human memory
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learned information ⓘ |
| assumes |
memory traces weaken over time
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no rehearsal leads to faster forgetting ⓘ |
| characterizedBy | exponential decline in retention ⓘ |
| dependsOn |
presence or absence of review
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strength of initial learning ⓘ time since learning ⓘ |
| describes | decline of memory retention over time ⓘ |
| hasImplication |
cramming leads to poor long-term retention
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periodic review improves long-term memory ⓘ |
| hasLimitation |
contextual and emotional factors not fully modeled
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individual differences in forgetting rates ⓘ task and material dependence ⓘ |
| hasMathematicalForm |
exponential decay function
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negatively accelerated function ⓘ |
| hasParameter |
initial retention level
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rate of forgetting ⓘ |
| implies | rapid initial forgetting followed by slower loss ⓘ |
| influenced |
spaced learning schedules
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spaced repetition techniques ⓘ |
| originatedFrom | experiments on nonsense syllables ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
forgetting curve
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ebbinghaus forgetting function
distributed practice ⓘ memory decay ⓘ overlearning ⓘ retention interval ⓘ spacing effect ⓘ |
| shows |
repetition can reset or raise retention level
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retention decreases as delay increases ⓘ |
| suggests |
most forgetting occurs soon after learning
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review slows forgetting ⓘ |
| usedIn |
educational psychology
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instructional design ⓘ learning and development ⓘ memory research ⓘ |
| usedTo |
design spaced repetition algorithms
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optimize review intervals ⓘ predict retention at future times ⓘ |
| visualizedAs | downward-sloping curve ⓘ |
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: forgetting curve Description of subject: The forgetting curve is a psychological model that describes how memory retention declines exponentially over time without reinforcement or review.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ebbinghaus forgetting function