blog Overcoming Bias
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Overcoming Bias is a long-running blog by economist Robin Hanson that explores rationality, cognitive biases, futurism, and unconventional social and economic ideas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| blog Overcoming Bias canonical | 1 |
| overcomingbias.com | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1406276 — 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: blog Overcoming Bias Context triple: [Robin Hanson, knownFor, blog Overcoming Bias]
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A.
The Challenge of Facts
"The Challenge of Facts" is an influential essay by American sociologist and classical liberal thinker William Graham Sumner that critiques moralistic interference in social and economic processes and defends empirical, scientific analysis of society.
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B.
Monocultures of the Mind
Monocultures of the Mind is a book by environmental activist Vandana Shiva that critiques industrial agriculture and globalization for eroding biodiversity, indigenous knowledge, and cultural diversity.
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C.
Changing My Mind
"Changing My Mind" is a memoir by Margaret Trudeau in which she reflects on her life, struggles with mental illness, and journey toward recovery and advocacy.
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D.
Knowledge and Human Interests
Knowledge and Human Interests is a seminal 1968 work of critical social theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes how different human interests shape the forms and purposes of knowledge.
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E.
How We Think
How We Think is a foundational philosophical and educational work by John Dewey that analyzes the nature of reflective thought and its role in effective learning and problem-solving.
- 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: blog Overcoming Bias Target entity description: Overcoming Bias is a long-running blog by economist Robin Hanson that explores rationality, cognitive biases, futurism, and unconventional social and economic ideas.
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A.
The Challenge of Facts
"The Challenge of Facts" is an influential essay by American sociologist and classical liberal thinker William Graham Sumner that critiques moralistic interference in social and economic processes and defends empirical, scientific analysis of society.
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B.
Monocultures of the Mind
Monocultures of the Mind is a book by environmental activist Vandana Shiva that critiques industrial agriculture and globalization for eroding biodiversity, indigenous knowledge, and cultural diversity.
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C.
Changing My Mind
"Changing My Mind" is a memoir by Margaret Trudeau in which she reflects on her life, struggles with mental illness, and journey toward recovery and advocacy.
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D.
Knowledge and Human Interests
Knowledge and Human Interests is a seminal 1968 work of critical social theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes how different human interests shape the forms and purposes of knowledge.
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E.
How We Think
How We Think is a foundational philosophical and educational work by John Dewey that analyzes the nature of reflective thought and its role in effective learning and problem-solving.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blog
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economics blog ⓘ rationality blog ⓘ |
| associatedWith | LessWrong ⓘ |
| author | Robin Hanson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Robin Hanson ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cognitive bias reduction
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unconventional economic ideas ⓘ unconventional social ideas ⓘ |
| genre |
intellectual commentary
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philosophy commentary ⓘ science commentary ⓘ |
| hasAuthorAffiliation | George Mason University ⓘ |
| hasAuthorProfession | economist ⓘ |
| hasContributor | Eliezer Yudkowsky ⓘ |
| hasPart | blog post ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
forecasting
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human biases ⓘ institution design ⓘ social norms ⓘ technology and society ⓘ |
| hostedOn |
blog Overcoming Bias
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
overcomingbias.com
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| inception | 2006 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
AI risk
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cognitive biases ⓘ economics ⓘ epistemology ⓘ futurism ⓘ policy analysis ⓘ prediction markets ⓘ rationality ⓘ social science ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early discussion of rationality and biases online
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influencing the rationalist community ⓘ |
| publisher | self-published ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
economics enthusiasts
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futurism enthusiasts ⓘ rationality enthusiasts ⓘ |
| typicalFormat | essay-style posts ⓘ |
| websiteType | weblog ⓘ |
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: blog Overcoming Bias Description of subject: Overcoming Bias is a long-running blog by economist Robin Hanson that explores rationality, cognitive biases, futurism, and unconventional social and economic ideas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Overcoming Bias
this entity surface form:
overcomingbias.com