Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding
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Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding is a book by Daniel Patrick Moynihan that critically examines the failures and unintended consequences of U.S. federal anti-poverty and social welfare programs in the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
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| Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2688717 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding Context triple: [Daniel Patrick Moynihan, notableWork, Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding]
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A.
Misunderstood
"Misunderstood" is a reflective hip-hop track by Common that explores themes of alienation, judgment, and inner struggle.
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B.
Knowledge and Error
"Knowledge and Error" is a philosophical work by Ernst Mach that examines the nature, limits, and development of human knowledge through the lens of empirical science and psychology.
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C.
Margin for Error
"Margin for Error" is a 1939 satirical play by Clare Boothe Luce that blends comedy and political commentary around a murder mystery involving a Nazi consul in New York.
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D.
Moore's paradox
Moore's paradox is a philosophical problem highlighting the oddity of asserting a sentence like "It is raining, but I don't believe that it is raining," which seems logically consistent yet pragmatically absurd.
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E.
Logic Taught by Love
Logic Taught by Love is an educational work by Mary Everest Boole that explores how to teach logical and mathematical thinking to children through intuitive, emotionally engaging methods.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding Target entity description: Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding is a book by Daniel Patrick Moynihan that critically examines the failures and unintended consequences of U.S. federal anti-poverty and social welfare programs in the 1960s.
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A.
Misunderstood
"Misunderstood" is a reflective hip-hop track by Common that explores themes of alienation, judgment, and inner struggle.
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B.
Knowledge and Error
"Knowledge and Error" is a philosophical work by Ernst Mach that examines the nature, limits, and development of human knowledge through the lens of empirical science and psychology.
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C.
Margin for Error
"Margin for Error" is a 1939 satirical play by Clare Boothe Luce that blends comedy and political commentary around a murder mystery involving a Nazi consul in New York.
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D.
Moore's paradox
Moore's paradox is a philosophical problem highlighting the oddity of asserting a sentence like "It is raining, but I don't believe that it is raining," which seems logically consistent yet pragmatically absurd.
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E.
Logic Taught by Love
Logic Taught by Love is an educational work by Mary Everest Boole that explores how to teach logical and mathematical thinking to children through intuitive, emotionally engaging methods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| author | Daniel Patrick Moynihan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticizes |
Office of Economic Opportunity
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surface form:
Office of Economic Opportunity programs
community action agencies ⓘ maximum feasible participation requirement ⓘ |
| discusses |
administrative capacity
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federal-local relations ⓘ local governance ⓘ participatory democracy in social programs ⓘ policy analysis ⓘ program evaluation ⓘ role of experts in policymaking ⓘ |
| field |
political science
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public policy ⓘ social policy studies ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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political science book ⓘ public policy book ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
critical of federal anti-poverty policy design
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emphasizes unintended consequences of policy ⓘ skeptical of top-down social engineering ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
bureaucratic incentives and behavior
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complexity of social problems ⓘ gap between policy intent and outcomes ⓘ limits of government intervention in poverty ⓘ miscommunication between policymakers and communities ⓘ politics of poverty programs ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's experience as a policy adviser
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Great Society legislation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Great Society
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surface form:
Great Society programs
U.S. federal anti-poverty programs ⓘ Great Society ⓘ
surface form:
War on Poverty
community action programs ⓘ federal bureaucracy ⓘ policy implementation failures ⓘ poverty in the United States ⓘ race and poverty in the United States ⓘ social welfare policy in the United States ⓘ unintended consequences of social policy ⓘ urban policy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of community action program failures
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early critique of the War on Poverty ⓘ influence on debates about social policy design ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed |
1960s
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Great Society ⓘ
surface form:
War on Poverty era
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