Lewis H. Morgan
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Lewis H. Morgan was a pioneering 19th-century American anthropologist and social theorist whose studies of kinship and social evolution profoundly shaped later Marxist and anthropological thought.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lewis H. Morgan canonical | 2 |
| Lewis Henry Morgan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2817148 — 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: Lewis H. Morgan Context triple: [The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, influencedBy, Lewis H. Morgan]
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A.
Robert H. Lowie
Robert H. Lowie was a prominent early 20th-century American anthropologist known for his influential studies of Native American cultures and his contributions to cultural anthropology theory.
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B.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas was a pioneering German-American anthropologist often regarded as the "father of American anthropology" for his foundational work in cultural relativism and field-based ethnographic research.
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C.
Melville J. Herskovits
Melville J. Herskovits was an American anthropologist known for pioneering African and African diaspora studies and for challenging racial and cultural biases in social science.
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D.
Alfred L. Kroeber
Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
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E.
Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton was an American anthropologist known for his work on culture and personality and for helping popularize key concepts such as status and role in social anthropology.
- 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: Lewis H. Morgan Target entity description: Lewis H. Morgan was a pioneering 19th-century American anthropologist and social theorist whose studies of kinship and social evolution profoundly shaped later Marxist and anthropological thought.
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A.
Robert H. Lowie
Robert H. Lowie was a prominent early 20th-century American anthropologist known for his influential studies of Native American cultures and his contributions to cultural anthropology theory.
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B.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas was a pioneering German-American anthropologist often regarded as the "father of American anthropology" for his foundational work in cultural relativism and field-based ethnographic research.
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C.
Melville J. Herskovits
Melville J. Herskovits was an American anthropologist known for pioneering African and African diaspora studies and for challenging racial and cultural biases in social science.
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D.
Alfred L. Kroeber
Alfred L. Kroeber was a pioneering American anthropologist known for his influential work on Native American cultures, linguistic anthropology, and the development of cultural anthropology in the United States.
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E.
Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton was an American anthropologist known for his work on culture and personality and for helping popularize key concepts such as status and role in social anthropology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ social theorist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1818-11-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1881-12-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Union College ⓘ |
| familyName | Morgan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anthropology
ⓘ
ethnology ⓘ kinship studies ⓘ social evolution ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| fullName |
Lewis H. Morgan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Lewis Henry Morgan
|
| givenName |
Henry
ⓘ
Lewis ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline | cultural anthropology ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century anthropology
ⓘ
Friedrich Engels ⓘ Karl Marx ⓘ later Marxist theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Iroquois political organization ⓘ |
| knownFor |
foundational work in kinship terminology
ⓘ
theory of social evolution from savagery to barbarism to civilization ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
Native American societies
ⓘ
kinship ⓘ social evolution ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Association for the Advancement of Science
ⓘ
New York State Assembly ⓘ |
| movement |
evolutionary anthropology
ⓘ
social evolutionism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ancient Society
ⓘ
Iroquois Confederacy ⓘ
surface form:
League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois
Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family ⓘ |
| occupation |
anthropologist
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ social theorist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Aurora, New York ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rochester, New York ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
member of the New York State Assembly
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president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studied |
Haudenosaunee
ⓘ
Haudenosaunee ⓘ
surface form:
Iroquois
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| workLocation | Rochester, New York ⓘ |
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Referenced by (3)
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this entity surface form:
Lewis Henry Morgan