Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pioneering French anthropologist and ethnologist whose structuralist analyses of myth and culture profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Claude Lévi-Strauss canonical | 30 |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | 1 |
| Lévi-Strauss | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T225886 — 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: Claude Lévi-Strauss Context triple: [Humboldt University of Berlin, hasNotableAlumni, Claude Lévi-Strauss]
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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.
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B.
Kirkpatrick Durham
Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
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C.
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist and public intellectual known for his influential theories on social capital, habitus, and the reproduction of social inequality.
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D.
Paul Radin
Paul Radin was an American anthropologist and folklorist known for his pioneering work on Native American cultures, languages, and religions, particularly among the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) people.
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E.
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.
- 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: Claude Lévi-Strauss Target entity description: Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pioneering French anthropologist and ethnologist whose structuralist analyses of myth and culture profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.
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A.
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.
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B.
Kirkpatrick Durham
Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
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C.
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist and public intellectual known for his influential theories on social capital, habitus, and the reproduction of social inequality.
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D.
Paul Radin
Paul Radin was an American anthropologist and folklorist known for his pioneering work on Native American cultures, languages, and religions, particularly among the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) people.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
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ethnologist ⓘ human ⓘ structuralist thinker ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Erasmus Prize
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Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur ⓘ
surface form:
Grand-croix of the Légion d'honneur
Ordre national du Mérite ⓘ
surface form:
Grand-croix of the Ordre national du Mérite
Nonino Prize ⓘ
surface form:
International Nonino Prize
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| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1908-11-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2009-10-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
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La Sorbonne ⓘ
surface form:
Sorbonne
Panthéon-Sorbonne University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Paris
|
| employer |
Collège de France
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École pratique des hautes études ⓘ |
| familyName |
Claude Lévi-Strauss
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Lévi-Strauss
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| fieldOfWork |
ethnology
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linguistic anthropology ⓘ mythology ⓘ social anthropology ⓘ |
| fullName | Claude Lévi-Strauss self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Claude ⓘ |
| influenced |
Jacques Derrida
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Michel Foucault ⓘ Roland Barthes ⓘ structural anthropology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Marcel Mauss ⓘ Émile Durkheim ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie française
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Collège de France ⓘ |
| movement | structuralism ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
application of structuralism to anthropology
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binary oppositions in culture ⓘ structural analysis of myth ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mythologiques
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Structural Anthropology ⓘ The Elementary Structures of Kinship ⓘ The Savage Mind ⓘ Tristes Tropiques ⓘ |
| occupation |
anthropologist
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ethnologist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Belgium
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Brussels, Belgium ⓘ
surface form:
Brussels
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| placeOfDeath |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chair of social anthropology at Collège de France
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professor at Collège de France ⓘ |
| religion | atheism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Claude Lévi-Strauss Description of subject: Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pioneering French anthropologist and ethnologist whose structuralist analyses of myth and culture profoundly shaped 20th-century social theory.
Referenced by (32)
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this entity surface form:
Lévi-Strauss
this entity surface form:
Claude Levi-Strauss
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subject surface form:
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