Émile Durkheim
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Émile Durkheim was a pioneering French sociologist whose work on social cohesion, religion, and collective consciousness helped establish sociology as a distinct academic discipline.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Émile Durkheim canonical | 55 |
| Emile Durkheim | 2 |
| David Émile Durkheim | 1 |
| Durkheim | 1 |
| Marie Durkheim | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T251447 — 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: Émile Durkheim Context triple: [American civil religion, influencedBy, Émile Durkheim]
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A.
Max Weber
Max Weber was a pioneering German sociologist, economist, and political theorist whose work on bureaucracy, authority, and the Protestant ethic profoundly shaped modern social science.
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B.
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte was a 19th-century French philosopher who founded positivism and is often regarded as the father of sociology.
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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.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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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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: Émile Durkheim Target entity description: Émile Durkheim was a pioneering French sociologist whose work on social cohesion, religion, and collective consciousness helped establish sociology as a distinct academic discipline.
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A.
Max Weber
Max Weber was a pioneering German sociologist, economist, and political theorist whose work on bureaucracy, authority, and the Protestant ethic profoundly shaped modern social science.
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B.
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte was a 19th-century French philosopher who founded positivism and is often regarded as the father of sociology.
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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.
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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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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 (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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person ⓘ philosopher of social science ⓘ sociologist ⓘ |
| author |
Émile Durkheim
self-linksurface differs
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Émile Durkheim self-linksurface differs ⓘ Émile Durkheim self-linksurface differs ⓘ Émile Durkheim self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1858-04-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Épinal, Vosges, France ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| child |
Émile Durkheim
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Marie Durkheim
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| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1917-11-15 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Paris
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surface form:
Paris, France
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| educatedAt |
Panthéon-Sorbonne University
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surface form:
University of Paris
École Normale (Paris) ⓘ
surface form:
École Normale Supérieure
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| employer |
University of Bordeaux
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Panthéon-Sorbonne University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Paris
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| familyName |
Émile Durkheim
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Durkheim
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| fieldOfWork |
education
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philosophy of religion ⓘ social theory ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| fullName |
Émile Durkheim
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
David Émile Durkheim
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| givenName | Émile ⓘ |
| influenced |
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Marcel Mauss ⓘ Robert K. Merton ⓘ Talcott Parsons ⓘ structural functionalism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte
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surface form:
Auguste Comte
Montesquieu ⓘ |
| knownFor |
concept of collective consciousness
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founding sociology as an academic discipline in France ⓘ functionalism in sociology ⓘ sociological study of religion ⓘ study of social cohesion ⓘ theory of social facts ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
education
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law ⓘ morality ⓘ religion ⓘ social solidarity ⓘ |
| movement | functionalism ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Suicide: A Study in Sociology
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The Division of Labour in Society ⓘ The Elementary Forms of Religious Life ⓘ The Rules of Sociological Method ⓘ |
| occupation | professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chair of Education and Sociology at the University of Paris (Sorbonne)
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Professor of Social Science at the University of Bordeaux ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfWork | 1893 ⓘ |
| relative | Marcel Mauss ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| spouse | Louise Dreyfus ⓘ |
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Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
David Émile Durkheim
this entity surface form:
Durkheim
subject surface form:
The Division of Labour in Society
subject surface form:
The Rules of Sociological Method
subject surface form:
Suicide: A Study in Sociology
subject surface form:
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
this entity surface form:
Marie Durkheim
subject surface form:
Auguste Comte
subject surface form:
Auguste Comte
subject surface form:
Robert N. Bellah
this entity surface form:
Emile Durkheim
subject surface form:
Marcel Mauss