The big brain
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The big brain is a chapter from Susan Blackmore's book "The Meme Machine" that explores how human intelligence and large brains evolved in connection with the spread and competition of memes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The big brain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3805641 — 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: The big brain Context triple: [The Meme Machine, hasChapter, The big brain]
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A.
Look Ma, No Brains!
"Look Ma, No Brains!" is a song by the American punk rock band Saviors.
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B.
The Man with Two Brains
The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 sci-fi comedy film starring Steve Martin as a brilliant but eccentric brain surgeon who falls in love with a disembodied brain.
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C.
Old Brains
Old Brains was the nickname of Henry W. Halleck, a prominent Union Army general and military theorist during the American Civil War.
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D.
The Human Brain
The Human Brain is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, function, and mysteries of the human brain for a general audience.
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E.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
- 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: The big brain Target entity description: The big brain is a chapter from Susan Blackmore's book "The Meme Machine" that explores how human intelligence and large brains evolved in connection with the spread and competition of memes.
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A.
Look Ma, No Brains!
"Look Ma, No Brains!" is a song by the American punk rock band Saviors.
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B.
The Man with Two Brains
The Man with Two Brains is a 1983 sci-fi comedy film starring Steve Martin as a brilliant but eccentric brain surgeon who falls in love with a disembodied brain.
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C.
Old Brains
Old Brains was the nickname of Henry W. Halleck, a prominent Union Army general and military theorist during the American Civil War.
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D.
The Human Brain
The Human Brain is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, function, and mysteries of the human brain for a general audience.
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E.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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book chapter ⓘ literary work ⓘ person ⓘ |
| argues |
that cultural transmission can influence biological evolution
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that memes created new selection pressures favoring larger brains ⓘ |
| author | Susan Blackmore ⓘ |
| explores |
how competition between memes may have driven brain expansion
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how human intelligence evolved in connection with the spread of memes ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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popular science ⓘ |
| includedIn | first edition of The Meme Machine ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
cultural evolution
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evolution of human intelligence ⓘ evolution of large human brains ⓘ gene–meme coevolution ⓘ memes ⓘ memetics ⓘ selection pressures from memes ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Meme Machine ⓘ |
| occupation |
psychologist
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writer ⓘ |
| partOf | The Meme Machine ⓘ |
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: The big brain Description of subject: The big brain is a chapter from Susan Blackmore's book "The Meme Machine" that explores how human intelligence and large brains evolved in connection with the spread and competition of memes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.