Eleanor J. Gibson
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Eleanor J. Gibson was an influential American psychologist best known for her pioneering work on perceptual learning and development, including the famous "visual cliff" experiments with infants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eleanor J. Gibson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4861949 — 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: Eleanor J. Gibson Context triple: [Gibson, hasNotableBearer, Eleanor J. Gibson]
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A.
Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson
Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson is the daughter of Canadian author Margaret Atwood and her partner, novelist Graeme Gibson.
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B.
Paul Mowrer
Paul Mowrer was an American journalist and foreign correspondent who won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1929.
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C.
George R. Kelly
George R. Kelly, better known as "Machine Gun Kelly," was a notorious American gangster and bootlegger of the Prohibition era, infamous for his involvement in kidnappings and other violent crimes.
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D.
Bärbel Inhelder
Bärbel Inhelder was a Swiss developmental psychologist best known for her influential collaboration with Jean Piaget on children's cognitive development.
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E.
Wolfgang Köhler
Wolfgang Köhler was a German psychologist and key figure in Gestalt psychology, known for his pioneering research on insight learning and problem-solving in animals.
- 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: Eleanor J. Gibson Target entity description: Eleanor J. Gibson was an influential American psychologist best known for her pioneering work on perceptual learning and development, including the famous "visual cliff" experiments with infants.
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A.
Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson
Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson is the daughter of Canadian author Margaret Atwood and her partner, novelist Graeme Gibson.
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B.
Paul Mowrer
Paul Mowrer was an American journalist and foreign correspondent who won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1929.
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C.
George R. Kelly
George R. Kelly, better known as "Machine Gun Kelly," was a notorious American gangster and bootlegger of the Prohibition era, infamous for his involvement in kidnappings and other violent crimes.
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D.
Bärbel Inhelder
Bärbel Inhelder was a Swiss developmental psychologist best known for her influential collaboration with Jean Piaget on children's cognitive development.
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E.
Wolfgang Köhler
Wolfgang Köhler was a German psychologist and key figure in Gestalt psychology, known for his pioneering research on insight learning and problem-solving in animals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American psychologist
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person ⓘ psychologist ⓘ |
| approach | Gibsonian ecological psychology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
NERFINISHED
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James McKeen Cattell Award NERFINISHED ⓘ National Medal of Science ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Smith College
NERFINISHED
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Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Cornell University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Gibson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
developmental psychology
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experimental psychology ⓘ perception ⓘ perceptual learning ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| fullName | Eleanor Jack Gibson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Eleanor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Clark L. Hull NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
developmental psychology of perception
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ecological theories of perception ⓘ |
| influencedBy | James J. Gibson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ecological approach to perception
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research on perceptual development ⓘ research on perceptual learning ⓘ visual cliff experiment ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American Psychological Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Anne Treisman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
An Odyssey in Learning and Perception
NERFINISHED
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Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development NERFINISHED ⓘ The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
psychologist
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university teacher ⓘ |
| researchSubject |
animals
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children ⓘ infants ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | James J. Gibson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Ithaca, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Eleanor J. Gibson Description of subject: Eleanor J. Gibson was an influential American psychologist best known for her pioneering work on perceptual learning and development, including the famous "visual cliff" experiments with infants.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.