Stanley Milgram
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Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist best known for his groundbreaking obedience experiments that explored individuals’ willingness to follow authority figures even when asked to harm others.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stanley Milgram canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5490041 — 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: Stanley Milgram Context triple: [Stanley, notableBearer, Stanley Milgram]
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A.
Maurice Milgram
Maurice Milgram was a French computer scientist and academic known for his contributions to pattern recognition and for supervising Yann LeCun’s doctoral research.
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B.
Solomon Asch
Solomon Asch was a pioneering social psychologist best known for his groundbreaking experiments on conformity and the influence of group pressure on individual judgments.
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C.
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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Morton Deutsch
Morton Deutsch was a pioneering American social psychologist renowned for his foundational work on cooperation, competition, and conflict resolution.
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E.
Albert Band
Albert Band was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in low-budget genre films and collaborations with independent studios.
- 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: Stanley Milgram Target entity description: Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist best known for his groundbreaking obedience experiments that explored individuals’ willingness to follow authority figures even when asked to harm others.
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A.
Maurice Milgram
Maurice Milgram was a French computer scientist and academic known for his contributions to pattern recognition and for supervising Yann LeCun’s doctoral research.
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B.
Solomon Asch
Solomon Asch was a pioneering social psychologist best known for his groundbreaking experiments on conformity and the influence of group pressure on individual judgments.
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C.
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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D.
Morton Deutsch
Morton Deutsch was a pioneering American social psychologist renowned for his foundational work on cooperation, competition, and conflict resolution.
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E.
Albert Band
Albert Band was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in low-budget genre films and collaborations with independent studios.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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social psychologist ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in social psychology ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-08-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1984-12-20 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Gordon Allport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
Queens College, City University of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
City University of New York
NERFINISHED
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Harvard University ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Milgram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
experimental psychology
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obedience to authority ⓘ social psychology ⓘ |
| fullName | Stanley Milgram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Stanley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthicalControversy | raised debates about research ethics in psychology ⓘ |
| influenced |
Philip Zimbardo
NERFINISHED
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social psychology of obedience ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Solomon Asch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Milgram experiment
NERFINISHED
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lost-letter experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ obedience to authority experiments ⓘ six degrees of separation research ⓘ small-world experiment ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
six degrees of separation
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small-world network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of psychology ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfNotableWork | 1974 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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New Haven, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Stanley Milgram Description of subject: Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist best known for his groundbreaking obedience experiments that explored individuals’ willingness to follow authority figures even when asked to harm others.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.