Mauss

E684990

anthropologist human sociologist surname

Mauss is the surname of Marcel Mauss, the influential French sociologist and anthropologist known for his seminal work on gift exchange and social theory.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Mauss canonical	1

Statements (33)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	anthropologist ⓘ human ⓘ sociologist ⓘ surname ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Bordeaux NERFINISHED ⓘ École pratique des hautes études NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	Collège de France NERFINISHED ⓘ École pratique des hautes études NERFINISHED ⓘ
familyName	Mauss NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	anthropology ⓘ ethnology ⓘ sociology ⓘ
influenced	Claude Lévi-Strauss NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre Bourdieu NERFINISHED ⓘ economic anthropology ⓘ sociology of exchange ⓘ
languageOfOrigin	French ⓘ German ⓘ
mainInterest	economy ⓘ gift exchange ⓘ religion ⓘ social theory ⓘ
movement	Durkheimian school NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationality	French ⓘ
notableWork	Essai sur le don NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gift NERFINISHED ⓘ
relative	Émile Durkheim NERFINISHED ⓘ
theoreticalContribution	analysis of reciprocity ⓘ concept of techniques of the body ⓘ concept of total social fact ⓘ theory of gift exchange ⓘ
usedByPerson	Marcel Mauss NERFINISHED ⓘ
workLocation	Paris ⓘ

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: Mauss
Description of subject: Mauss is the surname of Marcel Mauss, the influential French sociologist and anthropologist known for his seminal work on gift exchange and social theory.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Marcel Mauss → familyName → Mauss ⓘ