the book "The Population Bomb"
E78711
"The Population Bomb" is a 1968 book by biologist Paul R. Ehrlich that famously warned of imminent global overpopulation crises and helped spark widespread debate about population growth and environmental limits.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Population Bomb | 3 |
| "The Population Bomb" | 1 |
| the book "The Population Bomb" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T627870 — 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.
Target entity: the book "The Population Bomb" Context triple: [Paul R. Ehrlich, knownFor, the book "The Population Bomb"]
-
A.
Malthusian catastrophe
A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
-
B.
Populorum progressio
Populorum progressio is a 1967 papal encyclical that addresses global economic justice, development of peoples, and the moral dimensions of poverty and inequality.
-
C.
Battle for Grain
The Battle for Grain was a major Fascist Italian agricultural policy initiative launched by Benito Mussolini in the 1920s to boost domestic wheat production and reduce reliance on foreign imports.
-
D.
Walden Two
Walden Two is a utopian novel by behaviorist B. F. Skinner that depicts a community engineered through behavioral principles to maximize social harmony and individual well-being.
-
E.
Poverty and Famines
Poverty and Famines is a seminal book by economist Amartya Sen that revolutionized the understanding of famine by arguing that they result more from failures of access and entitlement than from food shortages alone.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: the book "The Population Bomb" Target entity description: "The Population Bomb" is a 1968 book by biologist Paul R. Ehrlich that famously warned of imminent global overpopulation crises and helped spark widespread debate about population growth and environmental limits.
-
A.
Malthusian catastrophe
A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
-
B.
Populorum progressio
Populorum progressio is a 1967 papal encyclical that addresses global economic justice, development of peoples, and the moral dimensions of poverty and inequality.
-
C.
Battle for Grain
The Battle for Grain was a major Fascist Italian agricultural policy initiative launched by Benito Mussolini in the 1920s to boost domestic wheat production and reduce reliance on foreign imports.
-
D.
Walden Two
Walden Two is a utopian novel by behaviorist B. F. Skinner that depicts a community engineered through behavioral principles to maximize social harmony and individual well-being.
-
E.
Poverty and Famines
Poverty and Famines is a seminal book by economist Amartya Sen that revolutionized the understanding of famine by arguing that they result more from failures of access and entitlement than from food shortages alone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| author | Paul R. Ehrlich ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticizedFor |
advocacy of coercive population control
ⓘ
alarmist tone ⓘ inaccurate predictions ⓘ underestimating technological change in agriculture ⓘ |
| genre |
environmental literature
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ popular science ⓘ |
| hasCentralClaim |
unchecked population growth will outstrip food production and resources
ⓘ
urgent action is needed to curb population growth ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | neo-Malthusian ⓘ |
| impactOn |
academic debates on population and resources
ⓘ
environmental policy discourse ⓘ public awareness of population issues ⓘ |
| influenced |
debates on carrying capacity
ⓘ
environmental movement ⓘ population control advocacy ⓘ public policy debates on population ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Thomas Malthus
ⓘ
neo-Malthusian ideas ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
birth control
ⓘ
demography ⓘ environmental limits ⓘ environmentalism ⓘ family planning ⓘ famine ⓘ overpopulation ⓘ population growth ⓘ resource scarcity ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influencing environmental debate in the late 1960s and 1970s
ⓘ
popularizing concerns about population growth ⓘ sparking controversy over population control policies ⓘ warning of imminent global overpopulation crises ⓘ |
| proposes |
government intervention in fertility rates
ⓘ
strong population control measures ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| publisher | Ballantine Books ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
An Essay on the Principle of Population
ⓘ
surface form:
Malthusian theory of population
Club of Rome ⓘ
surface form:
The Limits to Growth
|
| timePeriodDiscussed | late 20th century ⓘ |
| warnsAbout |
ecological collapse
ⓘ
mass starvation ⓘ resource depletion ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: the book "The Population Bomb" Description of subject: "The Population Bomb" is a 1968 book by biologist Paul R. Ehrlich that famously warned of imminent global overpopulation crises and helped spark widespread debate about population growth and environmental limits.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.