Martin Seligman
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Martin Seligman is an American psychologist best known as a founder of positive psychology and for his work on learned helplessness and well-being.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martin Seligman canonical | 8 |
| Martin E. P. Seligman | 1 |
| Seligman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T749903 — 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: Martin Seligman Context triple: [University of Pennsylvania, hasNotableFaculty, Martin Seligman]
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A.
Luke Nosek
Luke Nosek is a Polish-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as one of the co-founders of PayPal and a member of the original "PayPal Mafia."
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B.
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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C.
Urie McCleary
Urie McCleary was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist best known for developing the hierarchy of needs theory, which emphasizes human motivation and self-actualization.
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E.
Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson
Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson is the daughter of Canadian author Margaret Atwood and her partner, novelist Graeme Gibson.
- 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: Martin Seligman Target entity description: Martin Seligman is an American psychologist best known as a founder of positive psychology and for his work on learned helplessness and well-being.
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A.
Luke Nosek
Luke Nosek is a Polish-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known as one of the co-founders of PayPal and a member of the original "PayPal Mafia."
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B.
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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C.
Urie McCleary
Urie McCleary was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist best known for developing the hierarchy of needs theory, which emphasizes human motivation and self-actualization.
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E.
Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson
Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson is the daughter of Canadian author Margaret Atwood and her partner, novelist Graeme Gibson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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author ⓘ human ⓘ professor ⓘ psychologist ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | psychology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| educatedAt |
Princeton University
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University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| employer | University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| familyName |
Martin Seligman
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Seligman
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| fieldOfWork |
clinical psychology
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learned helplessness ⓘ positive psychology ⓘ psychology ⓘ well-being research ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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popular psychology ⓘ self-help ⓘ |
| givenName | Martin ⓘ |
| influenced | development of positive psychology movement ⓘ |
| knownFor |
PERMA model of well-being
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authentic happiness theory ⓘ founding positive psychology ⓘ research on well-being ⓘ theory of learned helplessness ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Martin Seligman self-link ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| notableWork |
Authentic Happiness
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Flourish ⓘ Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death ⓘ Learned Optimism ⓘ The Optimistic Child ⓘ What You Can Change and What You Can’t ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
psychologist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania
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president of the American Psychological Association ⓘ professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
character strengths
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depression ⓘ optimism ⓘ resilience ⓘ |
| theory |
PERMA model of well-being
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surface form:
PERMA model
positive psychology ⓘ
surface form:
authentic happiness theory
learned helplessness ⓘ |
| workInstitution | University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
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: Martin Seligman Description of subject: Martin Seligman is an American psychologist best known as a founder of positive psychology and for his work on learned helplessness and well-being.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
University of Pennsylvania
this entity surface form:
Seligman
this entity surface form:
Martin E. P. Seligman