The Meme Machine
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The Meme Machine is a popular science book by psychologist Susan Blackmore that explores the concept of memes as units of cultural evolution and their role in shaping human behavior and consciousness.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Meme Machine canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T783044 — 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: The Meme Machine Context triple: [Susan Blackmore, notableWork, The Meme Machine]
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A.
The Burning Giraffe
The Burning Giraffe is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts distorted human figures and a flaming giraffe against a dreamlike, desolate landscape, often interpreted as reflecting inner psychological conflict and pre-war anxiety.
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B.
The Vine
The Vine is a public transit service brand used by C-TRAN for its bus and related transportation services in the Vancouver, Washington area.
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C.
"The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist"
"The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist" is a memoir by South African writer and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach recounting his imprisonment and experiences under the apartheid regime.
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D.
The Book of Right-On
"The Book of Right-On" is a song by Joanna Newsom, known for its intricate harp accompaniment and idiosyncratic, poetic lyrics.
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E.
Memed, My Hawk
"Memed, My Hawk" is a classic Turkish novel by Yaşar Kemal that follows a young villager’s transformation into a legendary bandit and symbol of resistance against feudal oppression.
- 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: The Meme Machine Target entity description: The Meme Machine is a popular science book by psychologist Susan Blackmore that explores the concept of memes as units of cultural evolution and their role in shaping human behavior and consciousness.
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A.
The Burning Giraffe
The Burning Giraffe is a surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts distorted human figures and a flaming giraffe against a dreamlike, desolate landscape, often interpreted as reflecting inner psychological conflict and pre-war anxiety.
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B.
The Vine
The Vine is a public transit service brand used by C-TRAN for its bus and related transportation services in the Vancouver, Washington area.
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C.
"The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist"
"The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist" is a memoir by South African writer and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach recounting his imprisonment and experiences under the apartheid regime.
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D.
The Book of Right-On
"The Book of Right-On" is a song by Joanna Newsom, known for its intricate harp accompaniment and idiosyncratic, poetic lyrics.
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E.
Memed, My Hawk
"Memed, My Hawk" is a classic Turkish novel by Yaşar Kemal that follows a young villager’s transformation into a legendary bandit and symbol of resistance against feudal oppression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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popular science book ⓘ |
| argues |
cultural evolution can be explained by memetic selection
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memes influence the development of human consciousness ⓘ memes shape human behavior ⓘ |
| author | Susan Blackmore ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist |
Oxford University Press
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surface form:
Oxford University Press design department
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| field |
cognitive science
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evolutionary psychology ⓘ memetics ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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science writing ⓘ |
| hasChapter |
A memetic theory of altruism
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Religion as a memeplex ⓘ The big brain ⓘ The evolution of culture ⓘ The future of memes ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
cultural replication
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evolution of culture ⓘ imitation ⓘ meme ⓘ memeplex ⓘ memes and consciousness ⓘ memes and language ⓘ memes and religion ⓘ memetic selection ⓘ selfish memes ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-0192862129 ⓘ |
| hasReception |
controversial among scientists
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popular with general audiences ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Richard Dawkins
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The Selfish Gene ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
consciousness
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cultural evolution ⓘ human behavior ⓘ memes ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
extending the meme concept beyond Dawkins
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popularizing memetics ⓘ |
| pageCount | 288 ⓘ |
| proposes | humans as meme machines ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| publisher | Oxford University Press ⓘ |
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: The Meme Machine Description of subject: The Meme Machine is a popular science book by psychologist Susan Blackmore that explores the concept of memes as units of cultural evolution and their role in shaping human behavior and consciousness.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Susan Blackmore