Democracy and Education
E96121
Democracy and Education is John Dewey’s influential 1916 philosophical work that explores the relationship between education, democracy, and social reform.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Democracy and Education canonical | 7 |
| Democracy and Education (1916) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T814478 — 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: Democracy and Education Context triple: [John Dewey, notableWork, Democracy and Education]
-
A.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise by philosopher John Locke that outlines his influential views on the moral, practical, and intellectual education of children.
-
B.
Emile, or On Education
Emile, or On Education is an influential 1762 philosophical treatise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that outlines his theories on education, human development, and the formation of moral character.
-
C.
An Essay on the Education of Female Teachers
"An Essay on the Education of Female Teachers" is a 19th-century work by Catharine Beecher advocating for the professional training and social importance of women as educators.
-
D.
The Use of Knowledge in Society
The Use of Knowledge in Society is a seminal 1945 essay by economist Friedrich Hayek that argues how dispersed, tacit knowledge makes decentralized market prices superior to central planning in coordinating economic activity.
-
E.
Report on Elementary Public Instruction in Europe
Report on Elementary Public Instruction in Europe is an influential 19th-century study by Calvin Ellis Stowe that analyzed European school systems and helped shape the development of public education in the United States.
- 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: Democracy and Education Target entity description: Democracy and Education is John Dewey’s influential 1916 philosophical work that explores the relationship between education, democracy, and social reform.
-
A.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise by philosopher John Locke that outlines his influential views on the moral, practical, and intellectual education of children.
-
B.
Emile, or On Education
Emile, or On Education is an influential 1762 philosophical treatise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that outlines his theories on education, human development, and the formation of moral character.
-
C.
An Essay on the Education of Female Teachers
"An Essay on the Education of Female Teachers" is a 19th-century work by Catharine Beecher advocating for the professional training and social importance of women as educators.
-
D.
The Use of Knowledge in Society
The Use of Knowledge in Society is a seminal 1945 essay by economist Friedrich Hayek that argues how dispersed, tacit knowledge makes decentralized market prices superior to central planning in coordinating economic activity.
-
E.
Report on Elementary Public Instruction in Europe
Report on Elementary Public Instruction in Europe is an influential 19th-century study by Calvin Ellis Stowe that analyzed European school systems and helped shape the development of public education in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
philosophical work ⓘ |
| advocates |
cooperative learning
ⓘ
education as social continuity ⓘ integration of school and community ⓘ student-centered learning ⓘ |
| author | John Dewey ⓘ |
| centralClaim |
democracy is a way of life sustained by education
ⓘ
education is a necessary condition for democracy ⓘ education should be oriented toward growth and experience ⓘ education should prepare individuals for participatory democracy ⓘ schools are primary agencies of social reform ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticizes |
rote learning
ⓘ
traditional authoritarian education ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophy of education
ⓘ
political philosophy ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chapters on aims of education
ⓘ
chapters on moral education ⓘ chapters on the nature of experience ⓘ chapters on the philosophy of experience ⓘ chapters on the school as a social institution ⓘ chapters on vocational education ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century educational theory
ⓘ
John Rawls ⓘ Paulo Freire ⓘ critical pedagogy ⓘ philosophy of education ⓘ progressive education movement ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
pragmatism
ⓘ
surface form:
American pragmatism
Charles Sanders Peirce ⓘ William James ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
democracy
ⓘ
democratic citizenship ⓘ education ⓘ experiential learning ⓘ learning by doing ⓘ pragmatism ⓘ progressive education ⓘ public education ⓘ school and society ⓘ social reform ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | John Dewey ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
pragmatism
ⓘ
progressivism ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1916 ⓘ |
| publisher | The Macmillan Company ⓘ |
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: Democracy and Education Description of subject: Democracy and Education is John Dewey’s influential 1916 philosophical work that explores the relationship between education, democracy, and social reform.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Democracy and Education (1916)
subject surface form:
Pragmatism