Entity Store of People Mentioned in Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science

An entity store of all people mentioned in historical and other notes in “A New Kind of Science”

The countries given for people are based on countries currently at the relevant geographic locations.

The printed book included death dates only for people who died up to 2002.

The entity store defines entity classes such as Alive and Dead.

(1 entity types, 484 entities, 10 properties)

Examples

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Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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$ResourceObject["Entity Store of People Mentioned in Stephen Wolfram's \ A New Kind of Science"]$

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View the data:

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$ResourceData["Entity Store of People Mentioned in Stephen Wolfram's A \ New Kind of Science"]$

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Add to the central list of entity stores:

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$PrependTo[$EntityStores, ResourceData[ "Entity Store of People Mentioned in Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind \ of Science"]]$

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Visualization

Create a histogram of the birth dates of living people:

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Analysis

Get the first 5 dead people listed in the entity store:

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Get the list of people born before 0 AD:

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Get a random sample of five people who also have person entities:

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Bibliographic Citation

Wolfram Research, "Entity Store of People Mentioned in Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science" from the Wolfram Data Repository. (2017) https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.54171.data

Source Metadata

Creator: Stephen Wolfram
Source: https://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/index/names
Citation: Stephen Wolfram, “A New Kind of Science” (2002)

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Publisher Information

Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research