Chinese room

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Chinese room

Summary

Chinese room is an argument[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of argument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,064 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Chinese room is credited with the discovery of John Searle[3].
  • Chinese room is the creator of John Searle[4].
  • Chinese room's image is recorded as Chinese Room thought experiment with countryballs.jpg[5].
  • Chinese room's instance of is recorded as argument[6].
  • Chinese room's instance of is recorded as thought experiment[7].
  • Chinese room's GND ID is recorded as 4730171-5[8].
  • +1980-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Chinese room[9].
  • Chinese room's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1980-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Chinese room's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01vjl[11].
  • Chinese room's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Chinese-room-argument[12].
  • Chinese room's different from is recorded as Chinese room[13].
  • Chinese room's different from is recorded as China brain[14].
  • Chinese room's uses is recorded as Turing test[15].
  • Chinese room's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03461414n[16].
  • Chinese room's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID is recorded as chinese-room[17].
  • Chinese room's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as chinese-room-argument[18].
  • Chinese room's Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID is recorded as chineser[19].
  • Chinese room's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777421509[20].
  • Chinese room's NicoNicoPedia ID is recorded as 中国語の部屋[21].
  • Chinese room's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Chinese_room[22].
  • Chinese room's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Quarto_chinês[23].
  • Chinese room's Scholarpedia article ID is recorded as Chinese_room_argument[24].
  • Chinese room's Pixiv Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 中国語の部屋[25].
  • Chinese room's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as kitaiskaia-komnata-06ba8d[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Chinese room is credited with the discovery of John Searle[3]. It is the creator of John Searle[4]. Things named for it include The Chinese Room[27], a video game developer[28], in United Kingdom[29], founded in 2007[30], headquartered in Brighton[31].

Why It Matters

Chinese room ranks in the top 6% of argument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,064 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for it include The Chinese Room[27], a video game developer[28], in United Kingdom[29], founded in 2007[30], headquartered in Brighton[31].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] . Minds, brains, and programs. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . rationalwiki.org. Retrieved . rationalwiki.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Chinese room. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/chinese-room
MLA “Chinese room.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/chinese-room.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_chinese-room_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Chinese room}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/chinese-room}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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