Paul Tillich
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Christian existentialist
German emigrant to the United States
Lutheran theologian
human
philosopher
theologian
Paul Tillich was a prominent 20th-century German-American Christian existentialist theologian and philosopher known for works such as "The Courage to Be" and "Systematic Theology."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Tillich canonical | 40 |
| Protestant theologian Paul Tillich | 1 |
| Tillich | 1 |
| philosopher Paul Tillich | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T941740 — 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: Paul Tillich Context triple: [Union Theological Seminary, hasNotableFaculty, Paul Tillich]
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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and existential philosopher known for his work on psychopathology, the philosophy of existence, and the concept of the "Axial Age."
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Jürgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmann is a German Reformed theologian renowned for his influential works on hope, political theology, and a relational, social understanding of the Trinity.
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Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner was a 20th-century German Jesuit priest and theologian whose transcendental and existential approach to Catholic theology made him one of the most influential thinkers of the Second Vatican Council.
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Charles Hartshorne
Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher and theologian best known for developing process philosophy and process theology, emphasizing a dynamic, relational concept of God and reality.
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a highly influential 20th-century German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological exploration of Being, especially in his seminal work "Being and Time."
- 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: Paul Tillich Target entity description: Paul Tillich was a prominent 20th-century German-American Christian existentialist theologian and philosopher known for works such as "The Courage to Be" and "Systematic Theology."
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A.
Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and existential philosopher known for his work on psychopathology, the philosophy of existence, and the concept of the "Axial Age."
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B.
Jürgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmann is a German Reformed theologian renowned for his influential works on hope, political theology, and a relational, social understanding of the Trinity.
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C.
Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner was a 20th-century German Jesuit priest and theologian whose transcendental and existential approach to Catholic theology made him one of the most influential thinkers of the Second Vatican Council.
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D.
Charles Hartshorne
Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher and theologian best known for developing process philosophy and process theology, emphasizing a dynamic, relational concept of God and reality.
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E.
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a highly influential 20th-century German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological exploration of Being, especially in his seminal work "Being and Time."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Paul Tillich Description of subject: Paul Tillich was a prominent 20th-century German-American Christian existentialist theologian and philosopher known for works such as "The Courage to Be" and "Systematic Theology."
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Paul Tillich
linked to: Paul Tillich
linked to: Paul Tillich