La Connaissance inutile
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La Connaissance inutile is a philosophical and political essay by Jean-François Revel that critiques the misuse and neglect of knowledge in modern democratic societies.
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21713738 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La Connaissance inutile Context triple: [Jean-François Revel, notableWork, La Connaissance inutile]
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La Connaissance de la vie
La Connaissance de la vie is a seminal philosophical work by Georges Canguilhem that explores the concepts of life, biology, and normativity within the life sciences.
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Le Philosophe Inconnu
Le Philosophe Inconnu is the pseudonym of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, an 18th-century French mystic and philosopher associated with Christian theosophy and esoteric thought.
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C.
Le Gai Savoir
Le Gai Savoir is a 1969 French New Wave film directed by Jean-Luc Godard that explores radical politics and the deconstruction of language through a minimalist, didactic style.
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D.
La Volonté de savoir
La Volonté de savoir is Michel Foucault’s influential first volume of *The History of Sexuality*, in which he analyzes how modern societies produce and regulate discourse about sex as a form of power.
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E.
Promenade du sceptique
Promenade du sceptique is an early philosophical text by Denis Diderot that explores skeptical inquiry and challenges established religious and metaphysical beliefs.
- 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: La Connaissance inutile Target entity description: La Connaissance inutile is a philosophical and political essay by Jean-François Revel that critiques the misuse and neglect of knowledge in modern democratic societies.
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A.
La Connaissance de la vie
La Connaissance de la vie is a seminal philosophical work by Georges Canguilhem that explores the concepts of life, biology, and normativity within the life sciences.
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B.
Le Philosophe Inconnu
Le Philosophe Inconnu is the pseudonym of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, an 18th-century French mystic and philosopher associated with Christian theosophy and esoteric thought.
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C.
Le Gai Savoir
Le Gai Savoir is a 1969 French New Wave film directed by Jean-Luc Godard that explores radical politics and the deconstruction of language through a minimalist, didactic style.
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D.
La Volonté de savoir
La Volonté de savoir is Michel Foucault’s influential first volume of *The History of Sexuality*, in which he analyzes how modern societies produce and regulate discourse about sex as a form of power.
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E.
Promenade du sceptique
Promenade du sceptique is an early philosophical text by Denis Diderot that explores skeptical inquiry and challenges established religious and metaphysical beliefs.
- F. None of above. chosen
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