Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his pessimistic worldview and his major work "The World as Will and Representation," which profoundly influenced later existentialist and psychoanalytic thought.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arthur Schopenhauer canonical | 73 |
| Schopenhauer | 1 |
| Schopenhauerianism | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T124431 — 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: Arthur Schopenhauer Context triple: [Immanuel Kant, influenced, Arthur Schopenhauer]
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his critiques of traditional morality and religion, the concept of the "will to power," and the proclamation that "God is dead."
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher whose critical philosophy, especially in works like "Critique of Pure Reason," profoundly shaped modern epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.
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G. W. F. Hegel
G. W. F. Hegel was a German idealist philosopher whose dialectical method and comprehensive system of absolute idealism profoundly influenced 19th- and 20th-century philosophy, politics, and theology.
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher and key figure of German Idealism, known for developing a radical form of transcendental philosophy that built on and transformed Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling was a German Idealist philosopher known for his work on nature, freedom, and the development of a dynamic, evolving conception of reality.
- 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: Arthur Schopenhauer Target entity description: Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his pessimistic worldview and his major work "The World as Will and Representation," which profoundly influenced later existentialist and psychoanalytic thought.
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A.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his critiques of traditional morality and religion, the concept of the "will to power," and the proclamation that "God is dead."
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B.
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher whose critical philosophy, especially in works like "Critique of Pure Reason," profoundly shaped modern epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.
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C.
G. W. F. Hegel
G. W. F. Hegel was a German idealist philosopher whose dialectical method and comprehensive system of absolute idealism profoundly influenced 19th- and 20th-century philosophy, politics, and theology.
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D.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher and key figure of German Idealism, known for developing a radical form of transcendental philosophy that built on and transformed Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy.
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E.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling was a German Idealist philosopher known for his work on nature, freedom, and the development of a dynamic, evolving conception of reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
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Subject: Arthur Schopenhauer Description of subject: Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his pessimistic worldview and his major work "The World as Will and Representation," which profoundly influenced later existentialist and psychoanalytic thought.
Referenced by (75)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
thing-in-itself (noumenon)
subject linked to:
thing-in-itself (noumenon)
linked to: Arthur Schopenhauer
linked to: Arthur Schopenhauer
subject linked to:
Herman Hesse
subject linked to:
Friedrich Nietzsche’s earlier work ‘Beyond Good and Evil’
subject linked to:
the world as representation