Josef Breuer
E204763
Josef Breuer was an Austrian physician and physiologist whose pioneering work in treating hysteria with talking therapy laid crucial groundwork for the development of psychoanalysis.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Josef Breuer canonical | 23 |
| Breuer and Freud | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1668173 — 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: Josef Breuer Context triple: [Sigmund Freud, coAuthor, Josef Breuer]
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Sándor Ferenczi
Sándor Ferenczi was a pioneering Hungarian psychoanalyst and close collaborator of Sigmund Freud, known for his influential contributions to psychoanalytic theory and technique, especially in the areas of trauma and the analyst–patient relationship.
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B.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, whose theories on the unconscious mind, sexuality, and human behavior profoundly shaped modern psychology and Western thought.
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C.
Maurice Janet
Maurice Janet was a French mathematician known for his foundational work in differential equations and differential geometry, including results later associated with the Janet–Cartan theorem.
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D.
Otto Rank
Otto Rank was an Austrian psychoanalyst and close collaborator of Sigmund Freud who became known for his innovative theories on creativity, the will, and the psychological impact of birth trauma.
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E.
Ernest Jones
Ernest Jones was a prominent 19th-century British radical politician, poet, and barrister who became one of the leading voices of the Chartist movement for democratic reform.
- 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: Josef Breuer Target entity description: Josef Breuer was an Austrian physician and physiologist whose pioneering work in treating hysteria with talking therapy laid crucial groundwork for the development of psychoanalysis.
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A.
Sándor Ferenczi
Sándor Ferenczi was a pioneering Hungarian psychoanalyst and close collaborator of Sigmund Freud, known for his influential contributions to psychoanalytic theory and technique, especially in the areas of trauma and the analyst–patient relationship.
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B.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, whose theories on the unconscious mind, sexuality, and human behavior profoundly shaped modern psychology and Western thought.
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C.
Maurice Janet
Maurice Janet was a French mathematician known for his foundational work in differential equations and differential geometry, including results later associated with the Janet–Cartan theorem.
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D.
Otto Rank
Otto Rank was an Austrian psychoanalyst and close collaborator of Sigmund Freud who became known for his innovative theories on creativity, the will, and the psychological impact of birth trauma.
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E.
Ernest Jones
Ernest Jones was a prominent 19th-century British radical politician, poet, and barrister who became one of the leading voices of the Chartist movement for democratic reform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Josef Breuer Description of subject: Josef Breuer was an Austrian physician and physiologist whose pioneering work in treating hysteria with talking therapy laid crucial groundwork for the development of psychoanalysis.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Josef Breuer