Judith Jarvis Thomson
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Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American moral philosopher best known for her influential work on rights, personhood, and the ethics of abortion, including the famous "violinist" thought experiment.
All labels observed (1)
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| Judith Jarvis Thomson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2653332 — 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: Judith Jarvis Thomson Context triple: [Elizabeth Anscombe, influenced, Judith Jarvis Thomson]
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Onora O’Neill
Onora O’Neill is a prominent British philosopher and crossbench peer known for her influential work in ethics, political philosophy, and bioethics, particularly on Kantian moral theory and trust.
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Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher renowned for her work in ethics, political philosophy, and the capabilities approach to human development.
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Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib is a prominent contemporary political philosopher known for her work on deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism, and feminist theory.
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D.
Mary Ware Dennett
Mary Ware Dennett was an early 20th-century American birth control advocate, sex education reformer, and feminist leader who played a key role in challenging obscenity laws and expanding access to reproductive information.
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher known for his influential work in applied ethics, particularly animal rights and global poverty, grounded in a contemporary utilitarian framework.
- 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: Judith Jarvis Thomson Target entity description: Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American moral philosopher best known for her influential work on rights, personhood, and the ethics of abortion, including the famous "violinist" thought experiment.
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A.
Onora O’Neill
Onora O’Neill is a prominent British philosopher and crossbench peer known for her influential work in ethics, political philosophy, and bioethics, particularly on Kantian moral theory and trust.
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B.
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher renowned for her work in ethics, political philosophy, and the capabilities approach to human development.
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C.
Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib is a prominent contemporary political philosopher known for her work on deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism, and feminist theory.
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D.
Mary Ware Dennett
Mary Ware Dennett was an early 20th-century American birth control advocate, sex education reformer, and feminist leader who played a key role in challenging obscenity laws and expanding access to reproductive information.
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E.
Peter Singer
Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher known for his influential work in applied ethics, particularly animal rights and global poverty, grounded in a contemporary utilitarian framework.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Judith Jarvis Thomson Description of subject: Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American moral philosopher best known for her influential work on rights, personhood, and the ethics of abortion, including the famous "violinist" thought experiment.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.