Allan Bloom
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Allan Bloom was an American political philosopher and classicist best known for his critique of contemporary higher education in his influential book "The Closing of the American Mind."
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| Allan Bloom canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3262041 — 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: Allan Bloom Context triple: [Alexandre Kojève, influenced, Allan Bloom]
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Sidney Hook
Sidney Hook was an American philosopher and public intellectual known for his work in pragmatism, social and political philosophy, and his evolution from Marxist sympathizer to prominent anti-communist thinker.
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Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher known for his influential studies of classical political thought and his impact on modern conservative and neoconservative intellectual movements.
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Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popularizer of the Great Books movement, known for his work on liberal education and efforts to make philosophy accessible to the general public.
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John Gardner (philosopher)
John Gardner (philosopher) was a prominent British legal philosopher known for his influential work on the nature of law, responsibility, and moral philosophy, particularly during his tenure as Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.
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Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre is a Scottish-born moral and political philosopher best known for reviving Aristotelian virtue ethics and critiquing modern liberal individualism in works such as "After Virtue."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allan Bloom Target entity description: Allan Bloom was an American political philosopher and classicist best known for his critique of contemporary higher education in his influential book "The Closing of the American Mind."
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A.
Sidney Hook
Sidney Hook was an American philosopher and public intellectual known for his work in pragmatism, social and political philosophy, and his evolution from Marxist sympathizer to prominent anti-communist thinker.
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B.
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher known for his influential studies of classical political thought and his impact on modern conservative and neoconservative intellectual movements.
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C.
Mortimer Adler
Mortimer Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popularizer of the Great Books movement, known for his work on liberal education and efforts to make philosophy accessible to the general public.
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D.
John Gardner (philosopher)
John Gardner (philosopher) was a prominent British legal philosopher known for his influential work on the nature of law, responsibility, and moral philosophy, particularly during his tenure as Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.
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E.
Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre is a Scottish-born moral and political philosopher best known for reviving Aristotelian virtue ethics and critiquing modern liberal individualism in works such as "After Virtue."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Allan Bloom Description of subject: Allan Bloom was an American political philosopher and classicist best known for his critique of contemporary higher education in his influential book "The Closing of the American Mind."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.