World 3
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World 3 is Karl Popper’s term for the autonomous realm of objective knowledge, encompassing products of the human mind such as theories, arguments, and cultural artifacts that exist independently of any one individual’s thoughts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| World 3 canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3304657 — 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: World 3 Context triple: [Objective Knowledge, mainSubject, World 3]
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A.
World 11
World 11 is the commonly used abbreviation for the FIFA FIFPro World XI, an annual all-star football team composed of the best players in the world as voted by professional footballers.
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B.
Overworld
The Overworld is the primary, earth-like dimension in Minecraft where players begin their adventures, featuring diverse biomes, resources, and mobs.
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C.
Middle World
Middle World is the central earthly realm in Tengrism, where humans live between the upper spiritual heavens and the lower underworld.
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D.
Mid-World
Mid-World is the decaying, post-apocalyptic fantasy realm that serves as the primary landscape for Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, where magic, technology, and parallel realities intersect.
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E.
Four Worlds
Four Worlds is a central Kabbalistic framework that describes a hierarchical sequence of spiritual realms through which divine energy progressively manifests into the physical universe.
- 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: World 3 Target entity description: World 3 is Karl Popper’s term for the autonomous realm of objective knowledge, encompassing products of the human mind such as theories, arguments, and cultural artifacts that exist independently of any one individual’s thoughts.
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A.
World 11
World 11 is the commonly used abbreviation for the FIFA FIFPro World XI, an annual all-star football team composed of the best players in the world as voted by professional footballers.
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B.
Overworld
The Overworld is the primary, earth-like dimension in Minecraft where players begin their adventures, featuring diverse biomes, resources, and mobs.
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C.
Middle World
Middle World is the central earthly realm in Tengrism, where humans live between the upper spiritual heavens and the lower underworld.
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D.
Mid-World
Mid-World is the decaying, post-apocalyptic fantasy realm that serves as the primary landscape for Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, where magic, technology, and parallel realities intersect.
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E.
Four Worlds
Four Worlds is a central Kabbalistic framework that describes a hierarchical sequence of spiritual realms through which divine energy progressively manifests into the physical universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epistemological concept
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ontological category ⓘ philosophical concept ⓘ |
| centralTo |
Popper’s critical rationalism
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Popper’s theory of objective knowledge ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
World 1
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World 2 ⓘ |
| creator | Karl Popper ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Conjectures and Refutations
ⓘ
Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach ⓘ
linked to:
Evolutionary Epistemology
The Self and Its Brain ⓘ
linked to:
The Self and Its Brain (excerpt)
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| distinguishedFrom |
individual mental states
ⓘ
purely physical objects ⓘ |
| epistemicStatus |
contains conjectural knowledge
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contains objective knowledge ⓘ |
| hasDefinition |
the autonomous realm of objective knowledge
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the realm of products of the human mind that have an existence independent of any particular subject’s mental states ⓘ |
| hasExample |
Einstein’s theory of relativity as a theory
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Euclidean geometry as a system of propositions ⓘ Shakespeare’s plays as textual artifacts ⓘ formal logical systems ⓘ mathematical problem sets ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
accessible through interpretation
ⓘ
autonomous ⓘ emergent from human mental activity ⓘ exists independently of any particular subject ⓘ fallible ⓘ non-mental in Popper’s sense ⓘ non-physical ⓘ objective ⓘ publicly shareable ⓘ subject to criticism and revision ⓘ |
| hasRole |
domain of cultural products
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domain of objective knowledge ⓘ repository of theories and arguments ⓘ |
| includes |
cultural artifacts
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linguistic meanings ⓘ logical arguments ⓘ mathematical proofs ⓘ problems and problem situations ⓘ scientific theories ⓘ works of art ⓘ |
| influenced |
discussions of realism and anti-realism
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theories of social institutions as objective structures ⓘ |
| partOf | Popper’s three worlds theory ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
World 1
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World 2 ⓘ |
| usedIn |
epistemology
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ontology ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ |
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: World 3 Description of subject: World 3 is Karl Popper’s term for the autonomous realm of objective knowledge, encompassing products of the human mind such as theories, arguments, and cultural artifacts that exist independently of any one individual’s thoughts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.