Sigmund Freud
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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.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sigmund Freud canonical | 272 |
| Freud | 7 |
| Sigismund Schlomo Freud | 1 |
| Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) | 1 |
| Sigmund Freud (visitor and observer of Charcot) | 1 |
| Zygmunt Freud (variant of Sigmund Freud in Polish usage) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T277130 — 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: Sigmund Freud Context triple: [Herbert Marcuse, influencedBy, Sigmund Freud]
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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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Carl Jung
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology and introduced influential concepts such as the collective unconscious and archetypes.
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Erich Neumann
Erich Neumann was a German economist and Nazi official who held senior positions in the Third Reich’s economic administration and participated in high-level policy meetings during World War II.
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Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt was a German physician, physiologist, and philosopher widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology and the first psychological laboratory.
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Kurt Goldstein
Kurt Goldstein was a German neurologist and psychiatrist known for his holistic approach to brain function and for pioneering ideas that helped shape humanistic psychology.
- 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: Sigmund Freud Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
Carl Jung
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology and introduced influential concepts such as the collective unconscious and archetypes.
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C.
Erich Neumann
Erich Neumann was a German economist and Nazi official who held senior positions in the Third Reich’s economic administration and participated in high-level policy meetings during World War II.
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D.
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt was a German physician, physiologist, and philosopher widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology and the first psychological laboratory.
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E.
Kurt Goldstein
Kurt Goldstein was a German neurologist and psychiatrist known for his holistic approach to brain function and for pioneering ideas that helped shape humanistic psychology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (86)
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: Sigmund Freud Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (283)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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