Jonathan Lear
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Jonathan Lear is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst known for his work on ethics, ancient Greek philosophy, and the intersection of philosophy and psychoanalytic theory.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3706340 — 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: Jonathan Lear Context triple: [Bernard Williams, influenced, Jonathan Lear]
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A.
John McDowell
John McDowell is a prominent contemporary philosopher known for his work in philosophy of mind, language, and ethics, particularly his influential book "Mind and World."
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Owen Flanagan
Owen Flanagan is an American philosopher known for his work in philosophy of mind, ethics, and the relationship between cognitive science and moral psychology.
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C.
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff is an American philosopher renowned for his work in analytic philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and aesthetics, and as a leading figure in Reformed epistemology.
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D.
Roderick Chisholm
Roderick Chisholm was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the theory of perception.
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E.
Jonathan Wolff
Jonathan Wolff is an American musician best known for composing and performing the iconic theme music and scores for the television sitcom Seinfeld.
- 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: Jonathan Lear Target entity description: Jonathan Lear is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst known for his work on ethics, ancient Greek philosophy, and the intersection of philosophy and psychoanalytic theory.
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A.
John McDowell
John McDowell is a prominent contemporary philosopher known for his work in philosophy of mind, language, and ethics, particularly his influential book "Mind and World."
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B.
Owen Flanagan
Owen Flanagan is an American philosopher known for his work in philosophy of mind, ethics, and the relationship between cognitive science and moral psychology.
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C.
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff is an American philosopher renowned for his work in analytic philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and aesthetics, and as a leading figure in Reformed epistemology.
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D.
Roderick Chisholm
Roderick Chisholm was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the theory of perception.
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E.
Jonathan Wolff
Jonathan Wolff is an American musician best known for composing and performing the iconic theme music and scores for the television sitcom Seinfeld.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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: Jonathan Lear Description of subject: Jonathan Lear is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst known for his work on ethics, ancient Greek philosophy, and the intersection of philosophy and psychoanalytic theory.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.