Hillel Steiner
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Hillel Steiner is a political philosopher known for his work on rights, justice, and libertarianism within the analytic tradition.
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| Hillel Steiner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3062660 — 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: Hillel Steiner Context triple: [Analytical Marxism, associatedWith, Hillel Steiner]
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Morrie Ryskind
Morrie Ryskind was an American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and classic Hollywood comedies of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Yehuda Hoffman
Yehuda Hoffman is an astrophysicist known for his work in cosmology and large-scale structure, including helping identify and characterize the Laniakea Supercluster.
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C.
Shlomo Ganzfried
Shlomo Ganzfried was a 19th-century Hungarian rabbi and halachic authority best known for composing the widely used concise code of Jewish law, the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch.
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D.
Isaac Abuhav
Isaac Abuhav was a prominent 15th-century Spanish rabbi and kabbalist whose teachings and legacy are commemorated by the historic Abuhav Synagogue in Safed.
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E.
Mordehai Milgrom
Mordehai Milgrom is an Israeli physicist best known for proposing Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) as an alternative to dark matter in explaining galactic rotation curves.
- 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: Hillel Steiner Target entity description: Hillel Steiner is a political philosopher known for his work on rights, justice, and libertarianism within the analytic tradition.
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A.
Morrie Ryskind
Morrie Ryskind was an American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and classic Hollywood comedies of the 1930s and 1940s.
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B.
Yehuda Hoffman
Yehuda Hoffman is an astrophysicist known for his work in cosmology and large-scale structure, including helping identify and characterize the Laniakea Supercluster.
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C.
Shlomo Ganzfried
Shlomo Ganzfried was a 19th-century Hungarian rabbi and halachic authority best known for composing the widely used concise code of Jewish law, the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch.
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D.
Isaac Abuhav
Isaac Abuhav was a prominent 15th-century Spanish rabbi and kabbalist whose teachings and legacy are commemorated by the historic Abuhav Synagogue in Safed.
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E.
Mordehai Milgrom
Mordehai Milgrom is an Israeli physicist best known for proposing Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) as an alternative to dark matter in explaining galactic rotation curves.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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person ⓘ political philosopher ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1940s ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Queen’s University at Kingston
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linked to:
Queen's University at Kingston
University of Oxford ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
analytic philosophy
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libertarianism ⓘ moral philosophy ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ rights theory ⓘ theories of justice ⓘ |
| hasAcademicPosition |
Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester
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Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester ⓘ |
| hasAward | David and Elaine Spitz Prize ⓘ |
| hasCollaboratedWith |
Michael Otsuka
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Peter Vallentyne ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
compossibility of rights
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global fund for natural resources ⓘ moral rights as ownership rights ⓘ |
| hasPublicationType |
books
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edited volumes ⓘ journal articles ⓘ |
| hasView |
justice requires global redistribution of natural resource values
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rights must be mutually compossible to be morally justified ⓘ self-ownership is compatible with egalitarian distribution of external resources ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary theories of rights
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debates on global distributive justice ⓘ the development of left-libertarian political theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
H. L. A. Hart
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Immanuel Kant ⓘ John Locke ⓘ Robert Nozick ⓘ |
| knownFor |
arguments about global egalitarian justice
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defending a form of left-libertarianism ⓘ theory of rights as compossible ⓘ work on the structure of moral rights ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
distributive justice
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global justice ⓘ left-libertarianism ⓘ self-ownership ⓘ the concept of rights ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | An Essay on Rights ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| workInstitution | University of Manchester ⓘ |
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