Hans Vaihinger
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Hans Vaihinger was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher best known for his work "The Philosophy of 'As If'," which argued that many human beliefs are useful fictions rather than literally true.
All labels observed (1)
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| Hans Vaihinger canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4005538 — 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: Hans Vaihinger Context triple: [Neo-Kantianism, hasKeyFigure, Hans Vaihinger]
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Hugo von Seeliger
Hugo von Seeliger was a prominent German astronomer known for his influential work in celestial mechanics and theoretical astronomy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Eugen Dühring
Eugen Dühring was a 19th-century German philosopher and economist known for his positivist and anti-Marxist views, which prompted Friedrich Engels’s famous polemical work "Anti-Dühring."
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C.
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his influential work on the philosophy of physics, probability, and the foundations of scientific knowledge.
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D.
Friedrich Waismann
Friedrich Waismann was an Austrian mathematician, philosopher, and close collaborator of Ludwig Wittgenstein, known for his contributions to logical positivism and the philosophy of language.
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E.
Paul Körner
Paul Körner was a high-ranking Nazi official and close associate of Hermann Göring who played a key role in the economic and industrial mobilization of the Third Reich.
- 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: Hans Vaihinger Target entity description: Hans Vaihinger was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher best known for his work "The Philosophy of 'As If'," which argued that many human beliefs are useful fictions rather than literally true.
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A.
Hugo von Seeliger
Hugo von Seeliger was a prominent German astronomer known for his influential work in celestial mechanics and theoretical astronomy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Eugen Dühring
Eugen Dühring was a 19th-century German philosopher and economist known for his positivist and anti-Marxist views, which prompted Friedrich Engels’s famous polemical work "Anti-Dühring."
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C.
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his influential work on the philosophy of physics, probability, and the foundations of scientific knowledge.
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D.
Friedrich Waismann
Friedrich Waismann was an Austrian mathematician, philosopher, and close collaborator of Ludwig Wittgenstein, known for his contributions to logical positivism and the philosophy of language.
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E.
Paul Körner
Paul Körner was a high-ranking Nazi official and close associate of Hermann Göring who played a key role in the economic and industrial mobilization of the Third Reich.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Hans Vaihinger Description of subject: Hans Vaihinger was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher best known for his work "The Philosophy of 'As If'," which argued that many human beliefs are useful fictions rather than literally true.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.