Sissela Bok
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Sissela Bok is a Swedish-born American philosopher and ethicist known for her influential work on lying, moral choice, and bioethics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sissela Bok canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4165578 — 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: Sissela Bok Context triple: [Gunnar Myrdal, child, Sissela Bok]
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A.
Madeleine Elster
Madeleine Elster is a mysterious and elegant woman central to Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Vertigo," whose enigmatic behavior and apparent possession drive the film’s psychological suspense and romantic obsession.
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B.
Donna Toulmin
Donna Toulmin is known as the wife of British philosopher Stephen Toulmin, associated with his personal and academic life.
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C.
Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib is a prominent contemporary political philosopher known for her work on deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism, and feminist theory.
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D.
Marga von Hoesslin
Marga von Hoesslin was the wife of renowned German theoretical physicist Max Planck, who is considered the founder of quantum theory.
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E.
Ann Swidler
Ann Swidler is an American sociologist known for her influential work on culture, including the concept of culture as a "tool kit" of symbols, stories, and practices that people use to construct strategies of action.
- 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: Sissela Bok Target entity description: Sissela Bok is a Swedish-born American philosopher and ethicist known for her influential work on lying, moral choice, and bioethics.
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A.
Madeleine Elster
Madeleine Elster is a mysterious and elegant woman central to Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Vertigo," whose enigmatic behavior and apparent possession drive the film’s psychological suspense and romantic obsession.
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B.
Donna Toulmin
Donna Toulmin is known as the wife of British philosopher Stephen Toulmin, associated with his personal and academic life.
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C.
Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib is a prominent contemporary political philosopher known for her work on deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism, and feminist theory.
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D.
Marga von Hoesslin
Marga von Hoesslin was the wife of renowned German theoretical physicist Max Planck, who is considered the founder of quantum theory.
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E.
Ann Swidler
Ann Swidler is an American sociologist known for her influential work on culture, including the concept of culture as a "tool kit" of symbols, stories, and practices that people use to construct strategies of action.
- 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: Sissela Bok Description of subject: Sissela Bok is a Swedish-born American philosopher and ethicist known for her influential work on lying, moral choice, and bioethics.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.