Michael Dummett
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Michael Dummett was a British philosopher renowned for his work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, and for his influential interpretations of analytic philosophy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Dummett canonical | 36 |
| Dummett | 1 |
| Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett | 1 |
| Sir Michael Dummett | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T403563 — 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: Michael Dummett Context triple: [Gottlob Frege, influenced, Michael Dummett]
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P. F. Strawson
P. F. Strawson was a prominent 20th-century British analytic philosopher known for his influential work in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the critique of Russell’s theory of descriptions.
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Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher and logician known for his work on ontological relativity, the indeterminacy of translation, and the critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction.
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A. J. Ayer
A. J. Ayer was a 20th-century British philosopher best known for promoting logical positivism in the English-speaking world, especially through his influential book "Language, Truth and Logic."
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D.
Gilbert Ryle
Gilbert Ryle was a 20th-century British philosopher best known for his critique of Cartesian dualism and his influential work in ordinary language philosophy, especially in "The Concept of Mind."
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F. Frederick Ayer
F. Frederick Ayer was an architect known for designing the historic Boston Garden arena in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 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: Michael Dummett Target entity description: Michael Dummett was a British philosopher renowned for his work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, and for his influential interpretations of analytic philosophy.
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A.
P. F. Strawson
P. F. Strawson was a prominent 20th-century British analytic philosopher known for his influential work in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the critique of Russell’s theory of descriptions.
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B.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher and logician known for his work on ontological relativity, the indeterminacy of translation, and the critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction.
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C.
A. J. Ayer
A. J. Ayer was a 20th-century British philosopher best known for promoting logical positivism in the English-speaking world, especially through his influential book "Language, Truth and Logic."
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D.
Gilbert Ryle
Gilbert Ryle was a 20th-century British philosopher best known for his critique of Cartesian dualism and his influential work in ordinary language philosophy, especially in "The Concept of Mind."
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E.
F. Frederick Ayer
F. Frederick Ayer was an architect known for designing the historic Boston Garden arena in Boston, Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Michael Dummett Description of subject: Michael Dummett was a British philosopher renowned for his work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, and for his influential interpretations of analytic philosophy.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Michael Dummett
linked to: Michael Dummett
subject linked to:
“Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
linked to: Michael Dummett
subject linked to:
“Realism and Anti-Realism”
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“What is a Theory of Meaning?”
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“The Philosophical Basis of Intuitionistic Logic”
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“The Justification of Deduction”
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“What Do I Know When I Know a Language?”
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“The Reality of the Past”
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“Truth and Meaning”