Paul Goodman
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Paul Goodman was an American social critic, writer, and psychotherapist best known for co-founding Gestalt therapy and influencing 20th-century radical thought.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Goodman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6799773 — 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: Paul Goodman Context triple: [Gestalt therapy, coDevelopedBy, Paul Goodman]
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A.
Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman is a British Conservative politician and journalist who served as Member of Parliament for Wycombe before pursuing a career in political commentary and editing.
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B.
Stanley Tigerman
Stanley Tigerman was an influential American architect and educator known for his provocative, often whimsical postmodern designs and his central role in shaping Chicago’s architectural discourse.
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C.
Wallace Miller
Wallace Miller was a local school district official involved in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder concerning compulsory education and religious freedom.
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D.
Christopher Alexander
Christopher Alexander was an influential architect and design theorist best known for developing the concept of pattern languages in architecture and urban planning.
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E.
Lawrence Halprin
Lawrence Halprin was a prominent American landscape architect known for his influential modernist public spaces and urban parks.
- 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: Paul Goodman Target entity description: Paul Goodman was an American social critic, writer, and psychotherapist best known for co-founding Gestalt therapy and influencing 20th-century radical thought.
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A.
Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman is a British Conservative politician and journalist who served as Member of Parliament for Wycombe before pursuing a career in political commentary and editing.
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B.
Stanley Tigerman
Stanley Tigerman was an influential American architect and educator known for his provocative, often whimsical postmodern designs and his central role in shaping Chicago’s architectural discourse.
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C.
Wallace Miller
Wallace Miller was a local school district official involved in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder concerning compulsory education and religious freedom.
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D.
Christopher Alexander
Christopher Alexander was an influential architect and design theorist best known for developing the concept of pattern languages in architecture and urban planning.
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E.
Lawrence Halprin
Lawrence Halprin was a prominent American landscape architect known for his influential modernist public spaces and urban parks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational theorist
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essayist ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ psychotherapist ⓘ social critic ⓘ |
| coFounded | Gestalt therapy ⓘ |
| coFoundedWith |
Fritz Perls
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Laura Perls ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs | American social critic, writer, and psychotherapist best known for co-founding Gestalt therapy and influencing 20th-century radical thought ⓘ |
| familyName | Goodman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
education theory
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psychotherapy ⓘ social criticism ⓘ urban planning ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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fiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ political essay ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| influenced |
1960s New Left
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linked to:
New Left
radical education theory ⓘ student movements in the United States ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Gestalt psychology
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anarchist thought ⓘ psychoanalysis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Gestalt therapy
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anarchism ⓘ counterculture of the 1960s ⓘ pacifism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Communitas
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Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality ⓘ
linked to:
Gestalt therapy
Growing Up Absurd ⓘ The Empire City ⓘ |
| occupation |
lecturer
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psychotherapist ⓘ social critic ⓘ teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Paul Goodman Description of subject: Paul Goodman was an American social critic, writer, and psychotherapist best known for co-founding Gestalt therapy and influencing 20th-century radical thought.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.