Paul Feyerabend
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Paul Feyerabend was a 20th-century philosopher of science best known for his radical critique of scientific rationality and his advocacy of epistemological anarchism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Feyerabend canonical | 16 |
| Feyerabend | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T554815 — 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 Feyerabend Context triple: [Karl Popper, influenced, Paul Feyerabend]
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Karl Popper
Karl Popper was a 20th-century philosopher of science best known for his theory of falsifiability as the demarcation criterion between science and non-science.
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Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn was an American physicist-turned-philosopher of science best known for his influential book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," which introduced the concepts of paradigms and paradigm shifts in scientific progress.
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Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian-born philosopher of mathematics and science best known for his theory of research programmes, which sought to refine and extend Karl Popper’s falsificationism.
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Nelson Goodman
Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher best known for his influential work in logic, the philosophy of science, and aesthetics, particularly his "new riddle of induction" and theories of symbol systems.
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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.
- 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 Feyerabend Target entity description: Paul Feyerabend was a 20th-century philosopher of science best known for his radical critique of scientific rationality and his advocacy of epistemological anarchism.
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A.
Karl Popper
Karl Popper was a 20th-century philosopher of science best known for his theory of falsifiability as the demarcation criterion between science and non-science.
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B.
Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn was an American physicist-turned-philosopher of science best known for his influential book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," which introduced the concepts of paradigms and paradigm shifts in scientific progress.
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C.
Imre Lakatos
Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian-born philosopher of mathematics and science best known for his theory of research programmes, which sought to refine and extend Karl Popper’s falsificationism.
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D.
Nelson Goodman
Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher best known for his influential work in logic, the philosophy of science, and aesthetics, particularly his "new riddle of induction" and theories of symbol systems.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Feyerabend Description of subject: Paul Feyerabend was a 20th-century philosopher of science best known for his radical critique of scientific rationality and his advocacy of epistemological anarchism.
Referenced by (17)
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