Doug Jesseph
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Doug Jesseph is an American philosopher and professor known for his work in the philosophy of mathematics and his critiques of theistic arguments.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Doug Jesseph canonical | 1 |
| Douglas M. Jesseph | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8332852 — 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: Doug Jesseph Context triple: [William Lane Craig, hasDebated, Doug Jesseph]
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A.
Russell Gewirtz
Russell Gewirtz is an American screenwriter best known for writing the crime thriller film "Inside Man."
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B.
David Rosenblum
David Rosenblum is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential research in software engineering and formal methods.
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C.
Gerald Gaus
Gerald Gaus was an American political philosopher known for his influential work on liberalism, public reason, and the justification of political morality.
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D.
Karl Llewellyn
Karl Llewellyn was a prominent 20th-century American legal scholar and leading figure of the legal realism movement, known especially for his role in drafting the Uniform Commercial Code.
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E.
Michael P. Hein
Michael P. Hein is an American public official who became the inaugural county executive of Ulster County, New York, helping to shape the modern structure of its local government.
- 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: Doug Jesseph Target entity description: Doug Jesseph is an American philosopher and professor known for his work in the philosophy of mathematics and his critiques of theistic arguments.
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A.
Russell Gewirtz
Russell Gewirtz is an American screenwriter best known for writing the crime thriller film "Inside Man."
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B.
David Rosenblum
David Rosenblum is a prominent computer scientist known for his influential research in software engineering and formal methods.
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C.
Gerald Gaus
Gerald Gaus was an American political philosopher known for his influential work on liberalism, public reason, and the justification of political morality.
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D.
Karl Llewellyn
Karl Llewellyn was a prominent 20th-century American legal scholar and leading figure of the legal realism movement, known especially for his role in drafting the Uniform Commercial Code.
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E.
Michael P. Hein
Michael P. Hein is an American public official who became the inaugural county executive of Ulster County, New York, helping to shape the modern structure of its local government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American philosopher
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human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| affiliation | Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Minnesota ⓘ |
| employer | University of South Florida ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
early modern philosophy
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history of mathematics ⓘ logic ⓘ philosophy ⓘ philosophy of mathematics ⓘ philosophy of religion ⓘ |
| genre | academic writing ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | professor ⓘ |
| hasAcademicSpecialty |
history of philosophy
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philosophy of mathematics ⓘ philosophy of religion ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
foundations of mathematics
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history of science ⓘ logic and its history ⓘ philosophical theology ⓘ |
| hasTaughtCourseIn |
history of modern philosophy
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logic ⓘ philosophy of mathematics ⓘ philosophy of religion ⓘ |
| hasWrittenOn |
Thomas Hobbes
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arguments for the existence of God ⓘ creationism ⓘ history of early modern mathematics ⓘ intelligent design ⓘ theistic arguments ⓘ |
| isKnownAs |
Douglas M. Jesseph
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linked to:
Doug Jesseph
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American philosophical community ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critical analysis of creationist and intelligent design arguments
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critiques of theistic arguments ⓘ work on Thomas Hobbes and mathematics ⓘ |
| notableWork | Squaring the Circle: The War Between Hobbes and Wallis ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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philosopher ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| workLocation | Tampa, Florida ⓘ |
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: Doug Jesseph Description of subject: Doug Jesseph is an American philosopher and professor known for his work in the philosophy of mathematics and his critiques of theistic arguments.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Doug Jesseph