Henry Sidgwick
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British person
English person
academic
classicist
economist
human
moral philosopher
philosopher
university teacher
utilitarian philosopher
Henry Sidgwick was a 19th-century English utilitarian philosopher and economist best known for his work "The Methods of Ethics" and his influential contributions to moral philosophy and welfare economics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Sidgwick canonical | 35 |
| utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T665577 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Sidgwick Context triple: [Arthur Cecil Pigou, influencedBy, Henry Sidgwick]
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G. E. Moore
G. E. Moore was a British analytic philosopher known for his influential work in ethics, common-sense realism, and the philosophy of language at the turn of the 20th century.
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British philosopher and political economist known for his influential works on utilitarianism, liberty, and liberal democratic theory.
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F. Frederick Ayer
F. Frederick Ayer was an architect known for designing the historic Boston Garden arena in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher and legal reformer best known as the founder of modern utilitarianism, advocating that laws and actions should aim to maximize overall happiness.
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
- 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: Henry Sidgwick Target entity description: Henry Sidgwick was a 19th-century English utilitarian philosopher and economist best known for his work "The Methods of Ethics" and his influential contributions to moral philosophy and welfare economics.
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A.
G. E. Moore
G. E. Moore was a British analytic philosopher known for his influential work in ethics, common-sense realism, and the philosophy of language at the turn of the 20th century.
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B.
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British philosopher and political economist known for his influential works on utilitarianism, liberty, and liberal democratic theory.
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C.
F. Frederick Ayer
F. Frederick Ayer was an architect known for designing the historic Boston Garden arena in Boston, Massachusetts.
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D.
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher and legal reformer best known as the founder of modern utilitarianism, advocating that laws and actions should aim to maximize overall happiness.
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E.
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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: Henry Sidgwick Description of subject: Henry Sidgwick was a 19th-century English utilitarian philosopher and economist best known for his work "The Methods of Ethics" and his influential contributions to moral philosophy and welfare economics.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge
subject linked to:
Sidgwick Site area
Outlines of the History of Ethics for English Readers
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writtenBy
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utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick
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linked to: Henry Sidgwick
subject linked to:
book "The Possibility of Altruism"
subject linked to:
"The View From Nowhere"
subject linked to:
"The Possibility of Altruism"
subject linked to:
"Equality and Partiality"