Dennett
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Dennett is a surname most prominently associated with American birth control activist and sex education reformer Mary Ware Dennett.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dennett canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9835080 — 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: Dennett Context triple: [Mary Ware Dennett, familyName, Dennett]
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A.
Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, free will, and the philosophy of mind from a naturalistic, evolutionary perspective.
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B.
Russell Dennett
Russell Dennett is a British musician best known for his work as a member of the influential synth-pop band The Human League.
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C.
Paul Dennett
Paul Dennett is a British Labour politician who serves as the directly elected Mayor of Salford, overseeing local governance and strategic development in the city.
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D.
Ned Block
Ned Block is an American philosopher of mind and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, mental representation, and the philosophy of psychology.
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E.
David Chalmers
David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher best known for his work on the philosophy of mind and consciousness, particularly for formulating the "hard problem" of consciousness.
- 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: Dennett Target entity description: Dennett is a surname most prominently associated with American birth control activist and sex education reformer Mary Ware Dennett.
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A.
Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, free will, and the philosophy of mind from a naturalistic, evolutionary perspective.
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B.
Russell Dennett
Russell Dennett is a British musician best known for his work as a member of the influential synth-pop band The Human League.
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C.
Paul Dennett
Paul Dennett is a British Labour politician who serves as the directly elected Mayor of Salford, overseeing local governance and strategic development in the city.
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D.
Ned Block
Ned Block is an American philosopher of mind and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, mental representation, and the philosophy of psychology.
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E.
David Chalmers
David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher best known for his work on the philosophy of mind and consciousness, particularly for formulating the "hard problem" of consciousness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
birth control activist
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human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ sex education reformer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Dennett
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Dennett ⓘ Dennett ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American diplomatic history
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birth control ⓘ philosophy of biology ⓘ philosophy of cognitive science ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ sex education ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Daniel C. Dennett
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linked to:
Daniel Dennett
Mary Ware Dennett ⓘ Tyler Dennett ⓘ |
| movement |
birth control movement in the United States
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sex education reform movement in the United States ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy of legal access to birth control information
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campaigns for comprehensive sex education ⓘ |
| positionHeld | leader in American birth control movement ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
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: Dennett Description of subject: Dennett is a surname most prominently associated with American birth control activist and sex education reformer Mary Ware Dennett.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.