Rollo May
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Rollo May was an American existential psychologist and author known for integrating existential philosophy with psychotherapy and exploring themes of anxiety, freedom, and human choice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rollo May canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T871608 — 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: Rollo May Context triple: [Otto Rank, influenced, Rollo May]
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A.
Erich Neumann
Erich Neumann was a German economist and Nazi official who held senior positions in the Third Reich’s economic administration and participated in high-level policy meetings during World War II.
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B.
Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers was an influential American psychologist and one of the founders of humanistic psychology, best known for developing client-centered (person-centered) therapy.
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C.
Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor best known for founding logotherapy and writing the influential memoir "Man's Search for Meaning."
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Otto Rank
Otto Rank was an Austrian psychoanalyst and close collaborator of Sigmund Freud who became known for his innovative theories on creativity, the will, and the psychological impact of birth trauma.
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E.
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist best known for developing the hierarchy of needs theory, which emphasizes human motivation and self-actualization.
- 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: Rollo May Target entity description: Rollo May was an American existential psychologist and author known for integrating existential philosophy with psychotherapy and exploring themes of anxiety, freedom, and human choice.
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A.
Erich Neumann
Erich Neumann was a German economist and Nazi official who held senior positions in the Third Reich’s economic administration and participated in high-level policy meetings during World War II.
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B.
Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers was an influential American psychologist and one of the founders of humanistic psychology, best known for developing client-centered (person-centered) therapy.
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C.
Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor best known for founding logotherapy and writing the influential memoir "Man's Search for Meaning."
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D.
Otto Rank
Otto Rank was an Austrian psychoanalyst and close collaborator of Sigmund Freud who became known for his innovative theories on creativity, the will, and the psychological impact of birth trauma.
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E.
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist best known for developing the hierarchy of needs theory, which emphasizes human motivation and self-actualization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Rollo May Description of subject: Rollo May was an American existential psychologist and author known for integrating existential philosophy with psychotherapy and exploring themes of anxiety, freedom, and human choice.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.