Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was a 16th-century German polymath, occult philosopher, and writer whose works on magic, mysticism, and esotericism profoundly influenced Western occult and hermetic traditions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa canonical | 2 |
| Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1001107 — 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: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Context triple: [Christian Kabbalah, hasNotableProponent, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]
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Johann Reuchlin
Johann Reuchlin was a German humanist scholar and pioneering Christian Hebraist whose defense of Jewish writings and engagement with Kabbalah made him a central figure of the Northern Renaissance.
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B.
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme was a German Christian mystic and theosophical writer whose visionary metaphysical ideas deeply influenced later German idealist and Romantic philosophy.
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C.
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino was a pivotal 15th-century Italian philosopher, priest, and translator whose revival of Plato and development of Neoplatonism profoundly shaped Renaissance thought and humanism.
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D.
Johannes Agricola
Johannes Agricola was a 16th-century German Protestant reformer and theologian known for his role in the early Reformation and his controversial antinomian views.
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E.
Ulrich von Hutten
Ulrich von Hutten was a German knight, humanist, and reformer known for his outspoken support of Martin Luther and his satirical attacks on the Catholic Church during the early Reformation.
- 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: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Target entity description: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was a 16th-century German polymath, occult philosopher, and writer whose works on magic, mysticism, and esotericism profoundly influenced Western occult and hermetic traditions.
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A.
Johann Reuchlin
Johann Reuchlin was a German humanist scholar and pioneering Christian Hebraist whose defense of Jewish writings and engagement with Kabbalah made him a central figure of the Northern Renaissance.
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B.
Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Levi was a 19th-century French occultist and writer whose works profoundly shaped modern Western esotericism and ceremonial magic.
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C.
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme was a German Christian mystic and theosophical writer whose visionary metaphysical ideas deeply influenced later German idealist and Romantic philosophy.
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D.
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino was a pivotal 15th-century Italian philosopher, priest, and translator whose revival of Plato and development of Neoplatonism profoundly shaped Renaissance thought and humanism.
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E.
Johannes Agricola
Johannes Agricola was a 16th-century German Protestant reformer and theologian known for his role in the early Reformation and his controversial antinomian views.
- 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: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Description of subject: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was a 16th-century German polymath, occult philosopher, and writer whose works on magic, mysticism, and esotericism profoundly influenced Western occult and hermetic traditions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim