Alexis de Tocqueville
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Alexis de Tocqueville was a 19th-century French political thinker and historian best known for his analysis of democracy and society in works such as "Democracy in America."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexis de Tocqueville canonical | 38 |
| Tocqueville | 2 |
| Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville | 1 |
| Clérel de Tocqueville | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Alexis de Tocqueville Context triple: [John Stuart Mill, influencedBy, Alexis de Tocqueville]
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Montesquieu
Montesquieu was an influential French Enlightenment philosopher best known for his theory of the separation of powers, which profoundly shaped modern constitutional government.
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Alfred Sauvy
Alfred Sauvy was a French demographer, sociologist, and economist best known for introducing the term "Third World" to describe countries not aligned with either the Western or Eastern blocs during the Cold War.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th-century Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose works on political theory, education, and human nature profoundly influenced modern democracy, romanticism, and revolutionary thought.
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D.
James Mill
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and prominent utilitarian philosopher associated with Jeremy Bentham and the early 19th-century British reform movement.
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E.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a 19th-century French philosopher and economist, best known as a pioneering theorist of anarchism and mutualism whose critiques of property and authority deeply shaped libertarian socialist thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Alexis de Tocqueville Target entity description: Alexis de Tocqueville was a 19th-century French political thinker and historian best known for his analysis of democracy and society in works such as "Democracy in America."
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A.
Montesquieu
Montesquieu was an influential French Enlightenment philosopher best known for his theory of the separation of powers, which profoundly shaped modern constitutional government.
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B.
Alfred Sauvy
Alfred Sauvy was a French demographer, sociologist, and economist best known for introducing the term "Third World" to describe countries not aligned with either the Western or Eastern blocs during the Cold War.
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C.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th-century Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose works on political theory, education, and human nature profoundly influenced modern democracy, romanticism, and revolutionary thought.
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D.
James Mill
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and prominent utilitarian philosopher associated with Jeremy Bentham and the early 19th-century British reform movement.
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E.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a 19th-century French philosopher and economist, best known as a pioneering theorist of anarchism and mutualism whose critiques of property and authority deeply shaped libertarian socialist thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historian
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human ⓘ political thinker ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| birthCountry | France ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1805-07-29 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Paris ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Tocqueville, Manche, France ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| coTraveler | Gustave de Beaumont ⓘ |
| deathCountry | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1859-04-16 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Cannes ⓘ |
| familyName |
Alexis de Tocqueville
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Clérel de Tocqueville
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| fieldOfWork |
history
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political philosophy ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| fullName |
Alexis de Tocqueville
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville
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| givenName | Alexis ⓘ |
| heldPosition |
Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs
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surface form:
Foreign Minister of France
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| ideology | liberalism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hannah Arendt
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John Stuart Mill ⓘ Raymond Aron ⓘ Robert Nisbet ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Montesquieu ⓘ |
| knownFor |
analysis of democracy in the United States
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comparative analysis of aristocracy and democracy ⓘ concept of the tyranny of the majority ⓘ theory of civil society ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| movement | classical liberalism ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Democracy in America
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The Old Regime and the Revolution ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
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magistrate ⓘ political scientist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| originalTitleOfWork |
Democracy in America
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surface form:
De la démocratie en Amérique
The Old Regime and the Revolution ⓘ
surface form:
L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution
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| politicalAffiliation | French Second Republic ⓘ |
| servedAs |
deputy in the French Chamber of Deputies
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member of the Constituent Assembly of 1848 ⓘ member of the Legislative Assembly of the French Second Republic ⓘ |
| termAsForeignMinisterStart | 1849 ⓘ |
| traveledTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| travelPurpose | study of the American prison system ⓘ |
| travelStartYear | 1831 ⓘ |
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Subject: Alexis de Tocqueville Description of subject: Alexis de Tocqueville was a 19th-century French political thinker and historian best known for his analysis of democracy and society in works such as "Democracy in America."
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