Paul Ricoeur
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Paul Ricoeur was a 20th-century French philosopher known for his work in phenomenology and hermeneutics, especially his analyses of narrative, interpretation, and the nature of the self.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Ricoeur canonical | 9 |
| Jean Paul Gustave Ricoeur | 1 |
| Paul Ricœur | 1 |
| Ricoeur | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1444155 — 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: Paul Ricoeur Context triple: [Wilhelm Dilthey, influenced, Paul Ricoeur]
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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher best known as the founder of deconstruction, whose work profoundly influenced literary theory, philosophy, and critical theory in the late 20th century.
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B.
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential analyses of power, knowledge, and institutions in works such as "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality."
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C.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a 20th-century French phenomenologist whose work on perception, embodiment, and lived experience profoundly shaped continental philosophy and existentialism.
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D.
Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève was a 20th-century Russian-French philosopher best known for his influential Paris lectures on Hegel that shaped postwar French existentialism, structuralism, and political thought.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher best known for developing philosophical hermeneutics, particularly through his seminal work "Truth and Method."
- 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: Paul Ricoeur Target entity description: Paul Ricoeur was a 20th-century French philosopher known for his work in phenomenology and hermeneutics, especially his analyses of narrative, interpretation, and the nature of the self.
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A.
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher best known as the founder of deconstruction, whose work profoundly influenced literary theory, philosophy, and critical theory in the late 20th century.
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B.
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential analyses of power, knowledge, and institutions in works such as "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality."
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C.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a 20th-century French phenomenologist whose work on perception, embodiment, and lived experience profoundly shaped continental philosophy and existentialism.
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D.
Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève was a 20th-century Russian-French philosopher best known for his influential Paris lectures on Hegel that shaped postwar French existentialism, structuralism, and political thought.
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E.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher best known for developing philosophical hermeneutics, particularly through his seminal work "Truth and Method."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (75)
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: Paul Ricoeur Description of subject: Paul Ricoeur was a 20th-century French philosopher known for his work in phenomenology and hermeneutics, especially his analyses of narrative, interpretation, and the nature of the self.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Paul Ricœur
this entity surface form:
Jean Paul Gustave Ricoeur
this entity surface form:
Ricoeur