Søren Kierkegaard
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Søren Kierkegaard was a 19th-century Danish philosopher, theologian, and writer widely regarded as the father of existentialism, known for his critiques of Hegelianism and Christendom and his exploration of individual faith and subjectivity.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Søren Kierkegaard canonical | 85 |
| Kierkegaard | 2 |
| Søren Aabye Kierkegaard | 1 |
| Søren Kierkegaard's authorship | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T225863 — 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: Søren Kierkegaard Context triple: [Humboldt University of Berlin, hasNotableAlumni, Søren Kierkegaard]
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his critiques of traditional morality and religion, the concept of the "will to power," and the proclamation that "God is dead."
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B.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his pessimistic worldview and his major work "The World as Will and Representation," which profoundly influenced later existentialist and psychoanalytic thought.
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C.
G. W. F. Hegel
G. W. F. Hegel was a German idealist philosopher whose dialectical method and comprehensive system of absolute idealism profoundly influenced 19th- and 20th-century philosophy, politics, and theology.
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D.
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher whose critical philosophy, especially in works like "Critique of Pure Reason," profoundly shaped modern epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.
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E.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher was a German Protestant theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar often regarded as the father of modern liberal theology and a key figure in hermeneutics.
- 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: Søren Kierkegaard Target entity description: Søren Kierkegaard was a 19th-century Danish philosopher, theologian, and writer widely regarded as the father of existentialism, known for his critiques of Hegelianism and Christendom and his exploration of individual faith and subjectivity.
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A.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his critiques of traditional morality and religion, the concept of the "will to power," and the proclamation that "God is dead."
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B.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his pessimistic worldview and his major work "The World as Will and Representation," which profoundly influenced later existentialist and psychoanalytic thought.
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C.
G. W. F. Hegel
G. W. F. Hegel was a German idealist philosopher whose dialectical method and comprehensive system of absolute idealism profoundly influenced 19th- and 20th-century philosophy, politics, and theology.
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D.
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher whose critical philosophy, especially in works like "Critique of Pure Reason," profoundly shaped modern epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.
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E.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher was a German Protestant theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar often regarded as the father of modern liberal theology and a key figure in hermeneutics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (80)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Søren Kierkegaard Description of subject: Søren Kierkegaard was a 19th-century Danish philosopher, theologian, and writer widely regarded as the father of existentialism, known for his critiques of Hegelianism and Christendom and his exploration of individual faith and subjectivity.
Referenced by (89)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kierkegaard
subject surface form:
Church Dogmatics