Jan Patočka
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Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher and one of the most important Central European thinkers of the 20th century, known for his phenomenological work and his role as a leading dissident under the communist regime.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jan Patočka canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2879323 — 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: Jan Patočka Context triple: [Charter 77, signedBy, Jan Patočka]
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A.
Otton Nikodym
Otton Nikodym was a Polish mathematician best known for his fundamental contributions to measure theory, particularly the Radon–Nikodym theorem.
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B.
Miroslav Tyrš
Miroslav Tyrš was a Czech art historian, philosopher, and nationalist who co-founded the Sokol movement, which combined physical education with cultural and patriotic ideals in the Czech lands.
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C.
František Moravec
František Moravec was a Czechoslovak military intelligence officer and key resistance leader during World War II, best known for organizing covert operations against Nazi Germany.
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D.
František Kučera
František Kučera is a former Czech ice hockey defenceman known for his international success with the Czech national team and a lengthy professional career in Europe and the NHL.
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E.
Lev Shestov
Lev Shestov was a Russian existentialist philosopher known for his critiques of rationalism and his emphasis on faith, freedom, and the absurd in human existence.
- 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: Jan Patočka Target entity description: Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher and one of the most important Central European thinkers of the 20th century, known for his phenomenological work and his role as a leading dissident under the communist regime.
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A.
Otton Nikodym
Otton Nikodym was a Polish mathematician best known for his fundamental contributions to measure theory, particularly the Radon–Nikodym theorem.
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B.
Miroslav Tyrš
Miroslav Tyrš was a Czech art historian, philosopher, and nationalist who co-founded the Sokol movement, which combined physical education with cultural and patriotic ideals in the Czech lands.
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C.
František Moravec
František Moravec was a Czechoslovak military intelligence officer and key resistance leader during World War II, best known for organizing covert operations against Nazi Germany.
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D.
František Kučera
František Kučera is a former Czech ice hockey defenceman known for his international success with the Czech national team and a lengthy professional career in Europe and the NHL.
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E.
Lev Shestov
Lev Shestov was a Russian existentialist philosopher known for his critiques of rationalism and his emphasis on faith, freedom, and the absurd in human existence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
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: Jan Patočka Description of subject: Jan Patočka was a Czech philosopher and one of the most important Central European thinkers of the 20th century, known for his phenomenological work and his role as a leading dissident under the communist regime.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Charter 77
subject surface form:
Charter 77