Wilhelm Dilthey
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Wilhelm Dilthey was a German philosopher and historian known for founding modern hermeneutics and developing a comprehensive theory of the human sciences (Geisteswissenschaften).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wilhelm Dilthey canonical | 18 |
| Dilthey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T225871 — 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: Wilhelm Dilthey Context triple: [Humboldt University of Berlin, hasNotableAlumni, Wilhelm Dilthey]
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Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher best known for his work on symbolic forms and the philosophy of culture.
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Moritz Schlick
Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher best known as the founder and leading figure of the Vienna Circle, which helped establish logical positivism as a major movement in 20th-century analytic philosophy.
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Herbert Feigl
Herbert Feigl was an Austrian-American philosopher of science and mind associated with the Vienna Circle, known for advancing logical empiricism and influential theories of scientific explanation and physicalism.
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D.
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his influential work on the philosophy of physics, probability, and the foundations of scientific knowledge.
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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: Wilhelm Dilthey Target entity description: Wilhelm Dilthey was a German philosopher and historian known for founding modern hermeneutics and developing a comprehensive theory of the human sciences (Geisteswissenschaften).
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A.
Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher best known for his work on symbolic forms and the philosophy of culture.
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B.
Moritz Schlick
Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher best known as the founder and leading figure of the Vienna Circle, which helped establish logical positivism as a major movement in 20th-century analytic philosophy.
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C.
Herbert Feigl
Herbert Feigl was an Austrian-American philosopher of science and mind associated with the Vienna Circle, known for advancing logical empiricism and influential theories of scientific explanation and physicalism.
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D.
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his influential work on the philosophy of physics, probability, and the foundations of scientific knowledge.
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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 (53)
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: Wilhelm Dilthey Description of subject: Wilhelm Dilthey was a German philosopher and historian known for founding modern hermeneutics and developing a comprehensive theory of the human sciences (Geisteswissenschaften).
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Dilthey