Jerry Fodor
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Jerry Fodor was an influential American philosopher and cognitive scientist best known for his work on the philosophy of mind, particularly the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypothesis.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerry Fodor canonical | 8 |
| Jerry A. Fodor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2988546 — 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: Jerry Fodor Context triple: [Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, California, United States, notableBurial, Jerry Fodor]
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Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff is an American linguist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on generative grammar, the interface between syntax and semantics, and the architecture of the language faculty.
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Norman E. Thagard
Norman E. Thagard is an American physician, former U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut who became the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
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C.
Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, free will, and the philosophy of mind from a naturalistic, evolutionary perspective.
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D.
Mario Bunge
Mario Bunge was an Argentine philosopher and physicist renowned for his rigorous defense of scientific realism and systematic, naturalistic philosophy across metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
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E.
Donald Davidson
Donald Davidson was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, mind, and action, particularly his theories of radical interpretation and anomalous monism.
- 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: Jerry Fodor Target entity description: Jerry Fodor was an influential American philosopher and cognitive scientist best known for his work on the philosophy of mind, particularly the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypothesis.
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A.
Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff is an American linguist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on generative grammar, the interface between syntax and semantics, and the architecture of the language faculty.
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B.
Norman E. Thagard
Norman E. Thagard is an American physician, former U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut who became the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
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C.
Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, free will, and the philosophy of mind from a naturalistic, evolutionary perspective.
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D.
Mario Bunge
Mario Bunge was an Argentine philosopher and physicist renowned for his rigorous defense of scientific realism and systematic, naturalistic philosophy across metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
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E.
Donald Davidson
Donald Davidson was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, mind, and action, particularly his theories of radical interpretation and anomalous monism.
- 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: Jerry Fodor Description of subject: Jerry Fodor was an influential American philosopher and cognitive scientist best known for his work on the philosophy of mind, particularly the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypothesis.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jerry A. Fodor