Thomas Metzinger
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Thomas Metzinger is a German philosopher and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, self-model theory, and the philosophy of mind.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Metzinger canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3840373 — 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: Thomas Metzinger Context triple: [Conversations on Consciousness, hasContributor, Thomas Metzinger]
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A.
Christof Koch
Christof Koch is a neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on the neural basis of consciousness and long collaboration with Francis Crick.
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B.
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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C.
Michel Serres
Michel Serres was a French philosopher and historian of science known for his interdisciplinary work linking science, literature, and philosophy, and for developing influential concepts about communication, networks, and complexity.
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D.
Patricia Churchland
Patricia Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher renowned for her pioneering work in neurophilosophy, exploring how neuroscience informs and reshapes traditional questions in philosophy of mind and ethics.
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E.
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.
- 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: Thomas Metzinger Target entity description: Thomas Metzinger is a German philosopher and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, self-model theory, and the philosophy of mind.
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A.
Christof Koch
Christof Koch is a neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on the neural basis of consciousness and long collaboration with Francis Crick.
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B.
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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C.
Michel Serres
Michel Serres was a French philosopher and historian of science known for his interdisciplinary work linking science, literature, and philosophy, and for developing influential concepts about communication, networks, and complexity.
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D.
Patricia Churchland
Patricia Churchland is a Canadian-American philosopher renowned for her pioneering work in neurophilosophy, exploring how neuroscience informs and reshapes traditional questions in philosophy of mind and ethics.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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cognitive scientist ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| citizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| familyName |
Jean Metzinger
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surface form:
Metzinger
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| fieldOfWork |
cognitive science
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neuroethics ⓘ philosophy of cognitive science ⓘ philosophy of consciousness ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
neuroscience (philosophical aspects)
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philosophy ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
first-person perspective as a model
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phenomenal model of the intentionality relation ⓘ transparency of mental representations ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
analytic philosophy
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cognitive neuroscience ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
philosophy of mind
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self-model theory ⓘ work on consciousness ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Metzinger self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
no-self view of the self
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phenomenal self-model ⓘ self-model theory of subjectivity ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Being No One
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Neuroethics and Consciousness Research ⓘ The Ego Tunnel ⓘ |
| occupation |
cognitive scientist
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philosopher ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
artificial consciousness
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consciousness ⓘ ethics of consciousness ⓘ philosophy of neuroscience ⓘ self-consciousness ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
altered states of consciousness
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ethics of artificial intelligence ⓘ meditation and consciousness ⓘ out-of-body experiences ⓘ virtual reality and self-models ⓘ |
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: Thomas Metzinger Description of subject: Thomas Metzinger is a German philosopher and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on consciousness, self-model theory, and the philosophy of mind.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.