Guy Debord
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Guy Debord was a French Marxist theorist, filmmaker, and founding member of the Situationist International, best known for his critique of consumer society in his book "The Society of the Spectacle."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Guy Debord canonical | 9 |
| Debord | 1 |
| Guy-Ernest Debord | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4054081 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guy Debord Context triple: [György Lukács, influenced, Guy Debord]
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Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille was a French writer and philosopher known for his transgressive explorations of eroticism, mysticism, and excess, and for his influential contributions to 20th-century continental thought.
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Félix Guattari
Félix Guattari was a French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and political activist best known for his influential collaborations with Gilles Deleuze on works such as *Anti-Oedipus* and *A Thousand Plateaus*.
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Michel de Certeau
Michel de Certeau was a French Jesuit scholar, historian, and cultural theorist best known for his work "The Practice of Everyday Life," which explores how ordinary people tactically navigate and subvert structures of power in daily life.
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Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist best known for his influential work on everyday life, urban space, and the social production of space.
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Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist known for his influential reflections on literature, language, and the experience of absence and death.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Guy Debord Target entity description: Guy Debord was a French Marxist theorist, filmmaker, and founding member of the Situationist International, best known for his critique of consumer society in his book "The Society of the Spectacle."
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A.
Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille was a French writer and philosopher known for his transgressive explorations of eroticism, mysticism, and excess, and for his influential contributions to 20th-century continental thought.
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B.
Félix Guattari
Félix Guattari was a French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and political activist best known for his influential collaborations with Gilles Deleuze on works such as *Anti-Oedipus* and *A Thousand Plateaus*.
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C.
Michel de Certeau
Michel de Certeau was a French Jesuit scholar, historian, and cultural theorist best known for his work "The Practice of Everyday Life," which explores how ordinary people tactically navigate and subvert structures of power in daily life.
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D.
Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist best known for his influential work on everyday life, urban space, and the social production of space.
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E.
Maurice Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist known for his influential reflections on literature, language, and the experience of absence and death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French person
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Marxist theorist ⓘ essayist ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ political theorist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| birthName |
Guy Debord
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Guy-Ernest Debord
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| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| coFounded | Situationist International ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-12-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-11-30 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Guy Debord
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Debord
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| fieldOfWork |
critical theory
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film ⓘ political theory ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| founded | Lettrist International ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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experimental film ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| givenName | Guy-Ernest ⓘ |
| ideology |
Marxism
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revolutionary socialism ⓘ |
| influenced |
May 1968 protests in France
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contemporary critical theory ⓘ media theory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
concept of the spectacle
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critique of consumer society ⓘ role in Situationist International ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| movement |
Marxism
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Situationism ⓘ Situationist International ⓘ Western Marxism ⓘ avant-garde ⓘ |
| name | Guy Debord self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Society of the Spectacle
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surface form:
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
Critique of Separation ⓘ Howls for Sade ⓘ In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni ⓘ The Society of the Spectacle ⓘ |
| occupation |
filmmaker
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publisher ⓘ theorist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paris ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bellevue-la-Montagne ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alice Becker-Ho
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Michèle Bernstein ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Guy Debord Description of subject: Guy Debord was a French Marxist theorist, filmmaker, and founding member of the Situationist International, best known for his critique of consumer society in his book "The Society of the Spectacle."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Guy-Ernest Debord
this entity surface form:
Debord