Alain Badiou
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Alain Badiou is a French philosopher known for his work on ontology, set theory, and political theory, and for being a leading figure in contemporary continental philosophy.
All labels observed (1)
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| Alain Badiou canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4311768 — 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: Alain Badiou Context triple: [Theodor W. Adorno Award, notableRecipient, Alain Badiou]
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Fanny Deleuze
Fanny Deleuze was the wife of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and a close companion throughout his intellectual and personal life.
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Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze was a 20th-century French philosopher known for his influential work on metaphysics, difference, and desire, and for his collaborations with Félix Guattari on concepts such as rhizomes and deterritorialization.
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C.
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher best known as the founder of deconstruction, whose work profoundly influenced literary theory, philosophy, and critical theory in the late 20th century.
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D.
Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève was a 20th-century Russian-French philosopher best known for his influential Paris lectures on Hegel that shaped postwar French existentialism, structuralism, and political thought.
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E.
Jean Hyppolite
Jean Hyppolite was a French philosopher and influential Hegel scholar whose work helped shape 20th-century French existentialism and structuralism.
- 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: Alain Badiou Target entity description: Alain Badiou is a French philosopher known for his work on ontology, set theory, and political theory, and for being a leading figure in contemporary continental philosophy.
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A.
Fanny Deleuze
Fanny Deleuze was the wife of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and a close companion throughout his intellectual and personal life.
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B.
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze was a 20th-century French philosopher known for his influential work on metaphysics, difference, and desire, and for his collaborations with Félix Guattari on concepts such as rhizomes and deterritorialization.
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C.
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher best known as the founder of deconstruction, whose work profoundly influenced literary theory, philosophy, and critical theory in the late 20th century.
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D.
Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève was a 20th-century Russian-French philosopher best known for his influential Paris lectures on Hegel that shaped postwar French existentialism, structuralism, and political thought.
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E.
Jean Hyppolite
Jean Hyppolite was a French philosopher and influential Hegel scholar whose work helped shape 20th-century French existentialism and structuralism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
continental philosopher
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ playwright ⓘ political philosopher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| alive | true ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Morocco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-01-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Paris
NERFINISHED
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École normale supérieure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Collège international de philosophie
NERFINISHED
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Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis NERFINISHED ⓘ École normale supérieure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Badiou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ontology
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philosophy ⓘ political theory ⓘ set theory ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophical literature
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political essay ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Alain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Alberto Toscano
NERFINISHED
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Bruno Bosteels NERFINISHED ⓘ Quentin Meillassoux NERFINISHED ⓘ Slavoj Žižek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bertrand Russell
NERFINISHED
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel NERFINISHED ⓘ Gottlob Frege NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Paul Sartre NERFINISHED ⓘ Karl Marx ⓘ Louis Althusser NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Heidegger NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Cohen NERFINISHED ⓘ Plato ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | French ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
ethics
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metaphysics ⓘ ontology ⓘ philosophy of mathematics ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary continental philosophy ⓘ |
| name | Alain Badiou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Being and Event
NERFINISHED
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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil NERFINISHED ⓘ Logics of Worlds NERFINISHED ⓘ Manifesto for Philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ Metapolitics NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism NERFINISHED ⓘ The Meaning of Sarkozy NERFINISHED ⓘ Theory of the Subject NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcept |
event
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fidelity ⓘ subject ⓘ truth procedure ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Rabat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalPosition |
Maoism
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communism ⓘ |
| usesMathematics |
Cantorian set theory
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forcing ⓘ set theory ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Referenced by (6)
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Alain