Carl Lange
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Carl Lange was a Danish physician and psychologist best known for co-developing the James–Lange theory of emotion, which links emotional experience to physiological responses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carl Lange canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7411112 — 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: Carl Lange Context triple: [James–Lange theory of emotion, namedAfter, Carl Lange]
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Oswald Külpe
Oswald Külpe was a German experimental psychologist and philosopher known for founding the Würzburg School and challenging Wilhelm Wundt’s views on the nature of thought.
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B.
August Forel
August Forel was a Swiss psychiatrist, neuroanatomist, and entomologist renowned for his pioneering work in brain research, hypnosis, and the study of ants.
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C.
Ernst Weber
Ernst Weber was a pioneering German physician and physiologist whose work on sensory perception helped establish the field of experimental psychology, particularly through his formulation of Weber's law.
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D.
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt was a German physician, physiologist, and philosopher widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology and the first psychological laboratory.
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E.
Otto Fenichel
Otto Fenichel was an influential Austrian psychoanalyst known for his Marxist-oriented theoretical work and his comprehensive syntheses of Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
- 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: Carl Lange Target entity description: Carl Lange was a Danish physician and psychologist best known for co-developing the James–Lange theory of emotion, which links emotional experience to physiological responses.
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A.
Oswald Külpe
Oswald Külpe was a German experimental psychologist and philosopher known for founding the Würzburg School and challenging Wilhelm Wundt’s views on the nature of thought.
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B.
August Forel
August Forel was a Swiss psychiatrist, neuroanatomist, and entomologist renowned for his pioneering work in brain research, hypnosis, and the study of ants.
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C.
Ernst Weber
Ernst Weber was a pioneering German physician and physiologist whose work on sensory perception helped establish the field of experimental psychology, particularly through his formulation of Weber's law.
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D.
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt was a German physician, physiologist, and philosopher widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology and the first psychological laboratory.
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E.
Otto Fenichel
Otto Fenichel was an influential Austrian psychoanalyst known for his Marxist-oriented theoretical work and his comprehensive syntheses of Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
physician ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
psychophysiology
ⓘ
theories of emotion ⓘ |
| coDeveloperOf | James–Lange theory of emotion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Denmark ⓘ |
| familyName | Lange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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neurology ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| givenName | Carl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline | physiological psychology ⓘ |
| influenced | William James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Danish ⓘ |
| nationality | Danish ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-developing the James–Lange theory of emotion ⓘ |
| notableIdea | emotions arise from the perception of physiological changes ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
ⓘ
psychologist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharesEponymWith | James–Lange theory of emotion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theoryDescribedIn | James–Lange theory of emotion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Copenhagen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Carl Lange Description of subject: Carl Lange was a Danish physician and psychologist best known for co-developing the James–Lange theory of emotion, which links emotional experience to physiological responses.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.