Nelson Goodman
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Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher best known for his influential work in logic, the philosophy of science, and aesthetics, particularly his "new riddle of induction" and theories of symbol systems.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nelson Goodman canonical | 17 |
| N. Goodman | 1 |
| Nelson Goodman influenced philosophy of art in the 20th century | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T511641 — 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: Nelson Goodman Context triple: [Rudolf Carnap, influenced, Nelson Goodman]
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Carl Hempel
Carl Hempel was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his work on logical empiricism and the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation.
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Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher and logician known for his work on ontological relativity, the indeterminacy of translation, and the critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction.
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Michael Dummett
Michael Dummett was a British philosopher renowned for his work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, and for his influential interpretations of analytic philosophy.
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Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in philosophy of mind, language, and science, including the development of functionalism and semantic externalism.
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Charles Hartshorne
Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher and theologian best known for developing process philosophy and process theology, emphasizing a dynamic, relational concept of God and reality.
- 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: Nelson Goodman Target entity description: Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher best known for his influential work in logic, the philosophy of science, and aesthetics, particularly his "new riddle of induction" and theories of symbol systems.
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A.
Carl Hempel
Carl Hempel was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his work on logical empiricism and the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation.
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B.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher and logician known for his work on ontological relativity, the indeterminacy of translation, and the critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction.
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C.
Michael Dummett
Michael Dummett was a British philosopher renowned for his work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, and for his influential interpretations of analytic philosophy.
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D.
Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in philosophy of mind, language, and science, including the development of functionalism and semantic externalism.
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E.
Charles Hartshorne
Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher and theologian best known for developing process philosophy and process theology, emphasizing a dynamic, relational concept of God and reality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Nelson Goodman Description of subject: Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher best known for his influential work in logic, the philosophy of science, and aesthetics, particularly his "new riddle of induction" and theories of symbol systems.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
N. Goodman
this entity surface form:
Nelson Goodman influenced philosophy of art in the 20th century