Karl

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Karl is the given name of Karl Popper, the influential 20th-century philosopher of science known for his theory of falsifiability.

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Label Occurrences
Karl canonical 4

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human
awardReceived Lippincott Award
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
surface form: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
citizenshipChangeReason emigration from Austria after rise of Nazism
countryOfCitizenship Austria
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1902-07-28
dateOfDeath 1994-09-17
educatedAt University of Vienna
employer London School of Economics
era 20th-century philosophy
ethnicGroup Jewish
familyName Karl Popper
surface form: Popper
fieldOfWork philosophy of science
fullName Karl Popper
givenName Karl self-linksurface differs
influenced Hans Albert
Imre Lakatos
Paul Feyerabend
Thomas Kuhn
influencedBy Albert Einstein
Bertrand Russell
Immanuel Kant
knownFor critique of historicism
demarcation problem in science
languageOfWorkOrName English
German
movement analytic philosophy
falsificationism
surface form: critical rationalism
notableFor contributions to philosophy of science
critical rationalism
falsificationism
surface form: theory of falsifiability
notableWork Conjectures and Refutations
Objective Knowledge
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Open Society and Its Enemies
occupation philosopher
professor
philosophicalConcept falsifiability
open society
three worlds theory
placeOfBirth Vienna
placeOfDeath London, England
surface form: London
religion agnosticism
residence London, England
surface form: London

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Vienna

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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.
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Subject: Karl
Description of subject: Karl is the given name of Karl Popper, the influential 20th-century philosopher of science known for his theory of falsifiability.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Karl Popper givenName Karl
Charles hasVariant Karl
Karl givenName Karl self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Karl Popper
Karl Korsch givenName Karl