killed his wife Hélène Rytmann in 1980
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Louis Althusser was a prominent 20th-century French Marxist philosopher known for his structuralist reinterpretation of Marxism and his influential works on ideology and state apparatuses.
All labels observed (1)
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| killed his wife Hélène Rytmann in 1980 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9382461 — 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)
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Target entity: killed his wife Hélène Rytmann in 1980 Context triple: [Louis Althusser, notableEvent, killed his wife Hélène Rytmann in 1980]
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Franz Kutschera killed
Franz Kutschera was a high-ranking SS and Nazi official who served as the brutal SS and Police Leader in occupied Warsaw during World War II.
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Katharina Pistor
Katharina Pistor is a legal scholar known for her influential work on the legal foundations of capitalism, comparative corporate governance, and the role of law in shaping global financial systems.
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Marthe Meurier
Marthe Meurier was the wife of French Nabi painter Maurice Denis and a figure within his artistic and domestic circle in late 19th- and early 20th-century France.
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murder of Albert Snyder
The murder of Albert Snyder was a notorious 1927 New York crime in which his wife Ruth Snyder and her lover Judd Gray killed him in a plot that led to sensational media coverage and their executions in the electric chair.
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E.
Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife
"Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife" is a Victorian-era crime and psychological novel by Caroline Clive that explores the motives and moral complexities behind a seemingly respectable man's murder of his wife.
- 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: killed his wife Hélène Rytmann in 1980 Target entity description: Louis Althusser was a prominent 20th-century French Marxist philosopher known for his structuralist reinterpretation of Marxism and his influential works on ideology and state apparatuses.
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A.
Franz Kutschera killed
Franz Kutschera was a high-ranking SS and Nazi official who served as the brutal SS and Police Leader in occupied Warsaw during World War II.
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B.
Katharina Pistor
Katharina Pistor is a legal scholar known for her influential work on the legal foundations of capitalism, comparative corporate governance, and the role of law in shaping global financial systems.
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C.
Marthe Meurier
Marthe Meurier was the wife of French Nabi painter Maurice Denis and a figure within his artistic and domestic circle in late 19th- and early 20th-century France.
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D.
murder of Albert Snyder
The murder of Albert Snyder was a notorious 1927 New York crime in which his wife Ruth Snyder and her lover Judd Gray killed him in a plot that led to sensational media coverage and their executions in the electric chair.
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E.
Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife
"Why Paul Ferroll Killed his Wife" is a Victorian-era crime and psychological novel by Caroline Clive that explores the motives and moral complexities behind a seemingly respectable man's murder of his wife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French person
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Marxist philosopher ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1918-10-16 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1990-10-22 ⓘ |
| diagnosedWith | mental illness ⓘ |
| educatedAt | École normale supérieure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | École normale supérieure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Althusser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Marxist theory
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philosophy of ideology ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| givenName | Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Jacques Rancière
NERFINISHED
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Nicos Poulantzas NERFINISHED ⓘ Slavoj Žižek NERFINISHED ⓘ Étienne Balibar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Baruch Spinoza
NERFINISHED
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G. W. F. Hegel NERFINISHED ⓘ Karl Marx ⓘ |
| killed | Hélène Rytmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killingDate | 1980 ⓘ |
| killingLocation | École normale supérieure, Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killingMethod | strangulation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| legalOutcome | found not criminally responsible due to mental illness ⓘ |
| memberOf | French Communist Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
Marxism
NERFINISHED
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structuralism ⓘ |
| name | Louis Althusser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
ideological state apparatuses
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structuralist Marxism NERFINISHED ⓘ theoretical anti-humanism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
For Marx
NERFINISHED
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Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses NERFINISHED ⓘ Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays NERFINISHED ⓘ Reading Capital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
philosopher
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university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Birmandreis, French Algeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Paris
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surface form:
Paris, France
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| spouse | Hélène Rytmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: killed his wife Hélène Rytmann in 1980 Description of subject: Louis Althusser was a prominent 20th-century French Marxist philosopher known for his structuralist reinterpretation of Marxism and his influential works on ideology and state apparatuses.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.