Kai von Fintel
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Kai von Fintel is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in formal semantics and pragmatics and for his long-standing professorship at MIT.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kai von Fintel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9466649 — 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: Kai von Fintel Context triple: [MIT Linguistics Section, notableFaculty, Kai von Fintel]
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A.
Jarin Blaschke
Jarin Blaschke is an American cinematographer best known for his stark, atmospheric black-and-white work on films like "The Lighthouse."
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B.
Lukas Haas
Lukas Haas is an American actor known for his early breakthrough role in "Witness" (1985) and a diverse career spanning independent films and major Hollywood productions.
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C.
Topher Brink
Topher Brink is a brilliant but morally conflicted programmer and neuroscientist in the TV series "Dollhouse," responsible for designing and overseeing the mind-wiping and imprinting technology used on the show's "dolls."
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D.
Nico Habermann
Nico Habermann was a German-American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages, operating systems, and software engineering, and for his influential academic leadership at Carnegie Mellon University.
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E.
Kai Wegner
Kai Wegner is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who serves as the Governing Mayor of Berlin.
- 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: Kai von Fintel Target entity description: Kai von Fintel is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in formal semantics and pragmatics and for his long-standing professorship at MIT.
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A.
Jarin Blaschke
Jarin Blaschke is an American cinematographer best known for his stark, atmospheric black-and-white work on films like "The Lighthouse."
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B.
Lukas Haas
Lukas Haas is an American actor known for his early breakthrough role in "Witness" (1985) and a diverse career spanning independent films and major Hollywood productions.
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C.
Topher Brink
Topher Brink is a brilliant but morally conflicted programmer and neuroscientist in the TV series "Dollhouse," responsible for designing and overseeing the mind-wiping and imprinting technology used on the show's "dolls."
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D.
Nico Habermann
Nico Habermann was a German-American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming languages, operating systems, and software engineering, and for his influential academic leadership at Carnegie Mellon University.
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E.
Kai Wegner
Kai Wegner is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who serves as the Governing Mayor of Berlin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
linguist
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person ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
formal semantics
ⓘ
philosophy of language ⓘ |
| affiliation | MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Anthony S. Gillies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Irene Heim NERFINISHED ⓘ Lisa Matthewson NERFINISHED ⓘ Sabine Iatridou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959 ⓘ |
| doctoralThesis | “Restrictions on Quantifier Domains” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Cologne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Massachusetts Amherst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
formal semantics
ⓘ
linguistics ⓘ pragmatics ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Irene Heim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBlog | Semantics etc. ⓘ |
| hasTaughtAt | MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential work in formal semantics
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influential work in pragmatics ⓘ work on conditionals ⓘ work on presupposition and projection ⓘ work on quantifier domain restriction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ |
| memberOf | MIT Linguistics faculty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
“Conditionals and Presupposition Failure”
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
“Restrictions on Quantifier Domains” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Would You Believe It? The King of France is Back!” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
linguist
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professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bonn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Linguistics at MIT ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
conditionals
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context dependence ⓘ modality ⓘ presupposition ⓘ quantification ⓘ |
| spouse | Sabine Iatridou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teaches |
pragmatics
ⓘ
semantics ⓘ |
| website | https://mit.edu/fintel ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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: Kai von Fintel Description of subject: Kai von Fintel is a prominent linguist known for his influential work in formal semantics and pragmatics and for his long-standing professorship at MIT.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.