Michael Walzer
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Michael Walzer is an American political theorist best known for his work on justice, war, and ethics, particularly in his influential book "Just and Unjust Wars."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Walzer canonical | 13 |
| Walzer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T641496 — 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: Michael Walzer Context triple: [Isaiah Berlin, influenced, Michael Walzer]
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John Rawls
John Rawls was a 20th-century American political philosopher best known for his theory of justice as fairness, which profoundly shaped contemporary liberal political thought.
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B.
Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was a prominent 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his critiques of utilitarianism and moral theory, his emphasis on the complexity of ethical life, and his influential work on integrity, moral luck, and the history of philosophy.
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C.
Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas is an influential American theologian and ethicist known for his work on virtue ethics, the role of the church as an alternative community, and the critique of liberalism within Christian moral theology.
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D.
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick was an influential American political philosopher best known for his libertarian theory of the minimal state, especially articulated in his book "Anarchy, State, and Utopia."
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E.
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher renowned for her work in ethics, political philosophy, and the capabilities approach to human development.
- 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: Michael Walzer Target entity description: Michael Walzer is an American political theorist best known for his work on justice, war, and ethics, particularly in his influential book "Just and Unjust Wars."
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A.
John Rawls
John Rawls was a 20th-century American political philosopher best known for his theory of justice as fairness, which profoundly shaped contemporary liberal political thought.
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B.
Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was a prominent 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his critiques of utilitarianism and moral theory, his emphasis on the complexity of ethical life, and his influential work on integrity, moral luck, and the history of philosophy.
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C.
Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas is an influential American theologian and ethicist known for his work on virtue ethics, the role of the church as an alternative community, and the critique of liberalism within Christian moral theology.
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D.
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick was an influential American political philosopher best known for his libertarian theory of the minimal state, especially articulated in his book "Anarchy, State, and Utopia."
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E.
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher renowned for her work in ethics, political philosophy, and the capabilities approach to human development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Michael Walzer Description of subject: Michael Walzer is an American political theorist best known for his work on justice, war, and ethics, particularly in his influential book "Just and Unjust Wars."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Walzer
subject surface form:
Just war theory
subject surface form:
Dissent