Jon Barwise
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Jon Barwise was an American logician and philosopher known for his influential work in model theory, situation semantics, and the foundations of mathematics and logic.
All labels observed (1)
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| Jon Barwise canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10063164 — 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: Jon Barwise Context triple: [Leon Henkin, notableStudent, Jon Barwise]
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Stephen Yablo
Stephen Yablo is an American philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of language and logic, including his formulation of "Yablo's paradox" and extensive analysis of semantic paradoxes.
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B.
Michael Resnik
Michael Resnik is an American philosopher of mathematics known for his influential work on structuralism and the philosophy of logic.
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C.
David E. Lewis
David E. Lewis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the acclaimed 1971 neo-noir thriller film "Klute."
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D.
Robert Brandom
Robert Brandom is an American philosopher best known for his work in analytic philosophy, particularly in the philosophy of language, pragmatism, and inferentialism about meaning and normativity.
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E.
Stewart Shapiro
Stewart Shapiro is an American philosopher and logician known for his influential work in the philosophy of mathematics, particularly on structuralism and the nature of mathematical objects.
- 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: Jon Barwise Target entity description: Jon Barwise was an American logician and philosopher known for his influential work in model theory, situation semantics, and the foundations of mathematics and logic.
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A.
Stephen Yablo
Stephen Yablo is an American philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of language and logic, including his formulation of "Yablo's paradox" and extensive analysis of semantic paradoxes.
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B.
Michael Resnik
Michael Resnik is an American philosopher of mathematics known for his influential work on structuralism and the philosophy of logic.
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C.
David E. Lewis
David E. Lewis is a screenwriter best known for his work on the acclaimed 1971 neo-noir thriller film "Klute."
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D.
Robert Brandom
Robert Brandom is an American philosopher best known for his work in analytic philosophy, particularly in the philosophy of language, pragmatism, and inferentialism about meaning and normativity.
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E.
Stewart Shapiro
Stewart Shapiro is an American philosopher and logician known for his influential work in the philosophy of mathematics, particularly on structuralism and the nature of mathematical objects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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logician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in mathematics ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
John Perry
NERFINISHED
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Lawrence Moss NERFINISHED ⓘ Solomon Feferman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-06-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2000-03-05 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Dana Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford University
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
Center for the Study of Language and Information
NERFINISHED
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Indiana University Bloomington NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ University of Wisconsin–Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Barwise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
foundations of mathematics
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logic ⓘ model theory ⓘ philosophical logic ⓘ philosophy of mathematics ⓘ set theory ⓘ situation semantics ⓘ theoretical computer science ⓘ |
| givenName | Jon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
foundations of mathematics
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model theory ⓘ situation semantics NERFINISHED ⓘ work on admissible sets ⓘ work on the liar paradox ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Mathematical Society
NERFINISHED
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Association for Symbolic Logic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Jon Barwise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Admissible Sets and Structures
NERFINISHED
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Handbook of Mathematical Logic NERFINISHED ⓘ Situations and Attitudes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Liar: An Essay on Truth and Circularity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
logician
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mathematician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Independence, Missouri, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
NERFINISHED
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanford, California, United States of America 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.
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Subject: Jon Barwise Description of subject: Jon Barwise was an American logician and philosopher known for his influential work in model theory, situation semantics, and the foundations of mathematics and logic.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Perry