Sinn
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Sinn is Gottlob Frege’s notion of “sense,” the mode of presentation through which a linguistic expression conveys its reference and cognitive significance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sinn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10729133 — 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: Sinn Context triple: [On Sense and Reference, centralConcept, Sinn]
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A.
Sinn
Sinn is a river in northern Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the Lower Franconia region.
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B.
Sinnes
Sinnes is a small village in Sirdal municipality in Agder county, Norway, known as a gateway to nearby mountain and ski areas.
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C.
Meiningsen
Meiningsen is a village and district of the town of Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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D.
Sinuessa
Sinuessa was an ancient Roman coastal town in Campania, Italy, known for its strategic location along major roads and its nearby thermal baths.
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E.
Nil Sine Numine
Nil Sine Numine is a Latin phrase meaning "Nothing without divine will" or "Nothing without the deity," expressing reliance on a higher power.
- 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: Sinn Target entity description: Sinn is Gottlob Frege’s notion of “sense,” the mode of presentation through which a linguistic expression conveys its reference and cognitive significance.
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A.
Sinn
Sinn is a river in northern Bavaria, Germany, that flows through the Lower Franconia region.
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B.
Sinnes
Sinnes is a small village in Sirdal municipality in Agder county, Norway, known as a gateway to nearby mountain and ski areas.
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C.
Meiningsen
Meiningsen is a village and district of the town of Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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D.
Sinuessa
Sinuessa was an ancient Roman coastal town in Campania, Italy, known for its strategic location along major roads and its nearby thermal baths.
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E.
Nil Sine Numine
Nil Sine Numine is a Latin phrase meaning "Nothing without divine will" or "Nothing without the deity," expressing reliance on a higher power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
philosophical concept
ⓘ
semantic notion ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
sub-sentential expressions
ⓘ
whole sentences ⓘ |
| associatedWithExample | Morning Star and Evening Star GENERATED ⓘ |
| considered |
objective
ⓘ
shareable among different thinkers ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Bedeutung ⓘ |
| coreThesis |
expressions with the same reference can have different senses
ⓘ
understanding an expression involves grasping its sense ⓘ |
| describes | mode of presentation of a reference ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
mental image
ⓘ
subjective idea ⓘ |
| explains |
cognitive significance of an expression
ⓘ
informational content of an expression ⓘ |
| field |
logic
ⓘ
philosophy of language ⓘ semantics ⓘ |
| hasDebateOn |
number of senses per expression
ⓘ
objectivity of senses ⓘ psychologism vs anti-psychologism ⓘ relation to propositions ⓘ |
| hasEnglishContrastTerm | reference ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | sense ⓘ |
| hasRole |
determines reference
ⓘ
mediates between expression and object ⓘ |
| influenced |
Fregean theories of meaning
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Russellian theories of descriptions ⓘ analytic philosophy ⓘ contemporary philosophy of language ⓘ |
| inSentenceHasObject | truth-value as Bedeutung ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Gottlob Frege NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInWork | Über Sinn und Bedeutung ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1892 ⓘ |
| languageOfTerm | German ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
cognitive value
ⓘ
intension ⓘ proposition ⓘ |
| relatesTo |
linguistic expression
ⓘ
proper name ⓘ sentence ⓘ singular term ⓘ |
| usedToSolve |
problem of informative identity statements
ⓘ
puzzle of a = a vs a = b ⓘ |
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: Sinn Description of subject: Sinn is Gottlob Frege’s notion of “sense,” the mode of presentation through which a linguistic expression conveys its reference and cognitive significance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.