Binswanger
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Binswanger is a Swiss surname most notably associated with psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger, a pioneer of existential and phenomenological approaches in psychiatry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Binswanger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10947801 — 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: Binswanger Context triple: [Ludwig Binswanger, familyName, Binswanger]
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MCI-Shirley
MCI-Shirley is a medium- and minimum-security state prison for men located in Shirley, Massachusetts.
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Alzon
The Alzon is a river in southern France that flows through the Gard department, including the town of Uzès.
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Virchow–Robin spaces
Virchow–Robin spaces are perivascular, fluid-filled spaces that surround blood vessels as they penetrate the brain, visible on neuroimaging and often associated with various neurological conditions.
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Witiges
Witiges was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths best known for leading the Gothic resistance against the Eastern Roman Empire during the Gothic War in Italy.
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E.
Eales
Eales is an English-language surname most notably associated with Australian rugby union legend John Eales.
- 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: Binswanger Target entity description: Binswanger is a Swiss surname most notably associated with psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger, a pioneer of existential and phenomenological approaches in psychiatry.
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A.
MCI-Shirley
MCI-Shirley is a medium- and minimum-security state prison for men located in Shirley, Massachusetts.
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B.
Alzon
The Alzon is a river in southern France that flows through the Gard department, including the town of Uzès.
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C.
Virchow–Robin spaces
Virchow–Robin spaces are perivascular, fluid-filled spaces that surround blood vessels as they penetrate the brain, visible on neuroimaging and often associated with various neurological conditions.
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D.
Witiges
Witiges was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths best known for leading the Gothic resistance against the Eastern Roman Empire during the Gothic War in Italy.
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E.
Eales
Eales is an English-language surname most notably associated with Australian rugby union legend John Eales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ psychiatrist ⓘ surname ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| approach | existential analysis of patients’ being-in-the-world ⓘ |
| correspondedWith | Sigmund Freud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Switzerland ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Heidelberg
NERFINISHED
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University of Lausanne NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Zurich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Bellevue Sanatorium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Binswanger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
existential psychology
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phenomenological psychiatry ⓘ psychiatry ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophy of psychiatry
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psychopathology ⓘ |
| givenName | Ludwig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWork |
Einführung in die Probleme der allgemeinen Psychologie
NERFINISHED
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Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins NERFINISHED ⓘ Traum und Existenz NERFINISHED ⓘ Über Ideenflucht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Medard Boss
NERFINISHED
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Rollo May NERFINISHED ⓘ existential psychotherapy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Edmund Husserl
NERFINISHED
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Karl Jaspers NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Heidegger NERFINISHED ⓘ Sigmund Freud ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| movement |
existentialism
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phenomenology ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Ludwig Binswanger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableConcept | Daseinsanalyse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
applying phenomenology to clinical psychiatry
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pioneering existential approaches in psychiatry ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kreuzlingen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Kreuzlingen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | director of Bellevue Sanatorium ⓘ |
| usedIn | Swiss German–speaking regions ⓘ |
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: Binswanger Description of subject: Binswanger is a Swiss surname most notably associated with psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger, a pioneer of existential and phenomenological approaches in psychiatry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.