Dummett
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Dummett is a surname most notably associated with British philosopher and logician Michael Dummett and his family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dummett canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11366163 — 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: Dummett Context triple: [Ann Dummett, familyName, Dummett]
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A.
Hamblin
Hamblin is a surname and given name that serves as a variant form of Hamlin.
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B.
Thagard
Thagard is the surname of Norman E. Thagard, an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
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C.
Russell
Russell is the middle name of Rensselaer Russell Nelson, an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge in the 19th century.
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D.
Russell
Russell is a common English surname most famously associated with legendary Boston Celtics basketball player and civil rights activist Bill Russell.
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E.
Russell
Russell is the enthusiastic young Wilderness Explorer who befriends elderly widower Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's animated film "Up."
- 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: Dummett Target entity description: Dummett is a surname most notably associated with British philosopher and logician Michael Dummett and his family.
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A.
Hamblin
Hamblin is a surname and given name that serves as a variant form of Hamlin.
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B.
Thagard
Thagard is the surname of Norman E. Thagard, an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
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C.
Russell
Russell is the middle name of Rensselaer Russell Nelson, an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge in the 19th century.
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D.
Russell
Russell is a common English surname most famously associated with legendary Boston Celtics basketball player and civil rights activist Bill Russell.
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E.
Russell
Russell is the enthusiastic young Wilderness Explorer who befriends elderly widower Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's animated film "Up."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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activist ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ logician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer |
New College, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName |
Dummett
NERFINISHED
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Dummett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
history of analytic philosophy
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immigration policy ⓘ logic ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ philosophy of mathematics ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ race relations ⓘ theory of meaning ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Adrian Dummett
NERFINISHED
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Alfred Dummett NERFINISHED ⓘ Ann Dummett NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Dummett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to intuitionistic logic
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defense of anti-realism ⓘ historical research on tarot cards ⓘ historical work on analytic philosophy ⓘ theory of meaning based on verificationism ⓘ work on Gottlob Frege ⓘ work on voting theory ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | British Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Frege: Philosophy of Language
NERFINISHED
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Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics NERFINISHED ⓘ Grammar and Style for Examination Candidates and Others NERFINISHED ⓘ Origins of Analytical Philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ Principles of Electoral Reform NERFINISHED ⓘ The Game of Tarot NERFINISHED ⓘ The Interpretation of Frege’s Philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Logical Basis of Metaphysics NERFINISHED ⓘ Truth and Other Enigmas NERFINISHED ⓘ Voting Procedures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Wykeham Professor of Logic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ann Dummett
NERFINISHED
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Michael Dummett 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: Dummett Description of subject: Dummett is a surname most notably associated with British philosopher and logician Michael Dummett and his family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.