Richard Rorty
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Richard Rorty was an American philosopher known for his neo-pragmatism, critique of traditional analytic philosophy, and influential works such as "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Rorty canonical | 10 |
| Rorty | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T814493 — 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: Richard Rorty Context triple: [John Dewey, influenced, Richard Rorty]
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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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B.
Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in philosophy of mind, language, and science, including the development of functionalism and semantic externalism.
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C.
Donald Davidson
Donald Davidson was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, mind, and action, particularly his theories of radical interpretation and anomalous monism.
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D.
Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher known for his influential work in moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, including the famous essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?".
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E.
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and social theorist known for his work on communicative rationality, the public sphere, and deliberative democracy.
- 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: Richard Rorty Target entity description: Richard Rorty was an American philosopher known for his neo-pragmatism, critique of traditional analytic philosophy, and influential works such as "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature."
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A.
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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B.
Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in philosophy of mind, language, and science, including the development of functionalism and semantic externalism.
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C.
Donald Davidson
Donald Davidson was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, mind, and action, particularly his theories of radical interpretation and anomalous monism.
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D.
Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher known for his influential work in moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, including the famous essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?".
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E.
Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas is a German philosopher and social theorist known for his work on communicative rationality, the public sphere, and deliberative democracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Richard Rorty Description of subject: Richard Rorty was an American philosopher known for his neo-pragmatism, critique of traditional analytic philosophy, and influential works such as "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rorty
subject surface form:
Pragmatism
subject surface form:
The Linguistic Turn
subject surface form:
The Linguistic Turn