Patočka
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Patočka is a Czech surname most notably borne by the influential 20th-century philosopher Jan Patočka.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patočka canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12880266 — 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: Patočka Context triple: [Jan Patočka, familyName, Patočka]
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A.
Havlíček
Havlíček is a Czech surname most famously associated with basketball Hall of Famer John Havlicek and several notable Czech cultural and public figures.
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B.
Ondrík
Ondrík is a Slovak diminutive form of the male given name Ondrej, used as an affectionate or familiar variant.
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C.
Slavoj Trebišov
Slavoj Trebišov is a Slovak football club based in the town of Trebišov that competes in the country’s league system.
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D.
Slavoj
Slavoj is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, best known as the first name of Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek.
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E.
Havel
The Havel is a river in northeastern Germany that flows through Berlin and Brandenburg before joining the Elbe.
- 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: Patočka Target entity description: Patočka is a Czech surname most notably borne by the influential 20th-century philosopher Jan Patočka.
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A.
Havlíček
Havlíček is a Czech surname most famously associated with basketball Hall of Famer John Havlicek and several notable Czech cultural and public figures.
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B.
Ondrík
Ondrík is a Slovak diminutive form of the male given name Ondrej, used as an affectionate or familiar variant.
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C.
Slavoj Trebišov
Slavoj Trebišov is a Slovak football club based in the town of Trebišov that competes in the country’s league system.
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D.
Slavoj
Slavoj is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, best known as the first name of Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek.
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E.
Havel
The Havel is a river in northeastern Germany that flows through Berlin and Brandenburg before joining the Elbe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
20th-century philosopher
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Czech-language surname ⓘ person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
Austria-Hungary
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linked to:
Austro-Hungarian Empire
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Czech ⓘ |
| familyName | Patočka ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
phenomenology
ⓘ
philosophy of history ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| givenName | Jan ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Jan Patočka ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Edmund Husserl
ⓘ
Martin Heidegger ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Czech ⓘ |
| movement | phenomenology ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Czech ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dissident activities in communist Czechoslovakia
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influential contributions to phenomenology ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Body, Community, Language, World
ⓘ
Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History ⓘ Plato and Europe ⓘ |
| occupation |
university professor
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Turnov ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Prague ⓘ |
| signatoryOf |
Charter 77
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linked to:
Charter 77 movement
|
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: Patočka Description of subject: Patočka is a Czech surname most notably borne by the influential 20th-century philosopher Jan Patočka.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Patočka