Carl Schmitt
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Carl Schmitt was a 20th-century German legal theorist and political philosopher known for his critiques of liberal democracy, his concept of the "state of exception," and his controversial association with the Nazi regime.
All labels observed (1)
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| Carl Schmitt canonical | 32 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1268297 — 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: Carl Schmitt Context triple: [Thomas Hobbes, influenced, Carl Schmitt]
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Rainer Forst
Rainer Forst is a German political philosopher known for his work on theories of justice, tolerance, and critical theory, particularly within the Frankfurt School tradition.
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Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and existential philosopher known for his work on psychopathology, the philosophy of existence, and the concept of the "Axial Age."
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C.
Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher best known for his work on symbolic forms and the philosophy of culture.
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D.
Hans-Georg von Friedeburg
Hans-Georg von Friedeburg was a German admiral who served as the last commander-in-chief of the Kriegsmarine during World War II and participated in Germany’s surrender negotiations in 1945.
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E.
Konstantin von Neurath
Konstantin von Neurath was a German diplomat and statesman who served as an early foreign minister under Adolf Hitler and was later convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials.
- 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: Carl Schmitt Target entity description: Carl Schmitt was a 20th-century German legal theorist and political philosopher known for his critiques of liberal democracy, his concept of the "state of exception," and his controversial association with the Nazi regime.
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A.
Rainer Forst
Rainer Forst is a German political philosopher known for his work on theories of justice, tolerance, and critical theory, particularly within the Frankfurt School tradition.
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B.
Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers was a German-Swiss psychiatrist and existential philosopher known for his work on psychopathology, the philosophy of existence, and the concept of the "Axial Age."
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C.
Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer was a German Neo-Kantian philosopher best known for his work on symbolic forms and the philosophy of culture.
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D.
Hans-Georg von Friedeburg
Hans-Georg von Friedeburg was a German admiral who served as the last commander-in-chief of the Kriegsmarine during World War II and participated in Germany’s surrender negotiations in 1945.
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E.
Konstantin von Neurath
Konstantin von Neurath was a German diplomat and statesman who served as an early foreign minister under Adolf Hitler and was later convicted as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Carl Schmitt Description of subject: Carl Schmitt was a 20th-century German legal theorist and political philosopher known for his critiques of liberal democracy, his concept of the "state of exception," and his controversial association with the Nazi regime.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.