Paul de Man
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Paul de Man was a Belgian-born literary critic and theorist, best known as a leading figure in deconstruction and for his influential work on rhetoric and reading in literary texts.
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| Paul de Man canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1348205 — 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: Paul de Man Context triple: [Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, academicAdvisor, Paul de Man]
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Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist known for his influential writings on aesthetics, history, and modernity, including the seminal essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
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Douglas Kellner
Douglas Kellner is an American critical theorist and cultural studies scholar known for his analyses of media, technology, and contemporary society.
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C.
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze was a 20th-century French philosopher known for his influential work on metaphysics, difference, and desire, and for his collaborations with Félix Guattari on concepts such as rhizomes and deterritorialization.
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D.
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
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E.
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential analyses of power, knowledge, and institutions in works such as "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality."
- 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: Paul de Man Target entity description: Paul de Man was a Belgian-born literary critic and theorist, best known as a leading figure in deconstruction and for his influential work on rhetoric and reading in literary texts.
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A.
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist known for his influential writings on aesthetics, history, and modernity, including the seminal essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."
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B.
Douglas Kellner
Douglas Kellner is an American critical theorist and cultural studies scholar known for his analyses of media, technology, and contemporary society.
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C.
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze was a 20th-century French philosopher known for his influential work on metaphysics, difference, and desire, and for his collaborations with Félix Guattari on concepts such as rhizomes and deterritorialization.
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D.
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom was an influential American literary critic and Yale professor best known for his theories on the Western canon and the "anxiety of influence" among writers.
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E.
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential analyses of power, knowledge, and institutions in works such as "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Paul de Man Description of subject: Paul de Man was a Belgian-born literary critic and theorist, best known as a leading figure in deconstruction and for his influential work on rhetoric and reading in literary texts.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.