Judith Butler
E165674
Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist best known for developing the concept of gender performativity and for her influential work in feminist and queer theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Judith Butler canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1444223 — 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: Judith Butler Context triple: [Michel Foucault, influenced, Judith Butler]
-
A.
Joan W. Scott
Joan W. Scott is an influential American historian and feminist theorist renowned for her pioneering work on gender as a category of historical analysis.
-
B.
Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib is a prominent contemporary political philosopher known for her work on deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism, and feminist theory.
-
C.
Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser is an American critical theorist and feminist philosopher known for her influential work on social justice, redistribution and recognition, and critiques of contemporary capitalism and democracy.
-
D.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist, feminist critic, and postcolonial scholar best known for her influential essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and her work on deconstruction and global feminism.
-
E.
Rosemary Leith
Rosemary Leith is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and internet governance leader who co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation and serves on various boards related to technology and public policy.
- 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: Judith Butler Target entity description: Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist best known for developing the concept of gender performativity and for her influential work in feminist and queer theory.
-
A.
Joan W. Scott
Joan W. Scott is an influential American historian and feminist theorist renowned for her pioneering work on gender as a category of historical analysis.
-
B.
Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib is a prominent contemporary political philosopher known for her work on deliberative democracy, cosmopolitanism, and feminist theory.
-
C.
Nancy Fraser
Nancy Fraser is an American critical theorist and feminist philosopher known for her influential work on social justice, redistribution and recognition, and critiques of contemporary capitalism and democracy.
-
D.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist, feminist critic, and postcolonial scholar best known for her influential essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and her work on deconstruction and global feminism.
-
E.
Rosemary Leith
Rosemary Leith is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and internet governance leader who co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation and serves on various boards related to technology and public policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
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: Judith Butler Description of subject: Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist best known for developing the concept of gender performativity and for her influential work in feminist and queer theory.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Paul-Michel Foucault