Samuel Clarke
E166909
Samuel Clarke was an 18th-century English philosopher and Anglican clergyman known for his influential works on natural religion, metaphysics, and Newtonian theology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Clarke canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1469898 — 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: Samuel Clarke Context triple: [Richard Price, influencedBy, Samuel Clarke]
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Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was a prominent 19th-century British publisher and bookseller known for issuing major literary works by authors such as Charles Dickens and Herman Melville.
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Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was an 18th-century English designer and illustrator closely associated with Horace Walpole, known for helping develop the early Gothic Revival style seen at Strawberry Hill.
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Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff was an 18th-century German rationalist philosopher whose systematic and rigorous approach to metaphysics and logic significantly shaped the development of Enlightenment thought and influenced Immanuel Kant.
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George Berkeley
George Berkeley was an 18th-century Irish philosopher best known for his idealist doctrine that reality consists only of minds and their ideas, encapsulated in the phrase "to be is to be perceived."
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Nicolas Malebranche
Nicolas Malebranche was a 17th-century French Oratorian priest and philosopher best known for synthesizing Cartesianism with Augustinian theology, developing the doctrine of occasionalism and a distinctive theory of seeing all things in God.
- 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: Samuel Clarke Target entity description: Samuel Clarke was an 18th-century English philosopher and Anglican clergyman known for his influential works on natural religion, metaphysics, and Newtonian theology.
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A.
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was a prominent 19th-century British publisher and bookseller known for issuing major literary works by authors such as Charles Dickens and Herman Melville.
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B.
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was an 18th-century English designer and illustrator closely associated with Horace Walpole, known for helping develop the early Gothic Revival style seen at Strawberry Hill.
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C.
Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff was an 18th-century German rationalist philosopher whose systematic and rigorous approach to metaphysics and logic significantly shaped the development of Enlightenment thought and influenced Immanuel Kant.
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D.
George Berkeley
George Berkeley was an 18th-century Irish philosopher best known for his idealist doctrine that reality consists only of minds and their ideas, encapsulated in the phrase "to be is to be perceived."
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E.
Nicolas Malebranche
Nicolas Malebranche was a 17th-century French Oratorian priest and philosopher best known for synthesizing Cartesianism with Augustinian theology, developing the doctrine of occasionalism and a distinctive theory of seeing all things in God.
- 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: Samuel Clarke Description of subject: Samuel Clarke was an 18th-century English philosopher and Anglican clergyman known for his influential works on natural religion, metaphysics, and Newtonian theology.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.