George Berkeley
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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."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Berkeley canonical | 30 |
| Bishop George Berkeley | 2 |
| George Berkeley, 6th Earl of Berkeley | 1 |
| George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T124482 — 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.
Target entity: George Berkeley Context triple: [David Hume, influencedBy, George Berkeley]
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David Hume
David Hume was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and historian known for his influential empiricism, skepticism, and naturalistic approach to human understanding.
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René Descartes
René Descartes was a 17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, often called the "father of modern philosophy" and known for works such as "Meditations on First Philosophy" and the dictum "Cogito, ergo sum."
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John Locke
John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher whose ideas on natural rights, government by consent, and the social contract became foundational to modern liberal political thought.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, and pioneer of the scientific method whose works laid the foundations for modern empirical science.
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Gilbert Ryle
Gilbert Ryle was a 20th-century British philosopher best known for his critique of Cartesian dualism and his influential work in ordinary language philosophy, especially in "The Concept of Mind."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: George Berkeley Target entity description: 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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A.
David Hume
David Hume was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and historian known for his influential empiricism, skepticism, and naturalistic approach to human understanding.
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B.
René Descartes
René Descartes was a 17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, often called the "father of modern philosophy" and known for works such as "Meditations on First Philosophy" and the dictum "Cogito, ergo sum."
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C.
John Locke
John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher whose ideas on natural rights, government by consent, and the social contract became foundational to modern liberal political thought.
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D.
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, and pioneer of the scientific method whose works laid the foundations for modern empirical science.
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E.
Gilbert Ryle
Gilbert Ryle was a 20th-century British philosopher best known for his critique of Cartesian dualism and his influential work in ordinary language philosophy, especially in "The Concept of Mind."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: George Berkeley Description of subject: 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."
Referenced by (34)
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