Ludwig Binswanger
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Swiss psychiatrist
academic
existential psychologist
person
phenomenological psychologist
psychiatrist
psychotherapist
Ludwig Binswanger was a Swiss psychiatrist and pioneer of existential and phenomenological approaches to psychotherapy, integrating existential philosophy with clinical practice.
All labels observed (1)
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| Ludwig Binswanger canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2335325 — 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: Ludwig Binswanger Context triple: [existential psychotherapy, associatedWith, Ludwig Binswanger]
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Karl Bühler
Karl Bühler was an influential Austrian psychologist and linguist known for his work on language theory, Gestalt psychology, and the functional model of language.
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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.
Kurt Goldstein
Kurt Goldstein was a German neurologist and psychiatrist known for his holistic approach to brain function and for pioneering ideas that helped shape humanistic psychology.
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D.
Eduard Spranger
Eduard Spranger was a German philosopher and psychologist known for his influential work in the philosophy of education and the psychology of personality and values.
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E.
Herbert Feigl
Herbert Feigl was an Austrian-American philosopher of science and mind associated with the Vienna Circle, known for advancing logical empiricism and influential theories of scientific explanation and physicalism.
- 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: Ludwig Binswanger Target entity description: Ludwig Binswanger was a Swiss psychiatrist and pioneer of existential and phenomenological approaches to psychotherapy, integrating existential philosophy with clinical practice.
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A.
Karl Bühler
Karl Bühler was an influential Austrian psychologist and linguist known for his work on language theory, Gestalt psychology, and the functional model of language.
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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.
Kurt Goldstein
Kurt Goldstein was a German neurologist and psychiatrist known for his holistic approach to brain function and for pioneering ideas that helped shape humanistic psychology.
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D.
Eduard Spranger
Eduard Spranger was a German philosopher and psychologist known for his influential work in the philosophy of education and the psychology of personality and values.
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E.
Herbert Feigl
Herbert Feigl was an Austrian-American philosopher of science and mind associated with the Vienna Circle, known for advancing logical empiricism and influential theories of scientific explanation and physicalism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Ludwig Binswanger Description of subject: Ludwig Binswanger was a Swiss psychiatrist and pioneer of existential and phenomenological approaches to psychotherapy, integrating existential philosophy with clinical practice.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.