Herbert Feigl
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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.
All labels observed (1)
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| Herbert Feigl canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T124531 — 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: Herbert Feigl Context triple: [logical positivism, keyFigure, Herbert Feigl]
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Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his influential work on the philosophy of physics, probability, and the foundations of scientific knowledge.
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Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap was a leading 20th-century philosopher and key figure in logical positivism, known for his work on the philosophy of science, logic, and the logical analysis of language.
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Moritz Schlick
Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher best known as the founder and leading figure of the Vienna Circle, which helped establish logical positivism as a major movement in 20th-century analytic philosophy.
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Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose empiricist ideas about science and perception significantly shaped the development of logical positivism and modern philosophy of science.
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Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher and logician known for his work on ontological relativity, the indeterminacy of translation, and the critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction.
- 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: Herbert Feigl Target entity description: 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.
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A.
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach was a prominent 20th-century philosopher of science known for his influential work on the philosophy of physics, probability, and the foundations of scientific knowledge.
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B.
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap was a leading 20th-century philosopher and key figure in logical positivism, known for his work on the philosophy of science, logic, and the logical analysis of language.
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C.
Moritz Schlick
Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher best known as the founder and leading figure of the Vienna Circle, which helped establish logical positivism as a major movement in 20th-century analytic philosophy.
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D.
Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher whose empiricist ideas about science and perception significantly shaped the development of logical positivism and modern philosophy of science.
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E.
Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher and logician known for his work on ontological relativity, the indeterminacy of translation, and the critique of the analytic–synthetic distinction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Herbert Feigl Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.