Stanley Cavell
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Stanley Cavell was an American philosopher known for his work in ordinary language philosophy, skepticism, aesthetics, and film, particularly through his distinctive readings of Wittgenstein and Emerson.
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| Stanley Cavell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2685995 — 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: Stanley Cavell Context triple: [J. L. Austin, influenced, Stanley Cavell]
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Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty was an American philosopher known for his neo-pragmatism, critique of traditional analytic philosophy, and influential works such as "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature."
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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher known for his influential work in moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, including the famous essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?".
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Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was a prominent 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his critiques of utilitarianism and moral theory, his emphasis on the complexity of ethical life, and his influential work on integrity, moral luck, and the history of philosophy.
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D.
Donald Davidson
Donald Davidson was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, mind, and action, particularly his theories of radical interpretation and anomalous monism.
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E.
Sidney Hook
Sidney Hook was an American philosopher and public intellectual known for his work in pragmatism, social and political philosophy, and his evolution from Marxist sympathizer to prominent anti-communist thinker.
- 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: Stanley Cavell Target entity description: Stanley Cavell was an American philosopher known for his work in ordinary language philosophy, skepticism, aesthetics, and film, particularly through his distinctive readings of Wittgenstein and Emerson.
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A.
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty was an American philosopher known for his neo-pragmatism, critique of traditional analytic philosophy, and influential works such as "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature."
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B.
Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher known for his influential work in moral and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, and epistemology, including the famous essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?".
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C.
Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams was a prominent 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his critiques of utilitarianism and moral theory, his emphasis on the complexity of ethical life, and his influential work on integrity, moral luck, and the history of philosophy.
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D.
Donald Davidson
Donald Davidson was a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, mind, and action, particularly his theories of radical interpretation and anomalous monism.
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E.
Sidney Hook
Sidney Hook was an American philosopher and public intellectual known for his work in pragmatism, social and political philosophy, and his evolution from Marxist sympathizer to prominent anti-communist thinker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Stanley Cavell Description of subject: Stanley Cavell was an American philosopher known for his work in ordinary language philosophy, skepticism, aesthetics, and film, particularly through his distinctive readings of Wittgenstein and Emerson.
Referenced by (2)
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