Philippa Foot
E293651
Philippa Foot was a British analytic philosopher best known for her work in ethics, particularly on virtue ethics and the famous "trolley problem."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philippa Foot canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2653330 — 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: Philippa Foot Context triple: [Elizabeth Anscombe, influenced, Philippa Foot]
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Onora O’Neill
Onora O’Neill is a prominent British philosopher and crossbench peer known for her influential work in ethics, political philosophy, and bioethics, particularly on Kantian moral theory and trust.
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Elizabeth Anscombe
Elizabeth Anscombe was a prominent 20th-century analytic philosopher known for her influential work in ethics, philosophy of action, and her role in editing and interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writings.
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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.
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher renowned for her work in ethics, political philosophy, and the capabilities approach to human development.
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E.
Crispin Wright
Crispin Wright is a prominent contemporary British philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, particularly on realism, anti-realism, and the nature of truth.
- 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: Philippa Foot Target entity description: Philippa Foot was a British analytic philosopher best known for her work in ethics, particularly on virtue ethics and the famous "trolley problem."
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A.
Onora O’Neill
Onora O’Neill is a prominent British philosopher and crossbench peer known for her influential work in ethics, political philosophy, and bioethics, particularly on Kantian moral theory and trust.
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B.
Elizabeth Anscombe
Elizabeth Anscombe was a prominent 20th-century analytic philosopher known for her influential work in ethics, philosophy of action, and her role in editing and interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writings.
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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.
Martha Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher renowned for her work in ethics, political philosophy, and the capabilities approach to human development.
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E.
Crispin Wright
Crispin Wright is a prominent contemporary British philosopher best known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, particularly on realism, anti-realism, and the nature of truth.
- 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: Philippa Foot Description of subject: Philippa Foot was a British analytic philosopher best known for her work in ethics, particularly on virtue ethics and the famous "trolley problem."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Elizabeth Anscombe