William James
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William James was an American philosopher and psychologist, a leading figure in pragmatism and functional psychology, and one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William James canonical | 72 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T227780 — 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: William James Context triple: [Ralph Waldo Emerson, influenced, William James]
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Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt was a German physician, physiologist, and philosopher widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology and the first psychological laboratory.
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John Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer known as a leading figure in pragmatism and progressive education.
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C.
G. E. Moore
G. E. Moore was a British analytic philosopher known for his influential work in ethics, common-sense realism, and the philosophy of language at the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
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.
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E.
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and process philosophy, including co-authoring the landmark work *Principia Mathematica* with Bertrand Russell.
- 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: William James Target entity description: William James was an American philosopher and psychologist, a leading figure in pragmatism and functional psychology, and one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt was a German physician, physiologist, and philosopher widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology and the first psychological laboratory.
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B.
John Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer known as a leading figure in pragmatism and progressive education.
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C.
G. E. Moore
G. E. Moore was a British analytic philosopher known for his influential work in ethics, common-sense realism, and the philosophy of language at the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
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.
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E.
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and process philosophy, including co-authoring the landmark work *Principia Mathematica* with Bertrand Russell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
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: William James Description of subject: William James was an American philosopher and psychologist, a leading figure in pragmatism and functional psychology, and one of the most influential thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Principles of Psychology (Spencer)
subject surface form:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
subject surface form:
Pragmatism
subject surface form:
Pragmatism