Arthur Prior
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Arthur Prior was a 20th-century logician and philosopher best known as the founder of tense logic and a major contributor to modal and philosophical logic.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4129385 — 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: Arthur Prior Context triple: [Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, hasNotableHolder, Arthur Prior]
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Michael Dummett
Michael Dummett was a British philosopher renowned for his work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, and for his influential interpretations of analytic philosophy.
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F. P. Ramsey
F. P. Ramsey was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist known for his influential work in logic, the foundations of mathematics, decision theory, and the philosophy of language.
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Graham Priest
Graham Priest is a prominent contemporary philosopher and logician best known for his work on non-classical logics, especially dialetheism, and his influential analyses of logical paradoxes.
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Roderick Chisholm
Roderick Chisholm was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the theory of perception.
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C. D. Broad
C. D. Broad was a 20th-century British philosopher known for his influential work in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, particularly on topics such as induction, perception, and psychical research.
- 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: Arthur Prior Target entity description: Arthur Prior was a 20th-century logician and philosopher best known as the founder of tense logic and a major contributor to modal and philosophical logic.
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A.
Michael Dummett
Michael Dummett was a British philosopher renowned for his work in the philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, and for his influential interpretations of analytic philosophy.
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B.
F. P. Ramsey
F. P. Ramsey was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist known for his influential work in logic, the foundations of mathematics, decision theory, and the philosophy of language.
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C.
Graham Priest
Graham Priest is a prominent contemporary philosopher and logician best known for his work on non-classical logics, especially dialetheism, and his influential analyses of logical paradoxes.
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D.
Roderick Chisholm
Roderick Chisholm was a 20th-century American analytic philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, metaphysics, and the theory of perception.
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E.
C. D. Broad
C. D. Broad was a 20th-century British philosopher known for his influential work in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, particularly on topics such as induction, perception, and psychical research.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Arthur Prior Description of subject: Arthur Prior was a 20th-century logician and philosopher best known as the founder of tense logic and a major contributor to modal and philosophical logic.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.