Novalis
E41891
Novalis was the pen name of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a pioneering early German Romantic poet, novelist, and philosopher known for his mystical and lyrical works such as "Hymns to the Night."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Novalis canonical | 17 |
| Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg | 2 |
| Friedrich von Hardenberg | 1 |
| Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) | 1 |
| von Hardenberg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T321378 — 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.
Target entity: Novalis Context triple: [Romanticism, associatedWith, Novalis]
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling was a German Idealist philosopher known for his work on nature, freedom, and the development of a dynamic, evolving conception of reality.
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Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder was an 18th-century German philosopher, theologian, and literary critic whose ideas on language, culture, and history helped shape Romanticism and modern hermeneutics.
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C.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher and key figure of German Idealism, known for developing a radical form of transcendental philosophy that built on and transformed Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy.
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D.
Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine was a 19th-century German poet, essayist, and literary critic renowned for his lyrical poetry and sharp political and social commentary.
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E.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a towering German writer, poet, and polymath of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for works like "Faust" and for shaping European Romanticism and modern literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Novalis Target entity description: Novalis was the pen name of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a pioneering early German Romantic poet, novelist, and philosopher known for his mystical and lyrical works such as "Hymns to the Night."
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A.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling was a German Idealist philosopher known for his work on nature, freedom, and the development of a dynamic, evolving conception of reality.
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B.
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder was an 18th-century German philosopher, theologian, and literary critic whose ideas on language, culture, and history helped shape Romanticism and modern hermeneutics.
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C.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher and key figure of German Idealism, known for developing a radical form of transcendental philosophy that built on and transformed Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy.
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D.
Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine was a 19th-century German poet, essayist, and literary critic renowned for his lyrical poetry and sharp political and social commentary.
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E.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a towering German writer, poet, and polymath of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for works like "Faust" and for shaping European Romanticism and modern literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German Romantic writer
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novelist ⓘ person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| birthName |
Novalis
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
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| causeOfDeath | tuberculosis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Electorate of Saxony ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1772-05-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1801-03-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Jena
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University of Leipzig ⓘ University of Wittenberg ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName |
Novalis
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
von Hardenberg
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| fieldOfWork |
mining
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philosophy ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| genre |
lyric poetry
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philosophical novel ⓘ prose poetry ⓘ |
| givenName |
Friedrich
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Georg ⓘ |
| influenced |
Romanticism
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surface form:
German Romanticism
modernist literature ⓘ symbolist poets ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian mysticism
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Immanuel Kant ⓘ Jakob Böhme ⓘ Johann Gottlieb Fichte ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early Romantic philosophy of poetry
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mystical and lyrical poetry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| movement |
Romanticism
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surface form:
Early Romanticism
Romanticism ⓘ
surface form:
German Romanticism
|
| nobleTitle | Freiherr ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Die Lehrlinge zu Sais
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Heinrich von Ofterdingen ⓘ Hymns to the Night ⓘ
surface form:
Hymnen an die Nacht
Hymns to the Night ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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mining engineer ⓘ novelist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| penName | Novalis self-link ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Harz
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surface form:
Harz region
Oberwiederstedt ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Weißenfels ⓘ |
| religion | Protestantism ⓘ |
| romanticPartner | Sophie von Kühn ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Novalis Description of subject: Novalis was the pen name of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a pioneering early German Romantic poet, novelist, and philosopher known for his mystical and lyrical works such as "Hymns to the Night."
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.