Charlie
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Charlie is the given name of the British philosopher and Cambridge academic C. D. Broad.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charlie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4781115 — 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: Charlie Context triple: [C. D. Broad, givenName, Charlie]
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A.
Charlie
Charlie was the third nuclear test in the U.S. Operation Crossroads series, planned as an underwater detonation to study the effects of nuclear weapons on naval vessels.
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B.
Charlie
Charlie is Dory’s loving but forgetful father in the animated film "Finding Dory," known for his patience, optimism, and inventive ways of helping her cope with memory loss.
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C.
Charlie
Charlie is the fictional Boston subway rider in the folk song "Charlie on the MTA," known for being unable to get off the train because he lacks the fare to exit.
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D.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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E.
Carl
Carl is the given name of the influential American microbiologist Carl Woese, known for defining the Archaea domain of life.
- 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: Charlie Target entity description: Charlie is the given name of the British philosopher and Cambridge academic C. D. Broad.
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A.
Charlie
Charlie was the third nuclear test in the U.S. Operation Crossroads series, planned as an underwater detonation to study the effects of nuclear weapons on naval vessels.
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B.
Charlie
Charlie is the fictional Boston subway rider in the folk song "Charlie on the MTA," known for being unable to get off the train because he lacks the fare to exit.
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C.
Charlie
Charlie is Dory’s loving but forgetful father in the animated film "Finding Dory," known for his patience, optimism, and inventive ways of helping her cope with memory loss.
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D.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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E.
Carl
Carl is the given name of the influential American microbiologist Carl Woese, known for defining the Archaea domain of life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1887-12-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1971-03-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Trinity College, Cambridge
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Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
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| employer |
Trinity College, Cambridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cambridge University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
|
| fieldOfWork |
epistemology
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ethics ⓘ history of philosophy ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ philosophy ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Charlie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Broad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Professor ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century British philosophy
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analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bertrand Russell
NERFINISHED
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G. E. Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Determinism, Indeterminism, and Libertarianism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ Five Types of Ethical Theory NERFINISHED ⓘ Scientific Thought NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mind and Its Place in Nature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
philosopher
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university teacher ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Harlesden
NERFINISHED
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| placeOfDeath | Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy
NERFINISHED
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lecturer at the University of Cambridge ⓘ |
| studied |
logic
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moral philosophy ⓘ |
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: Charlie Description of subject: Charlie is the given name of the British philosopher and Cambridge academic C. D. Broad.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Charlie Brent