Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher and public intellectual known for his influential work on ethics, cosmopolitanism, identity, and multiculturalism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kwame Anthony Appiah canonical | 6 |
| K. Anthony Appiah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5114590 — 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: Kwame Anthony Appiah Context triple: [Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, hasWinner, Kwame Anthony Appiah]
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A.
Cornel West
Cornel West is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, and public intellectual known for his work on race, democracy, and justice.
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B.
Michael Bonvillain
Michael Bonvillain is an American cinematographer known for his work on films and television series, including genre projects like From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter.
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C.
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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D.
G. A. Cohen
G. A. Cohen was a Canadian-born political philosopher known for his rigorous analytical approach to Marxism and influential work on egalitarian justice.
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E.
Jonathan Wolff
Jonathan Wolff is an American musician best known for composing and performing the iconic theme music and scores for the television sitcom Seinfeld.
- 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: Kwame Anthony Appiah Target entity description: Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher and public intellectual known for his influential work on ethics, cosmopolitanism, identity, and multiculturalism.
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A.
Cornel West
Cornel West is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, and public intellectual known for his work on race, democracy, and justice.
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B.
Michael Bonvillain
Michael Bonvillain is an American cinematographer known for his work on films and television series, including genre projects like From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter.
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C.
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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D.
G. A. Cohen
G. A. Cohen was a Canadian-born political philosopher known for his rigorous analytical approach to Marxism and influential work on egalitarian justice.
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E.
Jonathan Wolff
Jonathan Wolff is an American musician best known for composing and performing the iconic theme music and scores for the television sitcom Seinfeld.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (71)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Kwame Anthony Appiah Description of subject: Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher and public intellectual known for his influential work on ethics, cosmopolitanism, identity, and multiculturalism.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.