Cornelius Van Til
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Cornelius Van Til was a 20th-century Reformed theologian and Christian philosopher best known for developing presuppositional apologetics within the Calvinist tradition.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelius Van Til canonical | 17 |
| Van Til | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T469724 — 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: Cornelius Van Til Context triple: [Abraham Kuyper, influenced, Cornelius Van Til]
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A.
Carl F. H. Henry
Carl F. H. Henry was a prominent 20th-century American evangelical theologian and author who helped shape modern evangelical thought and was a founding figure of Christianity Today magazine.
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B.
Francis Schaeffer
Francis Schaeffer was a prominent 20th-century evangelical theologian, philosopher, and apologist known for his influential writings on Christianity and Western culture and for founding the L'Abri community in Switzerland.
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C.
J. Gresham Machen
J. Gresham Machen was an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar, best known for his defense of historic Christian orthodoxy against theological liberalism and for founding Westminster Theological Seminary.
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D.
Robert Gordon Sproul
Robert Gordon Sproul was a prominent American educator who served as the long-time president of the University of California system in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Geerhardus Vos
Geerhardus Vos was a Dutch-American Reformed theologian renowned as a pioneer of biblical theology and a longtime professor at Princeton Theological Seminary.
- 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: Cornelius Van Til Target entity description: Cornelius Van Til was a 20th-century Reformed theologian and Christian philosopher best known for developing presuppositional apologetics within the Calvinist tradition.
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A.
Carl F. H. Henry
Carl F. H. Henry was a prominent 20th-century American evangelical theologian and author who helped shape modern evangelical thought and was a founding figure of Christianity Today magazine.
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B.
Francis Schaeffer
Francis Schaeffer was a prominent 20th-century evangelical theologian, philosopher, and apologist known for his influential writings on Christianity and Western culture and for founding the L'Abri community in Switzerland.
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C.
J. Gresham Machen
J. Gresham Machen was an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar, best known for his defense of historic Christian orthodoxy against theological liberalism and for founding Westminster Theological Seminary.
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D.
Robert Gordon Sproul
Robert Gordon Sproul was a prominent American educator who served as the long-time president of the University of California system in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Geerhardus Vos
Geerhardus Vos was a Dutch-American Reformed theologian renowned as a pioneer of biblical theology and a longtime professor at Princeton Theological Seminary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Cornelius Van Til Description of subject: Cornelius Van Til was a 20th-century Reformed theologian and Christian philosopher best known for developing presuppositional apologetics within the Calvinist tradition.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Van Til
subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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