Sellars
E621034
Sellars is the surname of Wilfrid Sellars, a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his work in epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sellars canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6830396 — 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: Sellars Context triple: [Wilfrid Sellars, familyName, Sellars]
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A.
Segall
Segall is a surname most notably associated with American garage rock and psychedelic musician Ty Segall.
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B.
Talcott
Talcott is a given name most notably associated with American sociologist Talcott Parsons, a key figure in 20th-century social theory.
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C.
Thagard
Thagard is the surname of Norman E. Thagard, an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
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D.
Olson
Olson is a surname most prominently associated in entertainment with American actress and comedian Kaitlin Olson.
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E.
Sewall
Sewall is a surname most notably associated with Samuel Sewall, a colonial American judge remembered for his role in and later condemnation of the Salem witch trials.
- 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: Sellars Target entity description: Sellars is the surname of Wilfrid Sellars, a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his work in epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
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A.
Segall
Segall is a surname most notably associated with American garage rock and psychedelic musician Ty Segall.
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B.
Talcott
Talcott is a given name most notably associated with American sociologist Talcott Parsons, a key figure in 20th-century social theory.
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C.
Thagard
Thagard is the surname of Norman E. Thagard, an American physician, former NASA astronaut, and the first American to fly on a Russian spacecraft.
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D.
Olson
Olson is a surname most prominently associated in entertainment with American actress and comedian Kaitlin Olson.
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E.
Sewall
Sewall is a surname most notably associated with Samuel Sewall, a colonial American judge remembered for his role in and later condemnation of the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American philosopher
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human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Minnesota
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University of Pittsburgh ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
epistemology
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metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Wilfrid Sellars ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Sellars ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Sellar
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Sellers ⓘ |
| influenced |
John McDowell
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Paul Churchland ⓘ Robert Brandom ⓘ Ruth Millikan ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
G. W. F. Hegel
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Immanuel Kant ⓘ logical empiricism ⓘ |
| movement | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
myth of the given
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scientific image vs. manifest image ⓘ |
| notableWork | Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind ⓘ |
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: Sellars Description of subject: Sellars is the surname of Wilfrid Sellars, a prominent 20th-century American philosopher known for his work in epistemology and the philosophy of mind.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.