Michael C. Rea
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Michael C. Rea is an American analytic philosopher known for his work in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and especially his defense and development of Reformed epistemology.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8332680 — 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: Michael C. Rea Context triple: [Reformed epistemology, associatedWith, Michael C. Rea]
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A.
Richard Fantl
Richard Fantl was a film editor known for his work on mid-20th-century American movies, including the 1955 aviation drama "Top Gun."
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B.
Matt Nover
Matt Nover is a former American basketball player best known for his role as a fictional college star in the 1994 sports film "Blue Chips."
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C.
Galen Strawson
Galen Strawson is a contemporary British philosopher known for his influential work in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the critique of free will and moral responsibility.
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Robert Audi
Robert Audi is a contemporary American philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, ethics, and the theory of action.
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E.
Peter van Inwagen
Peter van Inwagen is a prominent contemporary American analytic philosopher best known for his work on metaphysics, free will, and the philosophy of religion.
- 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: Michael C. Rea Target entity description: Michael C. Rea is an American analytic philosopher known for his work in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and especially his defense and development of Reformed epistemology.
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A.
Richard Fantl
Richard Fantl was a film editor known for his work on mid-20th-century American movies, including the 1955 aviation drama "Top Gun."
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B.
Matt Nover
Matt Nover is a former American basketball player best known for his role as a fictional college star in the 1994 sports film "Blue Chips."
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C.
Galen Strawson
Galen Strawson is a contemporary British philosopher known for his influential work in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and the critique of free will and moral responsibility.
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D.
Robert Audi
Robert Audi is a contemporary American philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, ethics, and the theory of action.
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E.
Peter van Inwagen
Peter van Inwagen is a prominent contemporary American analytic philosopher best known for his work on metaphysics, free will, and the philosophy of religion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Michael C. Rea Description of subject: Michael C. Rea is an American analytic philosopher known for his work in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and especially his defense and development of Reformed epistemology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.