Finnis
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Finnis is a surname most notably associated with John Finnis, an influential legal philosopher known for his work on natural law theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Finnis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9914394 — 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: Finnis Context triple: [John Finnis, familyName, Finnis]
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Fergus
Fergus is a historic small town in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its Scottish heritage and annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games.
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B.
Fergus
Fergus is a fictional character from the game "Wild Target," likely serving as a notable figure within its story or gameplay.
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Fergus
Fergus is the conflicted Irish Republican Army volunteer who serves as the central protagonist in the 1992 psychological thriller film "The Crying Game."
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Fergus
Fergus is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin, traditionally meaning "man of force" or "strong man."
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E.
Aegan
Aegan is a 2008 Tamil action-comedy film starring Ajith Kumar, loosely inspired by the Bollywood movie Main Hoon Na.
- 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: Finnis Target entity description: Finnis is a surname most notably associated with John Finnis, an influential legal philosopher known for his work on natural law theory.
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A.
Fergus
Fergus is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin, traditionally meaning "man of force" or "strong man."
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B.
Fergus
Fergus is a fictional character from the game "Wild Target," likely serving as a notable figure within its story or gameplay.
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C.
Fergus
Fergus is the conflicted Irish Republican Army volunteer who serves as the central protagonist in the 1992 psychological thriller film "The Crying Game."
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D.
Fergus
Fergus is a historic small town in southwestern Ontario, Canada, known for its Scottish heritage and annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games.
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E.
Aegan
Aegan is a 2008 Tamil action-comedy film starring Ajith Kumar, loosely inspired by the Bollywood movie Main Hoon Na.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic philosopher
ⓘ
legal philosopher ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Australia
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Adelaide
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University of Oxford ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
legal philosophy
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natural law theory ⓘ philosophy of law ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary natural law theorists ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
ⓘ
Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
linked to:
St. Thomas Aquinas
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| knownFor |
defence of natural law
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theory of basic human goods ⓘ work on practical reasonableness ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Natural Law and Natural Rights ⓘ |
| occupation | professor ⓘ |
| taughtAt |
University of Notre Dame
ⓘ
University of Oxford ⓘ |
| theoreticalApproach | new natural law theory ⓘ |
| usedBy | John Finnis ⓘ |
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: Finnis Description of subject: Finnis is a surname most notably associated with John Finnis, an influential legal philosopher known for his work on natural law theory.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John