Otto Binswanger
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Otto Binswanger was a Swiss neurologist best known for describing subcortical vascular dementia, now often referred to as Binswanger's disease.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Otto Binswanger canonical | 2 |
| Robert Binswanger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10947803 — 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: Otto Binswanger Context triple: [Ludwig Binswanger, relative, Otto Binswanger]
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A.
Ludwig Binswanger
Ludwig Binswanger was a Swiss psychiatrist and pioneer of existential and phenomenological approaches to psychotherapy, integrating existential philosophy with clinical practice.
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B.
Johann Feigl
Johann Feigl was an Austrian SS officer and war criminal active during the Nazi era.
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C.
Manfred Bleuler
Manfred Bleuler was a Swiss psychiatrist known for his influential work on schizophrenia and for continuing and expanding the research tradition established by his father, Eugen Bleuler.
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D.
Otto Fenichel
Otto Fenichel was an influential Austrian psychoanalyst known for his Marxist-oriented theoretical work and his comprehensive syntheses of Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
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E.
Ludwig Feigl
Ludwig Feigl was an Austrian-born American philosopher known for his work in logical empiricism and the philosophy of science, particularly as a member of the Vienna Circle and later as a key figure in bringing analytic philosophy to the United States.
- 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: Otto Binswanger Target entity description: Otto Binswanger was a Swiss neurologist best known for describing subcortical vascular dementia, now often referred to as Binswanger's disease.
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A.
Ludwig Binswanger
Ludwig Binswanger was a Swiss psychiatrist and pioneer of existential and phenomenological approaches to psychotherapy, integrating existential philosophy with clinical practice.
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B.
Johann Feigl
Johann Feigl was an Austrian SS officer and war criminal active during the Nazi era.
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C.
Manfred Bleuler
Manfred Bleuler was a Swiss psychiatrist known for his influential work on schizophrenia and for continuing and expanding the research tradition established by his father, Eugen Bleuler.
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D.
Otto Fenichel
Otto Fenichel was an influential Austrian psychoanalyst known for his Marxist-oriented theoretical work and his comprehensive syntheses of Freudian psychoanalytic theory.
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E.
Ludwig Feigl
Ludwig Feigl was an Austrian-born American philosopher known for his work in logical empiricism and the philosophy of science, particularly as a member of the Vienna Circle and later as a key figure in bringing analytic philosophy to the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Swiss physician
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human ⓘ neurologist ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
clinical neurology
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neuropsychiatry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Bern
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University of Heidelberg ⓘ
linked to:
Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
University of Zurich ⓘ |
| employer | University of Jena ⓘ |
| eponymOf | Binswanger's disease ⓘ |
| familyName | Binswanger ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
neurology
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psychiatry ⓘ |
| givenName | Otto ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Binswanger's disease
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description of subcortical vascular dementia ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| memberOf | German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina ⓘ |
| name | Otto Binswanger ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableWork | description of chronic progressive subcortical encephalitis (Binswanger's disease) ⓘ |
| occupation |
neurologist
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university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Switzerland ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of psychiatry at the University of Jena ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Jena
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Zurich ⓘ |
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: Otto Binswanger Description of subject: Otto Binswanger was a Swiss neurologist best known for describing subcortical vascular dementia, now often referred to as Binswanger's disease.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Otto Binswanger