Nicomachus of Gerasa
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Nicomachus of Gerasa was an ancient Greek mathematician and Neopythagorean philosopher best known for his influential works on number theory and arithmetic, especially the "Introduction to Arithmetic."
All labels observed (1)
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| Nicomachus of Gerasa canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18090792 — 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: Nicomachus of Gerasa Context triple: [De institutione arithmetica, influencedBy, Nicomachus of Gerasa]
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Nicomachus
Nicomachus is traditionally regarded as the son of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, after whom the Nicomachean Ethics is believed to be named.
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Theodorus of Cyrene
Theodorus of Cyrene was an ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher known for his work on irrational numbers and for teaching prominent figures such as Plato’s associate Theaetetus.
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Hypsicles
Hypsicles was an ancient Hellenistic Greek astronomer and mathematician known for his work on the division of the zodiac and for contributions sometimes associated with the Book XIV of Euclid’s Elements.
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Proclus
Proclus was a prominent 5th-century Neoplatonist philosopher best known for his systematic commentaries on Plato and for shaping later pagan and Christian metaphysical thought.
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Eudemus of Rhodes
Eudemus of Rhodes was an ancient Greek philosopher and historian of science, best known as a prominent Peripatetic who systematically documented the early development of mathematics and astronomy.
- 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: Nicomachus of Gerasa Target entity description: Nicomachus of Gerasa was an ancient Greek mathematician and Neopythagorean philosopher best known for his influential works on number theory and arithmetic, especially the "Introduction to Arithmetic."
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A.
Nicomachus
Nicomachus is traditionally regarded as the son of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, after whom the Nicomachean Ethics is believed to be named.
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B.
Theodorus of Cyrene
Theodorus of Cyrene was an ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher known for his work on irrational numbers and for teaching prominent figures such as Plato’s associate Theaetetus.
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C.
Hypsicles
Hypsicles was an ancient Hellenistic Greek astronomer and mathematician known for his work on the division of the zodiac and for contributions sometimes associated with the Book XIV of Euclid’s Elements.
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D.
Proclus
Proclus was a prominent 5th-century Neoplatonist philosopher best known for his systematic commentaries on Plato and for shaping later pagan and Christian metaphysical thought.
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E.
Eudemus of Rhodes
Eudemus of Rhodes was an ancient Greek philosopher and historian of science, best known as a prominent Peripatetic who systematically documented the early development of mathematics and astronomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.