Platonic corpus
E191689
The Platonic corpus is the collection of philosophical dialogues and letters attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Platonic corpus canonical | 16 |
| Corpus Platonicum | 1 |
| Πλατωνική παράδοση | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1685843 — 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: Platonic corpus Context triple: [Euthydemus, partOf, Platonic corpus]
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A.
Platonic solids
Platonic solids are the five highly symmetrical, convex polyhedra (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron) that have identical regular polygonal faces and are fundamental in geometry and classical philosophy.
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Theologia Platonica
Theologia Platonica is Marsilio Ficino’s major philosophical treatise that systematically presents a Christianized interpretation of Plato’s metaphysics and the immortality of the soul, foundational to Renaissance Platonism.
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Pythagoreio
Pythagoreio is a historic coastal town and popular tourist resort on the Greek island of Samos, known for its ancient harbor and archaeological sites.
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Timaeus
Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
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Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism is an ancient Greek philosophical and religious movement founded by Pythagoras, emphasizing the mystical significance of numbers, the harmony of the cosmos, and the transmigration of souls.
- 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: Platonic corpus Target entity description: The Platonic corpus is the collection of philosophical dialogues and letters attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
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A.
Platonic solids
Platonic solids are the five highly symmetrical, convex polyhedra (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron) that have identical regular polygonal faces and are fundamental in geometry and classical philosophy.
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B.
Theologia Platonica
Theologia Platonica is Marsilio Ficino’s major philosophical treatise that systematically presents a Christianized interpretation of Plato’s metaphysics and the immortality of the soul, foundational to Renaissance Platonism.
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C.
Pythagoreio
Pythagoreio is a historic coastal town and popular tourist resort on the Greek island of Samos, known for its ancient harbor and archaeological sites.
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D.
Timaeus
Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
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E.
Enneads
Enneads is the foundational collection of philosophical writings by Plotinus that systematizes Neoplatonism and profoundly influenced later Western and Islamic thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
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: Platonic corpus Description of subject: The Platonic corpus is the collection of philosophical dialogues and letters attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Plato's Alcibiades II
linked to: Platonic corpus
subject linked to:
Plato's "Phaedrus"