Philocrates
E197880
Philocrates is the purported recipient and addressee of the ancient Jewish-Hellenistic work known as the Letter of Aristeas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philocrates canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1715959 — 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: Philocrates Context triple: [Letter of Aristeas, claimsToBeAddressedTo, Philocrates]
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A.
Echecrates
Echecrates is a Pythagorean philosopher who appears in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo" as the interlocutor to whom Phaedo recounts the final conversation and death of Socrates.
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Cebes of Thebes
Cebes of Thebes was an ancient Greek philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, and a prominent interlocutor in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo."
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C.
Timaeus of Tauromenium
Timaeus of Tauromenium was an ancient Greek historian of Magna Graecia, best known for his extensive universal history that greatly influenced later writers like Polybius and Diodorus Siculus.
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D.
Gorgias
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that examines the nature of rhetoric, justice, and the good life through a debate between Socrates and the sophist Gorgias.
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E.
Gorgias
Gorgias was a pre-Socratic Greek sophist and rhetorician renowned for his skillful, ornamental style of speech and his skeptical, paradoxical philosophical arguments.
- 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: Philocrates Target entity description: Philocrates is the purported recipient and addressee of the ancient Jewish-Hellenistic work known as the Letter of Aristeas.
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A.
Echecrates
Echecrates is a Pythagorean philosopher who appears in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo" as the interlocutor to whom Phaedo recounts the final conversation and death of Socrates.
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B.
Cebes of Thebes
Cebes of Thebes was an ancient Greek philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, and a prominent interlocutor in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo."
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C.
Timaeus of Tauromenium
Timaeus of Tauromenium was an ancient Greek historian of Magna Graecia, best known for his extensive universal history that greatly influenced later writers like Polybius and Diodorus Siculus.
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D.
Gorgias
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that examines the nature of rhetoric, justice, and the good life through a debate between Socrates and the sophist Gorgias.
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E.
Gorgias
Gorgias was a pre-Socratic Greek sophist and rhetorician renowned for his skillful, ornamental style of speech and his skeptical, paradoxical philosophical arguments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek person
ⓘ
literary addressee ⓘ |
| associatedWithCulture |
Hellenistic Judaism
ⓘ
linked to:
Hellenistic Jews
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| associatedWithGenre | Jewish-Hellenistic literature ⓘ |
| describedAs | purported recipient of a pseudepigraphal letter ⓘ |
| hasLanguageContext | Greek ⓘ |
| hasNameForm | Φιλοκράτης ⓘ |
| hasPrimarySource |
Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates
ⓘ
linked to:
Letter of Aristeas
|
| hasUncertainHistoricStatus | true ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Letter of Aristeas ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the addressee of the Letter of Aristeas ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
addressee of the Letter of Aristeas
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purported recipient of the Letter of Aristeas ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Hellenistic period ⓘ |
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: Philocrates Description of subject: Philocrates is the purported recipient and addressee of the ancient Jewish-Hellenistic work known as the Letter of Aristeas.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.