Hippias of Elis
E205084
Hippias of Elis was a 5th-century BCE Greek sophist, polymath, and contemporary of Socrates known for his wide-ranging knowledge and rhetorical skill.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hippias of Elis canonical | 6 |
| Hippias | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1778205 — 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: Hippias of Elis Context triple: [Hippias Major, featuresCharacter, Hippias of Elis]
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A.
Hippias of Athens
Hippias of Athens was a 6th-century BCE Athenian tyrant, known for ruling alongside and then after his father Peisistratus before being overthrown and exiled.
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B.
Philocrates
Philocrates is the purported recipient and addressee of the ancient Jewish-Hellenistic work known as the Letter of Aristeas.
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C.
Polemon of Athens
Polemon of Athens was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Platonic tradition who led the Academy in the early 3rd century BCE and emphasized practical ethics and living in accordance with nature.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Hippias of Elis Target entity description: Hippias of Elis was a 5th-century BCE Greek sophist, polymath, and contemporary of Socrates known for his wide-ranging knowledge and rhetorical skill.
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A.
Hippias of Athens
Hippias of Athens was a 6th-century BCE Athenian tyrant, known for ruling alongside and then after his father Peisistratus before being overthrown and exiled.
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B.
Philocrates
Philocrates is the purported recipient and addressee of the ancient Jewish-Hellenistic work known as the Letter of Aristeas.
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C.
Polemon of Athens
Polemon of Athens was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Platonic tradition who led the Academy in the early 3rd century BCE and emphasized practical ethics and living in accordance with nature.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek sophist
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philosopher ⓘ polymath ⓘ rhetorician ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
practical education
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relativism ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf |
Gorgias
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Protagoras ⓘ Socrates ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astronomy
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grammar ⓘ history ⓘ mathematics ⓘ mnemonics ⓘ music theory ⓘ philosophy ⓘ poetry ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ |
| floruit | late 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| hasWorkAttributed |
Hippias’ Trojan Dialogue
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genealogical and historical compilations ⓘ technical writings on memory ⓘ |
| influenced | later rhetorical education in Greece ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ability to recite long lists from memory
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claiming expertise in many disciplines ⓘ encyclopedic learning ⓘ memory feats ⓘ rhetorical skill ⓘ self-sufficiency in crafts and skills ⓘ wide-ranging knowledge ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sophists ⓘ |
| nationality | Greek ⓘ |
| occupation |
itinerant sophist
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lecturer ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| philosophicalIdea | distinction between law and nature ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
Sophism
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linked to:
Sophists
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| placeOfBirth | Elis ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Plato ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Plato's dialogue Hippias Major
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linked to:
Hippias Major
Plato's dialogue Hippias Minor ⓘ
linked to:
Hippias Minor
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| taught |
rhetoric
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virtue for pay ⓘ |
| taughtIn |
Athens
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Olympia ⓘ Sparta ⓘ |
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: Hippias of Elis Description of subject: Hippias of Elis was a 5th-century BCE Greek sophist, polymath, and contemporary of Socrates known for his wide-ranging knowledge and rhetorical skill.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hippias of Elis
linked to: Hippias of Elis
linked to: Hippias of Elis
subject linked to:
Plato's dialogue "Protagoras"