Protarchus
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Protarchus is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Philebus," where he serves as a principal interlocutor debating the nature of pleasure and the good life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Protarchus canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1911297 — 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: Protarchus Context triple: [Philebus, featuresCharacter, Protarchus]
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A.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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B.
Speusippus
Speusippus was an ancient Greek philosopher who succeeded his uncle Plato as head of the Academy in Athens and contributed to early developments in metaphysics and ethics.
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C.
Pleisthenes
Pleisthenes is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology, sometimes described as a son of Atreus and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, and associated with the royal house of Mycenae.
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D.
Tlepolemus
Tlepolemus is a figure in Greek mythology, known as a son of Heracles who became a leader of Rhodian forces in the Trojan War.
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E.
Demetrios
Demetrios is a Greek given name historically borne by several notable Byzantine figures, including members of the Palaiologos dynasty.
- 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: Protarchus Target entity description: Protarchus is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Philebus," where he serves as a principal interlocutor debating the nature of pleasure and the good life.
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A.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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B.
Speusippus
Speusippus was an ancient Greek philosopher who succeeded his uncle Plato as head of the Academy in Athens and contributed to early developments in metaphysics and ethics.
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C.
Pleisthenes
Pleisthenes is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology, sometimes described as a son of Atreus and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, and associated with the royal house of Mycenae.
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D.
Tlepolemus
Tlepolemus is a figure in Greek mythology, known as a son of Heracles who became a leader of Rhodian forces in the Trojan War.
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E.
Demetrios
Demetrios is a Greek given name historically borne by several notable Byzantine figures, including members of the Palaiologos dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Platonic character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Philebus ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy |
ancient Greek philosopher Plato
ⓘ
linked to:
Plato
|
| associatedWith | hedonism ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Socrates as defender of intellect and measure ⓘ |
| createdBy | Plato ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Classical Greece ⓘ |
| dialogueWith | Socrates ⓘ |
| discusses |
knowledge
ⓘ
pleasure ⓘ the good ⓘ the good life ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| medium | literary text ⓘ |
| opposesViewOf | Socrates on the supremacy of intellect over pleasure ⓘ |
| philosophicalTheme |
ethics
ⓘ
philosophy of pleasure ⓘ value theory ⓘ |
| positionInDialogue | younger interlocutor ⓘ |
| replaces |
Philebus as interlocutor in the dialogue
ⓘ
linked to:
Philebus
|
| roleInWork | principal interlocutor ⓘ |
| supportsView | pleasure is the good ⓘ |
| timeOfCompositionContext | 4th century BCE Athenian philosophy ⓘ |
| workGenre | Socratic dialogue ⓘ |
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: Protarchus Description of subject: Protarchus is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Philebus," where he serves as a principal interlocutor debating the nature of pleasure and the good life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.