Sapere Aude
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Sapere Aude is a Latin phrase meaning "dare to know" or "dare to be wise," historically associated with Enlightenment thought and the encouragement of intellectual courage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sapere Aude canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2599637 — 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: Sapere Aude Context triple: [Manchester Grammar School, hasMotto, Sapere Aude]
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Vox Clamantis
Vox Clamantis is a Middle English and Latin allegorical poem by John Gower that reflects on the social and moral upheavals of 14th-century England, including the Peasants' Revolt.
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Sturm und Drang
Sturm und Drang was a late 18th-century German literary and cultural movement characterized by emotional intensity, individualism, and rebellion against Enlightenment rationalism, and is often seen as a precursor to Romanticism.
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C.
El siglo de las luces
El siglo de las luces is a landmark historical novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier that explores the impact of the French Revolution in the Caribbean through his signature blend of baroque style and magical realism.
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D.
Le Laudi
Le Laudi is a major poetic cycle by Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, celebrating nature, the senses, and human vitality in an ornate, symbolist style.
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E.
Oration on the Dignity of Man
Oration on the Dignity of Man is a seminal Renaissance philosophical text that celebrates human potential and freedom, often regarded as a manifesto of humanism.
- 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: Sapere Aude Target entity description: Sapere Aude is a Latin phrase meaning "dare to know" or "dare to be wise," historically associated with Enlightenment thought and the encouragement of intellectual courage.
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A.
Vox Clamantis
Vox Clamantis is a Middle English and Latin allegorical poem by John Gower that reflects on the social and moral upheavals of 14th-century England, including the Peasants' Revolt.
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B.
Sturm und Drang
Sturm und Drang was a late 18th-century German literary and cultural movement characterized by emotional intensity, individualism, and rebellion against Enlightenment rationalism, and is often seen as a precursor to Romanticism.
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C.
El siglo de las luces
El siglo de las luces is a landmark historical novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier that explores the impact of the French Revolution in the Caribbean through his signature blend of baroque style and magical realism.
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D.
Le Laudi
Le Laudi is a major poetic cycle by Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, celebrating nature, the senses, and human vitality in an ornate, symbolist style.
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E.
Oration on the Dignity of Man
Oration on the Dignity of Man is a seminal Renaissance philosophical text that celebrates human potential and freedom, often regarded as a manifesto of humanism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin phrase
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motto ⓘ |
| alternativeTranslation | dare to be wise ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Enlightenment
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linked to:
Age of Enlightenment
autonomy of reason ⓘ critical thinking ⓘ education ⓘ intellectual courage ⓘ rationalism ⓘ self-determination ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
call to intellectual bravery
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emblem of secular rational inquiry ⓘ expression of humanist ideals ⓘ slogan of Enlightenment thought ⓘ |
| encourages |
critical examination of beliefs
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lifelong learning ⓘ personal responsibility for knowledge ⓘ questioning dogma ⓘ self-reflection ⓘ |
| fieldOfUse |
education
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ethics ⓘ intellectual history ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political theory ⓘ |
| hasConceptualTheme |
encouragement of independent thought
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enlightenment of the individual ⓘ freedom of thought ⓘ intellectual maturity ⓘ moral responsibility to think ⓘ overcoming ignorance ⓘ pursuit of knowledge ⓘ questioning authority ⓘ use of one’s own reason ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literalMeaning | dare to know ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Enlightenment (intellectual movement)
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linked to:
Age of Enlightenment
autonomy ⓘ emancipation from tutelage ⓘ humanism ⓘ liberal education ⓘ reason ⓘ |
| timePeriodAssociated | Age of Enlightenment ⓘ |
| usedAsMottoBy |
academic institutions
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learned societies ⓘ philosophical movements ⓘ schools ⓘ universities ⓘ |
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: Sapere Aude Description of subject: Sapere Aude is a Latin phrase meaning "dare to know" or "dare to be wise," historically associated with Enlightenment thought and the encouragement of intellectual courage.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.