Aristocles
E36430
Aristocles was the given birth name of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aristocles canonical | 1 |
| Aristokles | 1 |
| Aristoklēs | 1 |
| Ἀριστοκλῆς | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T281218 — 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: Aristocles Context triple: [Plato, birthName, Aristocles]
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A.
Timotheus
Timotheus is the Latin form of the given name Timothy, historically used in ecclesiastical, scholarly, and classical contexts.
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B.
Callicrates
Callicrates was an ancient Greek architect of the Classical period, best known for co-designing the Parthenon and contributing to other major Athenian temple projects.
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C.
Apollodorus of Athens
Apollodorus of Athens was a 2nd-century BCE Greek scholar and grammarian known for his influential mythographical and chronological works.
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D.
Aristippus
Aristippus was an ancient Greek philosopher from Cyrene, best known as the founder of the Cyrenaic school, which taught that immediate physical pleasure is the highest good.
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E.
Menoetius
Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
- 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: Aristocles Target entity description: Aristocles was the given birth name of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy.
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A.
Timotheus
Timotheus is the Latin form of the given name Timothy, historically used in ecclesiastical, scholarly, and classical contexts.
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B.
Callicrates
Callicrates was an ancient Greek architect of the Classical period, best known for co-designing the Parthenon and contributing to other major Athenian temple projects.
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C.
Apollodorus of Athens
Apollodorus of Athens was a 2nd-century BCE Greek scholar and grammarian known for his influential mythographical and chronological works.
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D.
Aristippus
Aristippus was an ancient Greek philosopher from Cyrene, best known as the founder of the Cyrenaic school, which taught that immediate physical pleasure is the highest good.
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E.
Menoetius
Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek philosopher
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Classical Athens ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Plato ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek culture ⓘ |
| etymologyContains |
aristos (best)
ⓘ
kleos (glory) ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenNameOf | Plato ⓘ |
| hasGivenNameForm |
Ἀριστοκλῆς
ⓘ
linked to:
Aristocles
|
| hasRomanization |
Aristoklēs
ⓘ
linked to:
Aristocles
|
| historicalPeriod |
Classical antiquity
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Mediterranean world
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| mentionedIn | biographical traditions about Plato ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| nameType | masculine given name ⓘ |
| notableAs | birth name of Plato ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Plato ⓘ |
| region |
Ancient Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| script | Greek alphabet ⓘ |
| usedIn | ancient Greek onomastics ⓘ |
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: Aristocles Description of subject: Aristocles was the given birth name of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Aristocles
linked to: Aristocles
linked to: Aristocles