Critobulus
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Critobulus was an ancient Athenian known from Plato’s dialogues as the son of Crito and an associate of Socrates.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Critobulus canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T281327 — 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: Critobulus Context triple: [Crito, child, Critobulus]
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A.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
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B.
Rhynchortyx
Rhynchortyx is a small genus of New World quails known for inhabiting dense tropical forests in Central and South America.
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C.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
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D.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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E.
Kinixys
Kinixys is a genus of African hinge-back tortoises known for the movable hinge on their shells that allows them to partially close the rear portion for protection.
- 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: Critobulus Target entity description: Critobulus was an ancient Athenian known from Plato’s dialogues as the son of Crito and an associate of Socrates.
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A.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
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B.
Rhynchortyx
Rhynchortyx is a small genus of New World quails known for inhabiting dense tropical forests in Central and South America.
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C.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
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D.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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E.
Kinixys
Kinixys is a genus of African hinge-back tortoises known for the movable hinge on their shells that allows them to partially close the rear portion for protection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Athenian person
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classical Athenian ⓘ |
| associateOf | Socrates ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Classical Athens ⓘ |
| describedAs |
associate of Socrates
ⓘ
son of Crito ⓘ |
| father | Crito ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Plato's Apology
ⓘ
linked to:
Apology of Socrates
Plato's Charmides ⓘ Plato's Crito ⓘ
linked to:
Crito
Plato's Euthydemus ⓘ
linked to:
"Euthydemus" by Plato
Plato's Laches ⓘ
linked to:
Laches
Plato's Phaedo ⓘ
linked to:
Phaedo
Plato's Symposium ⓘ Plato's dialogues ⓘ
linked to:
Plato's Charmides
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| notableFor |
appearing in Platonic dialogues
ⓘ
being a companion of Socrates ⓘ |
| participatesIn | Socratic conversations ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Socratic circle ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Plato ⓘ |
| residence | Athens ⓘ |
| socialClass | Athenian citizen ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
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: Critobulus Description of subject: Critobulus was an ancient Athenian known from Plato’s dialogues as the son of Crito and an associate of Socrates.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.