New Academy
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The New Academy was a skeptical phase of Plato’s Academy in ancient Athens, marked by its emphasis on questioning the possibility of certain knowledge and influencing later Platonist developments.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Academy canonical | 9 |
| Late Academy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4604085 — 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: New Academy Context triple: [Middle Platonism, follows, New Academy]
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A.
The Academy
The Academy is a prominent American professional organization of musicians, producers, and recording professionals best known for presenting the annual Grammy Awards.
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B.
Lincean Academy
The Lincean Academy is one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific academies in the world, historically associated with figures like Galileo Galilei and dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in the sciences and humanities.
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C.
Collegium Novum
Collegium Novum is the main neo-Gothic administrative and ceremonial building of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
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D.
Straka Academy
Straka Academy is a historic neo-Baroque building in Prague that serves as the headquarters of the Government of the Czech Republic and the office of the Prime Minister.
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E.
Athenaeum Illustre
Athenaeum Illustre was the 17th-century predecessor institution in Amsterdam that evolved into the modern University of Amsterdam.
- 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: New Academy Target entity description: The New Academy was a skeptical phase of Plato’s Academy in ancient Athens, marked by its emphasis on questioning the possibility of certain knowledge and influencing later Platonist developments.
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A.
The Academy
The Academy is a prominent American professional organization of musicians, producers, and recording professionals best known for presenting the annual Grammy Awards.
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B.
Lincean Academy
The Lincean Academy is one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific academies in the world, historically associated with figures like Galileo Galilei and dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in the sciences and humanities.
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C.
Collegium Novum
Collegium Novum is the main neo-Gothic administrative and ceremonial building of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.
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D.
Straka Academy
Straka Academy is a historic neo-Baroque building in Prague that serves as the headquarters of the Government of the Czech Republic and the office of the Prime Minister.
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E.
Athenaeum Illustre
Athenaeum Illustre was the 17th-century predecessor institution in Amsterdam that evolved into the modern University of Amsterdam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
phase of Plato's Academy
ⓘ
philosophical school ⓘ |
| accepts | degrees of plausibility in beliefs ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Academic skepticism ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Dogmatic Platonism ⓘ |
| critiques | Stoic epistemology ⓘ |
| denies | certainty of human knowledge ⓘ |
| doctrine |
probabilism in epistemology
ⓘ
suspension of judgment (epoché) ⓘ |
| emphasizes | questioning the possibility of certain knowledge ⓘ |
| follows | Middle Academy ⓘ |
| foundedOnTraditionOf | Plato ⓘ |
| hasNotableScholar |
Carneades
ⓘ
Clitomachus ⓘ Philo of Larissa ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalOrientation | skepticism ⓘ |
| historicalPhaseOf | Academy of Athens ⓘ |
| influenced |
Cicero
ⓘ
Roman philosophy ⓘ later Platonist developments ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Athens
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ancient Greece ⓘ |
| partOf |
Plato's Academy
ⓘ
linked to:
Academy of Athens
|
| philosophicalFocus |
epistemology
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ethics ⓘ |
| precedes | Old Academy ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Hellenistic period ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: New Academy Description of subject: The New Academy was a skeptical phase of Plato’s Academy in ancient Athens, marked by its emphasis on questioning the possibility of certain knowledge and influencing later Platonist developments.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: New Academy