Echecrates
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Echecrates is a Pythagorean philosopher who appears in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo" as the interlocutor to whom Phaedo recounts the final conversation and death of Socrates.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Echecrates canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T448787 — 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: Echecrates Context triple: [Phaedo, featuresCharacter, Echecrates]
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A.
Charmides
Charmides is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that explores the nature of temperance or self-control through a philosophical conversation between Socrates and the young Charmides.
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B.
Cebes of Thebes
Cebes of Thebes was an ancient Greek philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, and a prominent interlocutor in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo."
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C.
Cratylus
Cratylus is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that explores the nature and correctness of names and language.
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D.
Κρίτων
Κρίτων is a Socratic dialogue by Plato in which Socrates discusses justice, obligation, and civil disobedience with his friend Crito while awaiting execution.
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E.
Theaetetus
Theaetetus is a Platonic dialogue that explores the nature of knowledge through a conversation between Socrates and the young mathematician Theaetetus.
- 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: Echecrates Target entity description: Echecrates is a Pythagorean philosopher who appears in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo" as the interlocutor to whom Phaedo recounts the final conversation and death of Socrates.
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A.
Charmides
Charmides is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that explores the nature of temperance or self-control through a philosophical conversation between Socrates and the young Charmides.
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B.
Cebes of Thebes
Cebes of Thebes was an ancient Greek philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, and a prominent interlocutor in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo."
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C.
Cratylus
Cratylus is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that explores the nature and correctness of names and language.
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D.
Κρίτων
Κρίτων is a Socratic dialogue by Plato in which Socrates discusses justice, obligation, and civil disobedience with his friend Crito while awaiting execution.
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E.
Theaetetus
Theaetetus is a Platonic dialogue that explores the nature of knowledge through a conversation between Socrates and the young mathematician Theaetetus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ancient Greek philosopher
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Literary character ⓘ Platonic dialogue character ⓘ Pythagorean philosopher ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | Socratic dialogue ⓘ |
| asksAbout |
arguments for the immortality of the soul
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circumstances of Socrates’ execution ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Phaedo of Elis
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Socrates ⓘ |
| createdBy | Plato ⓘ |
| dialogueRoleType | questioner ⓘ |
| dialogueWith | Phaedo ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | possibly historical, known primarily from Plato’s dialogue ⓘ |
| genreContext | ancient Greek philosophical literature ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Phaedo ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | frame narrator’s interlocutor in Phaedo ⓘ |
| philosophicalInterest |
Socratic teaching
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soul and afterlife ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Pythagoreanism ⓘ |
| receivesAccountOf |
death of Socrates
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final conversation of Socrates ⓘ |
| receivesNarrationFrom | Phaedo ⓘ |
| religiousPhilosophicalOrientation | Pythagorean ⓘ |
| roleInWork | interlocutor ⓘ |
| settingOfAppearance | Phlius ⓘ |
| sourceFor | indirect report of Socrates’ last hours ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Classical Greece ⓘ |
| workAttributedContext | Platonic corpus ⓘ |
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: Echecrates Description of subject: Echecrates is a Pythagorean philosopher who appears in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo" as the interlocutor to whom Phaedo recounts the final conversation and death of Socrates.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.