Phaedo of Elis
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Phaedo of Elis was an ancient Greek philosopher and disciple of Socrates, best known as the namesake and reported source of Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo," which recounts Socrates’ final hours and arguments for the immortality of the soul.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phaedo of Elis canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T448809 — 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: Phaedo of Elis Context triple: [Phaedo, narrator, Phaedo of Elis]
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Echecrates
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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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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Timaeus of Tauromenium
Timaeus of Tauromenium was an ancient Greek historian of Magna Graecia, best known for his extensive universal history that greatly influenced later writers like Polybius and Diodorus Siculus.
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D.
Phaedrus
Phaedrus is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that explores themes of love, rhetoric, and the soul through a conversation between Socrates and the young Athenian Phaedrus.
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E.
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.
- 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: Phaedo of Elis Target entity description: Phaedo of Elis was an ancient Greek philosopher and disciple of Socrates, best known as the namesake and reported source of Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo," which recounts Socrates’ final hours and arguments for the immortality of the soul.
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A.
Echecrates
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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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.
Timaeus of Tauromenium
Timaeus of Tauromenium was an ancient Greek historian of Magna Graecia, best known for his extensive universal history that greatly influenced later writers like Polybius and Diodorus Siculus.
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D.
Phaedrus
Phaedrus is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that explores themes of love, rhetoric, and the soul through a conversation between Socrates and the young Athenian Phaedrus.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek philosopher
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disciple of Socrates ⓘ historical person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Plato
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Socrates ⓘ |
| citizenship | Elis ⓘ |
| era | 5th–4th century BCE ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influenced | Plato ⓘ |
| influencedWork |
Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo"
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linked to:
Middle dialogues of Plato
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| knownAs | Phaedo ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Socratic circle
ⓘ
linked to:
School of Socrates
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| name | Phaedo of Elis ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the Socratic circle
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being a disciple of Socrates ⓘ being the reported source for Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo" ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Socratic philosophy ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo"
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linked to:
Middle dialogues of Plato
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| region | Elis in the Peloponnese ⓘ |
| roleInWork | narrator of the events in Plato’s "Phaedo" ⓘ |
| sourceFor |
accounts of Socrates’ final hours
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arguments for the immortality of the soul in Plato’s "Phaedo" ⓘ |
| studentOf | Socrates ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Classical Greece ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Phaedo of Elis Description of subject: Phaedo of Elis was an ancient Greek philosopher and disciple of Socrates, best known as the namesake and reported source of Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo," which recounts Socrates’ final hours and arguments for the immortality of the soul.
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