Meletus
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Meletus was the principal accuser who initiated the charges of impiety and corrupting the youth against Socrates in classical Athens.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T467077 — 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: Meletus Context triple: [Apology of Socrates, hasAccuser, Meletus]
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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.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Gorgias
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that examines the nature of rhetoric, justice, and the good life through a debate between Socrates and the sophist Gorgias.
- 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: Meletus Target entity description: Meletus was the principal accuser who initiated the charges of impiety and corrupting the youth against Socrates in classical Athens.
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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.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Gorgias
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that examines the nature of rhetoric, justice, and the good life through a debate between Socrates and the sophist Gorgias.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Athenian citizen
ⓘ
accuser of Socrates ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| accused | Socrates ⓘ |
| activeInCentury |
4th century BCE
ⓘ
5th century BCE ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharge |
corrupting the youth of Athens
ⓘ
introducing new deities by Socrates ⓘ not believing in the gods of the city ⓘ |
| broughtChargesOf |
corrupting the youth against Socrates
ⓘ
impiety against Socrates ⓘ |
| cityOfCitizenship | Athens ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Anytus
ⓘ
Lycon ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Athenian democracy after the Peloponnesian War
ⓘ
linked to:
Athenian democracy
|
| knownFromSource |
Plato's Apology
ⓘ
linked to:
Apology of Socrates
Xenophon's Apology of Socrates ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| legalActionType | public indictment (graphe) against Socrates ⓘ |
| legalStatusInCase | principal accuser of Socrates ⓘ |
| mentionedInWorkBy |
Plato
ⓘ
Xenophon ⓘ |
| nameTransliteratedAs |
Meletos
ⓘ
linked to:
Meletus
|
| opposed | Socrates' philosophical activity ⓘ |
| outcomeOfCaseHeBrought | condemnation of Socrates to death ⓘ |
| politicalRoleInCase | formal prosecutor in Socrates' trial ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | young and relatively unknown in Athenian politics ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Athenian state religion ⓘ |
| roleIn | trial of Socrates ⓘ |
| timePeriod | classical Athens ⓘ |
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: Meletus Description of subject: Meletus was the principal accuser who initiated the charges of impiety and corrupting the youth against Socrates in classical Athens.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.