Fathers of Salomon's House
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The Fathers of Salomon's House are the senior learned officials in Francis Bacon’s utopian institution in *New Atlantis*, responsible for overseeing scientific inquiry and the advancement of knowledge for the benefit of society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fathers of Salomon's House canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6919326 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fathers of Salomon's House Context triple: [Salomon's House, hasMemberType, Fathers of Salomon's House]
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The Israelite
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The Brothers Ashkenazi
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C.
Four Sons
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Savoraim
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Priesand
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- 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: Fathers of Salomon's House Target entity description: The Fathers of Salomon's House are the senior learned officials in Francis Bacon’s utopian institution in *New Atlantis*, responsible for overseeing scientific inquiry and the advancement of knowledge for the benefit of society.
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A.
The Israelite
The Israelite was a 19th-century American Jewish newspaper that served as a leading voice for Reform Judaism and Jewish communal affairs.
-
B.
The Brothers Ashkenazi
The Brothers Ashkenazi is a major Yiddish novel by I.J. Singer that portrays the rise of Jewish industrialists and the social upheavals in the Polish city of Łódź around the turn of the 20th century.
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C.
Four Sons
Four Sons refers to the traditional Passover Haggadah passage that characterizes four types of children—wise, wicked, simple, and the one who does not know how to ask—each with a distinct way of engaging with the story of the Exodus.
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D.
Savoraim
The Savoraim were Jewish Talmudic scholars who succeeded the Amoraim and are traditionally credited with editing, organizing, and finalizing the Babylonian Talmud.
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E.
Priesand
Priesand is the surname of Sally Priesand, the first woman ordained as a rabbi in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
characters in literature
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fictional scholarly group ⓘ learned officials ⓘ |
| appearsIn | New Atlantis ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
Baconian scientific method
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linked to:
Baconian method
organized research institution ⓘ public good through science ⓘ utopian science ⓘ |
| creator | Francis Bacon ⓘ |
| describedAs |
governors of the College of the Six Days' Works
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senior learned officials of Salomon's House ⓘ |
| ethicalOrientation |
aim to avoid vain glory and mere curiosity
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oriented toward the relief of man's estate ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | exist only within the narrative of New Atlantis ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1627 ⓘ |
| governedBy | a head called the Father of Salomon's House ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
collect natural histories
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control dissemination of new knowledge ⓘ design and interpret experiments ⓘ develop practical inventions ⓘ maintain secrecy about certain discoveries ⓘ |
| hasMemberRole | Father ⓘ |
| influenced |
concept of state-supported research institutions
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later ideas of scientific academies ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | ideal of a reformed scientific community ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional | Bensalem ⓘ |
| partOf |
Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
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Salomon's House ⓘ the society of Bensalem ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
advise the state of Bensalem
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apply knowledge for the benefit of society ⓘ direct experiments and observations ⓘ govern scientific inquiry in Bensalem ⓘ oversee the advancement of knowledge ⓘ |
| workPublicationCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
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Subject: Fathers of Salomon's House Description of subject: The Fathers of Salomon's House are the senior learned officials in Francis Bacon’s utopian institution in *New Atlantis*, responsible for overseeing scientific inquiry and the advancement of knowledge for the benefit of society.
Referenced by (2)
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subject linked to:
Salomon's House as a research institution