College of the Six Days' Works
E628498
The College of the Six Days' Works is the fictional scientific institution in Francis Bacon’s utopian work "New Atlantis," envisioned as a prototype for organized empirical research and the advancement of knowledge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| College of the Six Days' Works canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6919353 — 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: College of the Six Days' Works Context triple: [Salomon's House, hasAlternativeName, College of the Six Days' Works]
-
A.
The Congregation
The Congregation is the English title of Surah Al-Jumu'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes the importance of the Friday congregational prayer and heeding God’s call over worldly distractions.
-
B.
De Opificio Dei
De Opificio Dei is an early Christian theological treatise by Lactantius that reflects on the creation of the world and the nature of God through philosophical argument.
-
C.
The Sabbath
The Sabbath is a classic work of Jewish spiritual thought by Abraham Joshua Heschel that explores the sanctity of time and the meaning of sacred rest in Jewish life.
-
D.
The Divinity School
The Divinity School is a historic academic institution dedicated to the study of theology, religion, and related disciplines.
-
E.
Lords of the Congregation
The Lords of the Congregation were a group of Scottish Protestant nobles who led the political and military movement that overthrew Catholic influence and established Protestantism during the Scottish Reformation.
- 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: College of the Six Days' Works Target entity description: The College of the Six Days' Works is the fictional scientific institution in Francis Bacon’s utopian work "New Atlantis," envisioned as a prototype for organized empirical research and the advancement of knowledge.
-
A.
The Congregation
The Congregation is the English title of Surah Al-Jumu'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes the importance of the Friday congregational prayer and heeding God’s call over worldly distractions.
-
B.
De Opificio Dei
De Opificio Dei is an early Christian theological treatise by Lactantius that reflects on the creation of the world and the nature of God through philosophical argument.
-
C.
The Sabbath
The Sabbath is a classic work of Jewish spiritual thought by Abraham Joshua Heschel that explores the sanctity of time and the meaning of sacred rest in Jewish life.
-
D.
The Divinity School
The Divinity School is a historic academic institution dedicated to the study of theology, religion, and related disciplines.
-
E.
Lords of the Congregation
The Lords of the Congregation were a group of Scottish Protestant nobles who led the political and military movement that overthrew Catholic influence and established Protestantism during the Scottish Reformation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional scientific institution
ⓘ
institution in literature ⓘ learned society ⓘ |
| appearsInCentury | 17th century literature ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | utopian literature ⓘ |
| countryInFiction | Bensalem ⓘ |
| creator | Francis Bacon ⓘ |
| describedInWork | New Atlantis ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInWorkYear | 1627 (New Atlantis posthumous publication) ⓘ |
| hasEthos |
piety and moral responsibility in research
ⓘ
public good over private gain ⓘ secrecy toward foreign nations ⓘ |
| hasFieldOfStudy |
astronomy
ⓘ
chemistry (chymistry) ⓘ mechanical arts ⓘ medicine ⓘ meteorology ⓘ natural history ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English (narrative language) ⓘ |
| hasMemberRole |
compilers
ⓘ
depredators ⓘ dowry-men ⓘ inoculators ⓘ interpreters of nature ⓘ lamps ⓘ merchants of light ⓘ mystery-men ⓘ pioneers or miners ⓘ |
| hasMethodology |
collaborative research
ⓘ
collection and classification of data ⓘ inductive reasoning ⓘ systematic experimentation ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryActivity |
advancement of knowledge
ⓘ
collection of observations ⓘ empirical research ⓘ natural philosophy ⓘ scientific experimentation ⓘ technological invention ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
application of science to practical uses
ⓘ
benefit of human life ⓘ glorification of God through works ⓘ systematic organization of knowledge ⓘ |
| influenced |
concept of the Royal Society
ⓘ
development of scientific academies in early modern Europe ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | Bensalem ⓘ |
| modeledAs |
prototype of a modern research institute
ⓘ
prototype of an organized scientific academy ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bensalem
ⓘ
New Atlantis ⓘ |
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: College of the Six Days' Works Description of subject: The College of the Six Days' Works is the fictional scientific institution in Francis Bacon’s utopian work "New Atlantis," envisioned as a prototype for organized empirical research and the advancement of knowledge.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Salomon's House as a research institution