Sophroniscus (son of Socrates)
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Sophroniscus was one of the sons of the Athenian philosopher Socrates and his wife Xanthippe.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sophroniscus (son of Socrates) canonical | 3 |
| Sophroniscus (father of Socrates) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T548838 — 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: Sophroniscus (son of Socrates) Context triple: [Lamprocles, siblingOf, Sophroniscus (son of Socrates)]
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A.
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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B.
Menexenus (son)
Menexenus (son) is known in ancient Greek tradition as a son of the philosopher Socrates.
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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.
Aristippus
Aristippus was an ancient Greek philosopher from Cyrene, best known as the founder of the Cyrenaic school, which taught that immediate physical pleasure is the highest good.
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E.
Euclid of Megara
Euclid of Megara was an ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the Megarian school, known for combining Socratic ethics with Eleatic logic and dialectical methods.
- 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: Sophroniscus (son of Socrates) Target entity description: Sophroniscus was one of the sons of the Athenian philosopher Socrates and his wife Xanthippe.
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A.
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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B.
Menexenus (son)
Menexenus (son) is known in ancient Greek tradition as a son of the philosopher Socrates.
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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.
Aristippus
Aristippus was an ancient Greek philosopher from Cyrene, best known as the founder of the Cyrenaic school, which taught that immediate physical pleasure is the highest good.
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E.
Euclid of Megara
Euclid of Megara was an ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the Megarian school, known for combining Socratic ethics with Eleatic logic and dialectical methods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Athenian person
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ancient Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
Classical Athens ⓘ |
| culture | Classical Athenian culture ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ancient Athenians ⓘ |
| familyName | unknown ⓘ |
| father | Socrates ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Sophroniscus ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | poorlyAttestedIndividual ⓘ |
| knownFor | being a son of Socrates and Xanthippe ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mother | Xanthippe ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Sophroniscus (father of Socrates)
ⓘ
linked to:
Sophroniscus (son of Socrates)
|
| nameInGreek | Σωφρονίσκος ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Socrates
ⓘ
Sophroniscus (father of Socrates) ⓘ
linked to:
Sophroniscus (son of Socrates)
Xanthippe ⓘ |
| partOf | family of Socrates ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Athens ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Lamprocles
ⓘ
Menexenus (son of Socrates) ⓘ
linked to:
Menexenus (son)
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| sourceType | ancient biographical tradition about Socrates ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
4th century BC
ⓘ
5th century BC ⓘ |
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: Sophroniscus (son of Socrates) Description of subject: Sophroniscus was one of the sons of the Athenian philosopher Socrates and his wife Xanthippe.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sophroniscus (son of Socrates)
linked to: Sophroniscus (son of Socrates)