Meditatio quinta
E740639
Meditatio quinta is the Latin title of René Descartes’ Fifth Meditation, in which he develops arguments for the existence of God and explores the nature of material things.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meditatio quinta canonical | 2 |
| Meditatio Quinta | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8535607 — 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: Meditatio quinta Context triple: [Fifth Meditation, originalTitle, Meditatio quinta]
-
A.
Meditatio Tertia
Meditatio Tertia is the Latin title of René Descartes’ Third Meditation, a key philosophical text in which he develops arguments for the existence of God and the certainty of clear and distinct ideas.
-
B.
De Tranquillitate Animi
De Tranquillitate Animi is a philosophical essay by Seneca the Younger that explores how to achieve inner peace and mental stability through Stoic principles.
-
C.
Utrinque Paratus
Utrinque Paratus is the Latin motto of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment, meaning “Ready for Anything” or “Ready on Both Sides,” reflecting its airborne readiness and versatility.
-
D.
De diligendo Deo
De diligendo Deo is a spiritual treatise by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux that explores the nature, reasons, and degrees of loving God.
-
E.
Sublimis Deus
Sublimis Deus is a 1537 papal bull by Pope Paul III that declared the indigenous peoples of the Americas to be rational humans with souls who must not be enslaved.
- 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: Meditatio quinta Target entity description: Meditatio quinta is the Latin title of René Descartes’ Fifth Meditation, in which he develops arguments for the existence of God and explores the nature of material things.
-
A.
Meditatio Tertia
Meditatio Tertia is the Latin title of René Descartes’ Third Meditation, a key philosophical text in which he develops arguments for the existence of God and the certainty of clear and distinct ideas.
-
B.
De Tranquillitate Animi
De Tranquillitate Animi is a philosophical essay by Seneca the Younger that explores how to achieve inner peace and mental stability through Stoic principles.
-
C.
Utrinque Paratus
Utrinque Paratus is the Latin motto of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment, meaning “Ready for Anything” or “Ready on Both Sides,” reflecting its airborne readiness and versatility.
-
D.
De diligendo Deo
De diligendo Deo is a spiritual treatise by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux that explores the nature, reasons, and degrees of loving God.
-
E.
Sublimis Deus
Sublimis Deus is a 1537 papal bull by Pope Paul III that declared the indigenous peoples of the Americas to be rational humans with souls who must not be enslaved.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin‑language work
ⓘ
chapter ⓘ meditation ⓘ philosophical work ⓘ |
| author | René Descartes ⓘ |
| centuryOfComposition | 17th century ⓘ |
| concerns |
God
ⓘ
ideas ⓘ infinite substance ⓘ material substance ⓘ |
| developsArgumentFor | existence of a perfect God ⓘ |
| discusses |
distinction between essence and existence
ⓘ
essence of material things ⓘ mathematical properties of bodies ⓘ |
| follows | Meditatio quarta ⓘ |
| genre | early modern philosophy ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | French ⓘ |
| hasKeyArgumentType |
a priori argument
ⓘ
ontological proof ⓘ |
| hasOriginalPublicationYear | 1641 ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalIssue |
certainty of knowledge about God
ⓘ
knowability of material things through intellect ⓘ relation between essence and existence in God ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalSchool | Cartesianism ⓘ |
| hasSeriesTitle |
Meditationes de prima philosophia
ⓘ
linked to:
Meditations on First Philosophy
|
| hasWorkPartNumber | 5 ⓘ |
| includedIn | first 1641 Latin edition of Meditationes de prima philosophia ⓘ |
| influenced |
later debates on the ontological argument
ⓘ
modern philosophy of religion ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian theology
ⓘ
Scholastic philosophy ⓘ
linked to:
Scholasticism
|
| mainTopic |
epistemology
ⓘ
existence of God ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ nature of material things ⓘ philosophy of religion ⓘ |
| partOf |
Meditationes de prima philosophia
ⓘ
linked to:
Meditations on First Philosophy
|
| partOfWorkBy | René Descartes ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Rationalism ⓘ |
| precedes | Meditatio sexta ⓘ |
| titleInEnglish | Fifth Meditation ⓘ |
| titleInLatin | Meditatio quinta ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
clear and distinct perceptions
ⓘ
idea of a supremely perfect being ⓘ ontological argument for God ⓘ |
| workLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
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: Meditatio quinta Description of subject: Meditatio quinta is the Latin title of René Descartes’ Fifth Meditation, in which he develops arguments for the existence of God and explores the nature of material things.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Meditatio quinta