Clinomachus
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Clinomachus was an ancient Greek philosopher associated with the Megarian school, known for his work on logic and dialectics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clinomachus canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T618769 — 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: Clinomachus Context triple: [Euclid of Megara, taught, Clinomachus]
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Agelastes
Agelastes is a small genus of African guineafowl known for its relatively plain, dark plumage and forest-dwelling habits.
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B.
Acanthisitti
Acanthisitti is a small, ancient suborder of New Zealand wrens considered among the most basal and evolutionarily distinct lineages of passerine birds.
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C.
Phaenarete
Phaenarete was an Athenian midwife best known as the mother of the philosopher Socrates.
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D.
Hesperethusa
Hesperethusa is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, known for species such as Hesperethusa crenulata (also called Limonia crenulata) that are native to South and Southeast Asia.
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E.
Scillus
Scillus was an ancient town in Elis, Greece, notable as the place where the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon lived in exile and wrote some of his works.
- 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: Clinomachus Target entity description: Clinomachus was an ancient Greek philosopher associated with the Megarian school, known for his work on logic and dialectics.
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A.
Agelastes
Agelastes is a small genus of African guineafowl known for its relatively plain, dark plumage and forest-dwelling habits.
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B.
Acanthisitti
Acanthisitti is a small, ancient suborder of New Zealand wrens considered among the most basal and evolutionarily distinct lineages of passerine birds.
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C.
Phaenarete
Phaenarete was an Athenian midwife best known as the mother of the philosopher Socrates.
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D.
Hesperethusa
Hesperethusa is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family Rutaceae, known for species such as Hesperethusa crenulata (also called Limonia crenulata) that are native to South and Southeast Asia.
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E.
Scillus
Scillus was an ancient town in Elis, Greece, notable as the place where the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon lived in exile and wrote some of his works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek philosopher
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logician ⓘ person ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | ancient Greek logic ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Megarian school ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ancient Greece
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linked to:
Greek Antiquity
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| culture | Greek ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dialectics
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logic ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influenced | later Megarian logicians ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Socratic tradition
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linked to:
Classical Greek philosophy
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| languageOfWorkOrName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| movement | Megarian philosophy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
work on dialectics
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work on logic ⓘ |
| occupation | philosopher ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Socratic school
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linked to:
School of Socrates
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| placeOfActivity | Greece ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Classical antiquity ⓘ |
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: Clinomachus Description of subject: Clinomachus was an ancient Greek philosopher associated with the Megarian school, known for his work on logic and dialectics.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.