Theophrastus
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Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle’s successor as head of the Lyceum, renowned for his influential works in logic, ethics, and especially botany.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Theophrastus canonical | 20 |
| Theophrastus of Eresus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T698225 — 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.
Target entity: Theophrastus Context triple: [Presocratic philosophers, documentedBy, Theophrastus]
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Chrysippus of Soli
Chrysippus of Soli was a foundational Greek Stoic philosopher whose prolific writings and systematic thought shaped Stoicism into a major Hellenistic school.
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Posidonius of Apamea
Posidonius of Apamea was a prominent Hellenistic philosopher, polymath, and influential later Stoic thinker whose work bridged Stoicism with contemporary science, history, and geography.
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Dorotheus
Dorotheus was a 6th-century Byzantine jurist who helped systematize and codify Roman law under Emperor Justinian I.
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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.
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Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Theophrastus Target entity description: Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle’s successor as head of the Lyceum, renowned for his influential works in logic, ethics, and especially botany.
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A.
Chrysippus of Soli
Chrysippus of Soli was a foundational Greek Stoic philosopher whose prolific writings and systematic thought shaped Stoicism into a major Hellenistic school.
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B.
Posidonius of Apamea
Posidonius of Apamea was a prominent Hellenistic philosopher, polymath, and influential later Stoic thinker whose work bridged Stoicism with contemporary science, history, and geography.
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C.
Dorotheus
Dorotheus was a 6th-century Byzantine jurist who helped systematize and codify Roman law under Emperor Justinian I.
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D.
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.
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E.
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aristotle’s successor
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Peripatetic philosopher ⓘ ancient Greek philosopher ⓘ botanist ⓘ ethicist ⓘ logician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| alias |
Theophrastus
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surface form:
Theophrastus of Eresus
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| birthDate | c. 371 BC ⓘ |
| birthName | Tyrtamus ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Aegean islands
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surface form:
Aegean Islands
Eresus ⓘ Lesbos ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| deathDate | c. 287 BC ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Athens ⓘ |
| educatedBy |
Aristotle
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Plato ⓘ |
| era | Hellenistic philosophy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biology
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botany ⓘ ethics ⓘ grammar ⓘ logic ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ meteorology ⓘ mineralogy ⓘ philosophy ⓘ physics (natural philosophy) ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
botanical treatise
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character sketches ⓘ ethical treatise ⓘ logical treatise ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hellenistic botany
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Renaissance naturalists ⓘ Strato of Lampsacus ⓘ later Peripatetic philosophers ⓘ medieval botany ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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Plato ⓘ |
| knownAs | “father of botany” ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Lyceum of Aristotle
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surface form:
Lyceum
Peripatetic school ⓘ |
| name | Theophrastus self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Characters
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Enquiry into Plants ⓘ Metaphysics (On First Principles) ⓘ On Fire ⓘ On Odours ⓘ On Plants (corpus of botanical treatises) ⓘ On Stones ⓘ On Winds ⓘ On the Causes of Plants ⓘ On the Senses ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Peripatetic school ⓘ |
| positionHeld | head of the Lyceum ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
ancient biographical traditions
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scholarly studies in history of botany ⓘ |
| succeeded | Aristotle ⓘ |
| wroteInLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
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Referenced by (21)
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