Sophroniscus (son)
E12012
Sophroniscus was one of the sons of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, known primarily through references in classical sources to Socrates’ family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sophroniscus (son) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T117677 — 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) Context triple: [Socrates, child, Sophroniscus (son)]
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A.
Menoetius
Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
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B.
Christos
Christos is the Greek term for “anointed one,” commonly used as the title “Christ” for Jesus in Christian theology.
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C.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
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D.
Andreas
Andreas is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in various European and international cultures.
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E.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
- 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) Target entity description: Sophroniscus was one of the sons of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, known primarily through references in classical sources to Socrates’ family.
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A.
Menoetius
Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
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B.
Christos
Christos is the Greek term for “anointed one,” commonly used as the title “Christ” for Jesus in Christian theology.
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C.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
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D.
Andreas
Andreas is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in various European and international cultures.
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E.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek person
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Classical Athens ⓘ |
| describedIn | classical sources about Socrates’ family ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| familyNameOrigin | named after his grandfather Sophroniscus, father of Socrates ⓘ |
| father | Socrates ⓘ |
| floruit | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | poorly documented individual ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mother | Xanthippe ⓘ |
| name | Sophroniscus ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a son of Socrates ⓘ |
| occupation | unknown ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Athens ⓘ |
| sibling |
Lamprocles
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Menexenus (son) ⓘ
surface form:
Menexenus
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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) Description of subject: Sophroniscus was one of the sons of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, known primarily through references in classical sources to Socrates’ family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.