Aristotle
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ancient Greek philosopher
biologist
ethicist
human
logician
metaphysician
philosopher
political philosopher
polymath
rhetorician
scientist
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and natural science profoundly shaped Western thought and intellectual history.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aristotle canonical | 431 |
| Aristotele | 1 |
| Aristotelis | 1 |
| Aristotle’s family | 1 |
| First Teacher (Aristotle) | 1 |
| the works of Aristotle | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T124145 — 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: Aristotle Context triple: [A History of Western Philosophy, discusses, Aristotle]
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A.
Plato
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, whose dialogues and ideas laid the foundations of Western philosophy.
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B.
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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C.
Parmenides
Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
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D.
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Athenian philosopher renowned as a founder of Western philosophy, known for his method of questioning and his trial and execution in Athens.
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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
- 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: Aristotle Target entity description: Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and natural science profoundly shaped Western thought and intellectual history.
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A.
Plato
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, whose dialogues and ideas laid the foundations of Western philosophy.
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B.
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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C.
Parmenides
Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
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D.
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Athenian philosopher renowned as a founder of Western philosophy, known for his method of questioning and his trial and execution in Athens.
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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 (90)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek philosopher
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biologist ⓘ ethicist ⓘ human ⓘ logician ⓘ metaphysician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ political philosopher ⓘ polymath ⓘ rhetorician ⓘ scientist ⓘ |
| birthDate | 384 BC ⓘ |
| birthName | Aristotle self-link ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Chalcidice
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Macedon ⓘ Stagira ⓘ |
| child | Nicomachus ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
|
| deathDate | 322 BC ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Chalcis
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Euboea ⓘ |
| developed |
doctrine of substance
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doctrine of the mean ⓘ hylomorphism ⓘ syllogistic logic ⓘ teleological view of nature ⓘ theory of the four causes ⓘ unmoved mover concept ⓘ virtue ethics ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Academy of Athens
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surface form:
Plato's Academy
|
| employer | Macedonian court ⓘ |
| era |
Ancient philosophy
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Classical Greek philosophy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| father |
Nicomachus
ⓘ
surface form:
Nicomachus of Stagira
|
| fieldOfWork |
biology
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epistemology ⓘ ethics ⓘ logic ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ natural science ⓘ ontology ⓘ philosophy ⓘ poetics ⓘ political theory ⓘ psychology ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ |
| founded |
Lyceum of Aristotle
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surface form:
Lyceum
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| influenced |
Alexander the Great
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Averroes ⓘ Christian theology ⓘ Islamic philosophy ⓘ Jewish philosophy ⓘ Maimonides ⓘ Theophrastus ⓘ St. Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas Aquinas
Western philosophy ⓘ medieval scholasticism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Plato
ⓘ
Presocratic philosophers ⓘ
surface form:
Pre-Socratic philosophers
Socrates ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comprehensive philosophical system
ⓘ
foundational work in formal logic ⓘ systematic treatises across many disciplines ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mother | Phaestis ⓘ |
| movement | Peripatetic school ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Alexander the Great
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Theophrastus ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Categories
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Generation of Animals ⓘ History of Animals ⓘ Metaphysics ⓘ Nicomachean Ethics ⓘ On Interpretation ⓘ On the Soul ⓘ Parts of Animals ⓘ Physics ⓘ Poetics ⓘ Politics ⓘ Posterior Analytics ⓘ Prior Analytics ⓘ Rhetoric ⓘ |
| occupation |
teacher
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tutor ⓘ |
| proposed | geocentric cosmology ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| schoolTradition | Aristotelianism ⓘ |
| spouse | Pythias ⓘ |
| studentOf | Plato ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Aristotle Description of subject: Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and natural science profoundly shaped Western thought and intellectual history.
Referenced by (436)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Georg Henrik von Wright
subject surface form:
Things in Themselves