Young Socrates
E190156
Young Socrates is a character in Plato’s dialogues, depicted as an inquisitive and promising youth engaged in philosophical discussions with Socrates and other thinkers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Young Socrates canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1685723 — 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: Young Socrates Context triple: [Statesman, featuresCharacter, Young Socrates]
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A.
Socrates' Thinkery
Socrates' Thinkery is the fictional philosophical school and absurd intellectual workshop depicted in Aristophanes' comedy "The Clouds," where Socrates leads comically exaggerated sophistic and scientific inquiries.
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B.
Echecrates
Echecrates is a Pythagorean philosopher who appears in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo" as the interlocutor to whom Phaedo recounts the final conversation and death of Socrates.
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C.
Plato; or, the Philosopher
"Plato; or, the Philosopher" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his collection "Representative Men," in which he interprets and evaluates the life, ideas, and enduring influence of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
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D.
Charmides
Charmides is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that explores the nature of temperance or self-control through a philosophical conversation between Socrates and the young Charmides.
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E.
Phaedo of Elis
Phaedo of Elis was an ancient Greek philosopher and disciple of Socrates, best known as the namesake and reported source of Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo," which recounts Socrates’ final hours and arguments for the immortality of the soul.
- 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: Young Socrates Target entity description: Young Socrates is a character in Plato’s dialogues, depicted as an inquisitive and promising youth engaged in philosophical discussions with Socrates and other thinkers.
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A.
Socrates' Thinkery
Socrates' Thinkery is the fictional philosophical school and absurd intellectual workshop depicted in Aristophanes' comedy "The Clouds," where Socrates leads comically exaggerated sophistic and scientific inquiries.
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B.
Echecrates
Echecrates is a Pythagorean philosopher who appears in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo" as the interlocutor to whom Phaedo recounts the final conversation and death of Socrates.
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C.
Plato; or, the Philosopher
"Plato; or, the Philosopher" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his collection "Representative Men," in which he interprets and evaluates the life, ideas, and enduring influence of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
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D.
Charmides
Charmides is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that explores the nature of temperance or self-control through a philosophical conversation between Socrates and the young Charmides.
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E.
Phaedo of Elis
Phaedo of Elis was an ancient Greek philosopher and disciple of Socrates, best known as the namesake and reported source of Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo," which recounts Socrates’ final hours and arguments for the immortality of the soul.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Platonic character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Late dialogues of Plato
ⓘ
surface form:
Plato's dialogue Statesman
Plato's Theaetetus ⓘ
surface form:
Plato's dialogue Theaetetus
Platonic dialogues ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
inquisitive
ⓘ
intellectually curious ⓘ promising ⓘ |
| creator | Plato ⓘ |
| dialoguePartner |
Socrates
ⓘ
Theodorus of Cyrene ⓘ
surface form:
Theodorus
Eleatic Stranger ⓘ
surface form:
the Eleatic Stranger
|
| distinguishedBy | younger age than Socrates of Athens ⓘ |
| engagesIn | philosophical discussion ⓘ |
| genre | Socratic dialogue ⓘ |
| hasNameInOriginalLanguage | Νεώτερος Σωκράτης ⓘ |
| hasRole |
interlocutor of Socrates
ⓘ
philosophical inquirer ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ |
| medium | philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
| partOf | Platonic corpus ⓘ |
| philosophicalThemeContext |
definition of the statesman
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epistemology ⓘ method of division ⓘ nature of knowledge ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
student of philosophy
ⓘ
youth ⓘ |
| sharesNameWith |
Socrates
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surface form:
Socrates of Athens
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| workLocation |
Classical Athens
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Athens (literary setting)
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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: Young Socrates Description of subject: Young Socrates is a character in Plato’s dialogues, depicted as an inquisitive and promising youth engaged in philosophical discussions with Socrates and other thinkers.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sophist