Cleinias
E192534
Cleinias is a young Athenian nobleman who serves as the central interlocutor and philosophical pupil of Socrates in Plato’s dialogue *Euthydemus*.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1685816 — 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: Cleinias Context triple: [Euthydemus, featuresCharacter, Cleinias]
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A.
Eucleia
Eucleia is a minor Greek goddess associated with good repute, glory, and the honor that comes from virtuous conduct.
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B.
Phaenarete
Phaenarete was an Athenian midwife best known as the mother of the philosopher Socrates.
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C.
Phasaelis
Phasaelis was a Nabatean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV, best known as the first wife of Herod Antipas whose repudiation of her led to political and military conflict.
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D.
Aglaea
Aglaea is a Greek goddess associated with beauty and splendor, one of the three Graces (Charites) in classical mythology.
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E.
Celaeno
Celaeno is one of the Pleiad nymphs in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione.
- 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: Cleinias Target entity description: Cleinias is a young Athenian nobleman who serves as the central interlocutor and philosophical pupil of Socrates in Plato’s dialogue *Euthydemus*.
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A.
Eucleia
Eucleia is a minor Greek goddess associated with good repute, glory, and the honor that comes from virtuous conduct.
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B.
Phaenarete
Phaenarete was an Athenian midwife best known as the mother of the philosopher Socrates.
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C.
Phasaelis
Phasaelis was a Nabatean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV, best known as the first wife of Herod Antipas whose repudiation of her led to political and military conflict.
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D.
Aglaea
Aglaea is a Greek goddess associated with beauty and splendor, one of the three Graces (Charites) in classical mythology.
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E.
Celaeno
Celaeno is one of the Pleiad nymphs in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek literary character
ⓘ
character in Plato's dialogues ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| ageInFiction | young man ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Euthydemus ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dionysodorus
ⓘ
surface form:
Dionysodorus (character)
Euthydemus (sophist) ⓘ
surface form:
Euthydemus (character)
Socrates ⓘ |
| citizenshipInFiction | Athens ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Euthydemus (sophist)
ⓘ
surface form:
sophists Euthydemus and Dionysodorus
|
| createdBy | Plato ⓘ |
| dialogueAuthor | Plato ⓘ |
| educationalRoleInText | student figure ⓘ |
| hasDialogueForm | question-and-answer ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | Socratic dialogue ⓘ |
| medium | written dialogue ⓘ |
| nameInGreek | Κλεινίας ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
exemplifies the educability of youth
ⓘ
serves as target of sophistic argumentation ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchoolContext | Socratic philosophy ⓘ |
| philosophicalThemeContext |
eristic versus genuine philosophy
ⓘ
virtue and wisdom ⓘ |
| primaryActivityInDialogue |
answering Socrates' questions
ⓘ
engaging in philosophical conversation ⓘ |
| roleInEuthydemus |
central interlocutor
ⓘ
philosophical pupil of Socrates ⓘ |
| socialStatusInFiction | Athenian nobleman ⓘ |
| timeOfFictionalSetting | classical Athens ⓘ |
| workSetting | Athens ⓘ |
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: Cleinias Description of subject: Cleinias is a young Athenian nobleman who serves as the central interlocutor and philosophical pupil of Socrates in Plato’s dialogue *Euthydemus*.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Euthydemus
this entity surface form:
Clinias
this entity surface form:
Clinias
this entity surface form:
Clinias