Quintilian
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Quintilian was a renowned 1st-century Roman rhetorician and educator best known for his influential work "Institutio Oratoria," which shaped Western rhetorical theory and pedagogy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quintilian canonical | 15 |
| Marcus Fabius Quintilianus | 1 |
| Quintilianus | 1 |
| Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1715925 — 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: Quintilian Context triple: [Livy, influenced, Quintilian]
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Cicero
Cicero was a renowned Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher whose speeches and writings profoundly influenced Latin literature and Western political thought.
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Gaius Terentius Varro
Gaius Terentius Varro was a Roman consul and military commander best known for co-leading the Roman forces that suffered a devastating defeat to Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae during the Second Punic War.
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C.
Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger was a prominent Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwright who served as advisor to Emperor Nero and authored influential works on ethics and practical wisdom.
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Seneca
The Seneca are a Native American people of the Iroquoian language family, historically based in what is now western New York and known as one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
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E.
Sallust
Sallust was a Roman historian and politician of the late Republic, best known for his monographs on the Catilinarian Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War, which pioneered a concise and morally charged style of historical writing.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Quintilian Target entity description: Quintilian was a renowned 1st-century Roman rhetorician and educator best known for his influential work "Institutio Oratoria," which shaped Western rhetorical theory and pedagogy.
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A.
Cicero
Cicero was a renowned Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher whose speeches and writings profoundly influenced Latin literature and Western political thought.
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B.
Gaius Terentius Varro
Gaius Terentius Varro was a Roman consul and military commander best known for co-leading the Roman forces that suffered a devastating defeat to Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae during the Second Punic War.
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C.
Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger was a prominent Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwright who served as advisor to Emperor Nero and authored influential works on ethics and practical wisdom.
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D.
Seneca
The Seneca are a Native American people of the Iroquoian language family, historically based in what is now western New York and known as one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
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E.
Sallust
Sallust was a Roman historian and politician of the late Republic, best known for his monographs on the Catilinarian Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War, which pioneered a concise and morally charged style of historical writing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman
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author ⓘ person ⓘ rhetorician ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 35 CE ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Calagurris
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Calahorra ⓘ Tarraconensis ⓘ
surface form:
Hispania Tarraconensis
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| cognomen |
Quintilian
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Quintilianus
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| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | c. 96 CE ⓘ |
| employer | Roman state ⓘ |
| era |
1st century CE
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Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ |
| familyName |
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
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surface form:
Fabius
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| fieldOfWork |
education
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oratory ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ |
| fullName |
Quintilian
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
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| genre |
educational treatise
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rhetorical theory ⓘ |
| givenName | Marcus ⓘ |
| influenced |
Renaissance humanist education
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Western rhetorical theory ⓘ medieval rhetorical education ⓘ rhetorical pedagogy in Europe ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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Cicero ⓘ Roman rhetorical tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Latin ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
moral education of the orator
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training the ideal orator ⓘ |
| name | Quintilian self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Institutio oratoria
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surface form:
Institutio Oratoria
Institutio oratoria ⓘ
surface form:
Institutio Oratoria libri duodecim
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| occupation |
author
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rhetorician ⓘ teacher of rhetoric ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcept |
the good man skilled in speaking
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vir bonus dicendi peritus ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
imperial professor of rhetoric
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public teacher of rhetoric ⓘ teacher in Rome ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Flavian dynasty
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reign of Domitian ⓘ reign of Vespasian ⓘ |
| workLocation | Rome ⓘ |
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Subject: Quintilian Description of subject: Quintilian was a renowned 1st-century Roman rhetorician and educator best known for his influential work "Institutio Oratoria," which shaped Western rhetorical theory and pedagogy.
Referenced by (18)
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