Hermogenes

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Hermogenes is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Cratylus," where he participates in a philosophical discussion with Socrates about the correctness and nature of names.

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Label Occurrences
Hermogenes canonical 3

Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Platonic character
fictional character
appearsIn Cratylus
appearsInWorkBy Plato
associatedWithPhilosopher Plato
Socrates
associatedWithPhilosophicalTradition Ancient Greek philosophy
createdBy Plato
dialogueWith Socrates
discussesTopic conventionalism about language
correctness of names
etymology
nature of names
hasNameOrigin Ancient Greek name Hermogenes
languageOfOriginalWork Ancient Greek
literaryGenreOfWork Socratic dialogue
philosophicalPositionAttributed names are correct by convention
philosophicalPositionContrastedWith Cratylus
relatedConcept conventionalism
naturalism about language
philosophy of language
reference (philosophy of language)
semantics of names
relatedWork Euthyphro
Theaetetus
roleInWork interlocutor of Socrates
settingOfAppearance Athens
workPartOfCorpus Dialogues of Plato
surface form: Platonic dialogues

How these facts were elicited

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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: Hermogenes
Description of subject: Hermogenes is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Cratylus," where he participates in a philosophical discussion with Socrates about the correctness and nature of names.

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