Tabula of Cebes
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The Tabula of Cebes is an ancient Greek philosophical allegory, presented as a dialogue interpreting a symbolic picture of human life and moral progress.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tabula of Cebes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2599927 — 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: Tabula of Cebes Context triple: [Cebes of Thebes, notableWorkAttributed, Tabula of Cebes]
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Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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Tabula Bantina
Tabula Bantina is an ancient bronze tablet bearing one of the most important surviving inscriptions in the Oscan language, recording laws of a Samnite community in southern Italy.
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Papyrus 46
Papyrus 46 is one of the oldest surviving New Testament manuscripts, containing a substantial collection of Pauline epistles and serving as a key witness to the early Alexandrian text tradition.
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Papyrus 66
Papyrus 66 is an early third-century Greek manuscript of the Gospel of John, notable for its importance to New Testament textual criticism and its affiliation with the Alexandrian text-type.
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Papyrus 75
Papyrus 75 is an early 3rd-century Greek papyrus manuscript of the Gospels of Luke and John, notable for its high-quality Alexandrian text and importance for New Testament textual criticism.
- 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: Tabula of Cebes Target entity description: The Tabula of Cebes is an ancient Greek philosophical allegory, presented as a dialogue interpreting a symbolic picture of human life and moral progress.
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A.
Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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B.
Tabula Bantina
Tabula Bantina is an ancient bronze tablet bearing one of the most important surviving inscriptions in the Oscan language, recording laws of a Samnite community in southern Italy.
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C.
Papyrus 46
Papyrus 46 is one of the oldest surviving New Testament manuscripts, containing a substantial collection of Pauline epistles and serving as a key witness to the early Alexandrian text tradition.
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D.
Papyrus 66
Papyrus 66 is an early third-century Greek manuscript of the Gospel of John, notable for its importance to New Testament textual criticism and its affiliation with the Alexandrian text-type.
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E.
Papyrus 75
Papyrus 75 is an early 3rd-century Greek papyrus manuscript of the Gospels of Luke and John, notable for its high-quality Alexandrian text and importance for New Testament textual criticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
allegorical dialogue
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ancient Greek philosophical work ⓘ moral allegory ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
guide readers toward true happiness
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warn against deceptive appearances ⓘ |
| authorshipStatus |
disputed authorship
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pseudepigraphal ⓘ |
| circulatedIn |
Byzantine period
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European Renaissance ⓘ
surface form:
Renaissance Europe
late antiquity ⓘ |
| describes |
false education
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moral development ⓘ stages of human life ⓘ symbolic picture of human life ⓘ true education ⓘ |
| genre |
dialogue
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philosophical allegory ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christian moral literature
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Renaissance moral thought ⓘ early modern pedagogy ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
education of the soul
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ethics ⓘ human life ⓘ moral progress ⓘ |
| moralFocus |
choice between virtue and vice
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philosophical conversion ⓘ self-knowledge ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | dialogue interpreting a symbolic picture ⓘ |
| period | Hellenistic or early Imperial period ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Platonic tradition
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Socratic tradition ⓘ |
| preservedIn | medieval manuscripts ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Greek ethical literature
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ancient didactic allegories ⓘ |
| setting | philosophical conversation ⓘ |
| structure | description of concentric circles or enclosures ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
classics
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history of philosophy ⓘ religious studies ⓘ |
| survivingStatus | extant ⓘ |
| symbolism |
allegorical figures representing vices
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allegorical figures representing virtues ⓘ path of life as a journey ⓘ |
| traditionalAuthor | Cebes of Thebes ⓘ |
| usedAs |
didactic text
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school text ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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