Xocrates
E345578
Xocrates is a character in Xenophon’s philosophical dialogue "Symposium," depicted as one of the participants in the work’s discussions on love and virtue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Xocrates canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3287929 — 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: Xocrates Context triple: [Xenophon’s Symposium, featuresCharacter, Xocrates]
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A.
Menoetius
Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
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B.
Cebes of Thebes
Cebes of Thebes was an ancient Greek philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, and a prominent interlocutor in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo."
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C.
Conon of Athens
Conon of Athens was a prominent Athenian admiral and statesman of the late 5th and early 4th centuries BC, known especially for rebuilding Athens’ naval power after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
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D.
Kerykes
Kerykes was an important Athenian priestly family closely associated with the sacred rites and hereditary offices of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
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E.
Philoxenus of Mabbug
Philoxenus of Mabbug was a prominent 5th–6th century Syriac Christian bishop and theologian known for his influential Miaphysite writings and biblical commentaries.
- 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: Xocrates Target entity description: Xocrates is a character in Xenophon’s philosophical dialogue "Symposium," depicted as one of the participants in the work’s discussions on love and virtue.
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A.
Menoetius
Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
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B.
Cebes of Thebes
Cebes of Thebes was an ancient Greek philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, and a prominent interlocutor in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo."
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C.
Conon of Athens
Conon of Athens was a prominent Athenian admiral and statesman of the late 5th and early 4th centuries BC, known especially for rebuilding Athens’ naval power after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
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D.
Kerykes
Kerykes was an important Athenian priestly family closely associated with the sacred rites and hereditary offices of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
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E.
Philoxenus of Mabbug
Philoxenus of Mabbug was a prominent 5th–6th century Syriac Christian bishop and theologian known for his influential Miaphysite writings and biblical commentaries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a philosophical dialogue
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Xenophon ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Classical Greek literature ⓘ |
| discussesTheme |
love
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virtue ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
Xenophon’s Symposium
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surface form:
Symposium (Xenophon)
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| workGenreContext | philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
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: Xocrates Description of subject: Xocrates is a character in Xenophon’s philosophical dialogue "Symposium," depicted as one of the participants in the work’s discussions on love and virtue.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.