Hippias Major

E39228

Platonic dialogue Socratic dialogue

Hippias Major is a Platonic dialogue in which Socrates and the sophist Hippias attempt, and repeatedly fail, to define the nature of beauty.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Hippias Major canonical	8
Hippias	2
Hippias Maior	1
Hippias Minor	1
Plato's dialogue Hippias Major	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Platonic dialogue ⓘ Socratic dialogue ⓘ
author	Plato ⓘ
authorshipStatus	disputed ⓘ traditionally attributed to Plato ⓘ
cataloguedIn	Thrasyllan tetralogies ⓘ
centralQuestion	What is beauty itself? ⓘ What is the beautiful? ⓘ
characterRoleOfHippias	sophist ⓘ
characterRoleOfSocrates	questioner ⓘ
conclusion	no final definition of beauty is reached ⓘ
corpus	Platonic corpus ⓘ Socratic dialogues of Plato ⓘ
dialogueForm	elenchus ⓘ
ending	aporia ⓘ
examinesConcept	absolute beauty ⓘ difference between examples and essence ⓘ relativism about beauty ⓘ use of examples in definition ⓘ
featuresCharacter	Eudicus ⓘ Hippias of Elis ⓘ Socrates ⓘ
focusesOn	distinction between beautiful things and Beauty itself ⓘ
genre	aesthetic treatise ⓘ philosophical dialogue ⓘ
hasTitleInGreek	Ἱππίας μείζων ⓘ
influenced	later aesthetic theory ⓘ medieval discussions of pulchrum ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
mainTheme	beauty ⓘ
period	Classical Greek philosophy ⓘ
philosophicalApproach	dialectic ⓘ
philosophicalTopic	Socratic method ⓘ aesthetics ⓘ definition of beauty ⓘ nature of the beautiful ⓘ
preservedIn	manuscripts of Platonic dialogues ⓘ
questionsViewOf	beauty as appropriateness ⓘ beauty as pleasure ⓘ beauty as usefulness ⓘ
relatedWork	Hippias Minor ⓘ Phaedrus ⓘ Συμπόσιον ⓘ surface form: Symposium
setIn	Athens ⓘ
structure	aporetic ⓘ
style	early Platonic style (according to some scholars) ⓘ possibly later Platonic style (according to other scholars) ⓘ
traditionallyDatedTo	4th century BCE ⓘ

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: Hippias Major
Description of subject: Hippias Major is a Platonic dialogue in which Socrates and the sophist Hippias attempt, and repeatedly fail, to define the nature of beauty.

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Plato → notableWork → Hippias Major ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hippias Minor

Socratic dialogues of Plato → includesWork → Hippias Major ⓘ

Platonic corpus → containsWork → Hippias Major ⓘ

Hippias Minor → relatedWork → Hippias Major ⓘ

Thrasyllan tetralogies → includesWork → Hippias Major ⓘ

Eudicus → appearsIn → Hippias Major ⓘ

Ἱππίας μείζων → titleInLatin → Hippias Major ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hippias Maior

Ἱππίας μείζων → titleInEnglish → Hippias Major ⓘ

Ἱππίας μείζων → featuresCharacter → Hippias Major ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hippias

Ἱππίας μείζων → dialogueParticipants → Hippias Major ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hippias

Hippias of Elis → portrayedIn → Hippias Major ⓘ

this entity surface form: Plato's dialogue Hippias Major

writings of Plato → containsWork → Hippias Major ⓘ