Manners Makyth Man

E41233

moral maxim motto proverb

Manners Makyth Man is the historic moral maxim emphasizing the importance of good conduct and character, famously associated with Winchester College.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Manners Makyth Man canonical	4
"Manners maketh man"	1
Manners makyth man	1

Statements (40)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	moral maxim ⓘ motto ⓘ proverb ⓘ
appearsOn	New College, Oxford ⓘ surface form: New College, Oxford arms Winchester College arms ⓘ
associatedWith	New College, Oxford ⓘ Winchester College ⓘ
associatedWithPerson	William of Wykeham ⓘ
category	English proverbs ⓘ ethical sayings ⓘ school mottos ⓘ
coinedBy	William of Wykeham ⓘ
emphasizes	importance of character ⓘ importance of good conduct ⓘ moral behavior ⓘ
hasCulturalRegion	England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
hasLanguage	Middle English ⓘ
hasModernForm	Manners make the man ⓘ
hasOriginalSpelling	Manners Makyth Man self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Manners makyth man
hasOriginCentury	14th century ⓘ
hasTheme	character formation ⓘ courtesy ⓘ moral education ⓘ personal virtue ⓘ social conduct ⓘ
influencedInstitutionalIdentityOf	New College, Oxford ⓘ Winchester College ⓘ
moralClaim	a person is defined by their manners ⓘ external behavior reflects inner character ⓘ
relatedConcept	character education ⓘ etiquette ⓘ moral philosophy ⓘ social norms ⓘ virtue ethics ⓘ
usedAsMottoBy	New College, Oxford ⓘ Winchester College ⓘ
usedInContext	British public schools ⓘ education ⓘ moral instruction ⓘ

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: Manners Makyth Man
Description of subject: Manners Makyth Man is the historic moral maxim emphasizing the importance of good conduct and character, famously associated with Winchester College.

Referenced by (6)

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

Winchester College → motto → Manners Makyth Man ⓘ

St Edward's School, Oxford → hasMotto → Manners Makyth Man ⓘ

Manners Makyth Man → hasOriginalSpelling → Manners Makyth Man self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Manners makyth man

New College, Oxford → hasMotto → Manners Makyth Man ⓘ

Brasenose College, Oxford → motto → Manners Makyth Man ⓘ

Galahad → signatureLine → Manners Makyth Man ⓘ

subject surface form: Galahad (Harry Hart)

this entity surface form: "Manners maketh man"