Book I
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Book I is the first of the four books of Peter Lombard’s medieval theological work "Sentences," laying foundational discussions of God, the Trinity, and divine attributes.
All labels observed (1)
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| Book I canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4092797 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Book I Context triple: [Commentary on the Sentences, hasPart, Book I]
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Book I
Book I is the first section of Hugo Grotius’s seminal work *De iure belli ac pacis*, in which he lays out the foundational principles of natural law and just war theory.
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Book I
Book I is the opening section of Augustine’s monumental Christian philosophical work *The City of God*, in which he begins responding to pagan criticisms of Christianity after the sack of Rome.
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Book I
Book I is the opening section of John Locke’s "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," in which he challenges the doctrine of innate ideas and lays the groundwork for his empiricist theory of knowledge.
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Book I
Book I is the first section of Isaac Newton’s *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica*, laying out the mathematical foundations of classical mechanics and the laws of motion.
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Book I
Book I is the opening section of John Gower’s Middle English poem *Vox Clamantis*, which introduces the work’s moral and political reflections on 14th-century English society.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Book I Target entity description: Book I is the first of the four books of Peter Lombard’s medieval theological work "Sentences," laying foundational discussions of God, the Trinity, and divine attributes.
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Book I
Book I is the opening section of Lactantius’s early Christian apologetic work *Divine Institutes*, laying foundational arguments about God, religion, and pagan error.
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B.
Book I
Book I is the opening section of Augustine’s monumental Christian philosophical work *The City of God*, in which he begins responding to pagan criticisms of Christianity after the sack of Rome.
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Book I
Book I is the first section of Isaac Newton’s *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica*, laying out the mathematical foundations of classical mechanics and the laws of motion.
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Book I
Book I is the first section of Hugo Grotius’s seminal work *De iure belli ac pacis*, in which he lays out the foundational principles of natural law and just war theory.
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Book I
Book I is the opening section of Nicolaus Copernicus’s "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium," where he lays out the foundational principles of his heliocentric model of the cosmos.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
part of book
ⓘ
theological work ⓘ |
| author | Peter Lombard ⓘ |
| belongsToWorkType | medieval theological summa ⓘ |
| commentedOnBy | numerous scholastic theologians ⓘ |
| concerns |
distinction of divine persons
ⓘ
divine foreknowledge ⓘ divine omnipotence ⓘ divine omniscience ⓘ divine simplicity ⓘ divine will ⓘ predestination ⓘ problem of evil ⓘ unity of God ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Book II of the Sentences
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surface form:
Book II (Peter Lombard's Sentences)
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| follows | none (first book) ⓘ |
| genre | scholastic theology ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | standard theological textbook in the high Middle Ages ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bonaventure
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Duns Scotus ⓘ St. Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas Aquinas
late medieval scholasticism ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
God
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Trinity ⓘ divine attributes ⓘ doctrine of God ⓘ |
| method | scholastic question-and-answer ⓘ |
| numberOfBooksInWork | 4 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Peter Lombard’s Sentences
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surface form:
Sentences (Peter Lombard)
|
| positionInSeries | 1 ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Catholic Church worldwide
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surface form:
Catholic Church
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| sourceType | compilation of patristic authorities ⓘ |
| structure | collection of theological sententiae (sentences) ⓘ |
| studiedBy | medieval university students ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
Trinitarian theology
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natural theology ⓘ systematic theology ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 12th century ⓘ |
| tradition | Latin Christian theology ⓘ |
| usedAs | textbook in medieval universities ⓘ |
| usesSourcesFrom |
Ambrose of Milan
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Augustine of Hippo ⓘ Gregory the Great ⓘ Jerome ⓘ |
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Subject: Book I Description of subject: Book I is the first of the four books of Peter Lombard’s medieval theological work "Sentences," laying foundational discussions of God, the Trinity, and divine attributes.
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