Johannes Soter
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Johannes Soter was a Renaissance-era printer and publisher known for issuing influential humanist and esoteric works in early 16th-century Europe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Johannes Soter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5444360 — 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: Johannes Soter Context triple: [De occulta philosophia libri tres, publisher, Johannes Soter]
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A.
Johannes
Johannes is the given first name of Paul Kruger, the prominent 19th-century Boer leader and president of the South African Republic.
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B.
Johannes
Johannes is the given first name of the German nuclear physicist Hans D. Jensen, a Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
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C.
Hieronymus Aleander
Hieronymus Aleander was a 16th-century Italian cardinal, humanist scholar, and papal diplomat known for his leading role in opposing Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation.
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D.
Simon Episcopius
Simon Episcopius was a leading Dutch Remonstrant theologian and successor to Jacobus Arminius, known for systematizing and defending Arminian theology against strict Calvinism in the early 17th century.
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E.
Johannes Maccovius
Johannes Maccovius was a 17th-century Polish Reformed theologian known for his influential work in scholastic Calvinism and his teaching in the Dutch Republic.
- 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: Johannes Soter Target entity description: Johannes Soter was a Renaissance-era printer and publisher known for issuing influential humanist and esoteric works in early 16th-century Europe.
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A.
Johannes
Johannes is the given first name of Paul Kruger, the prominent 19th-century Boer leader and president of the South African Republic.
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B.
Johannes
Johannes is the given first name of the German nuclear physicist Hans D. Jensen, a Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
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C.
Hieronymus Aleander
Hieronymus Aleander was a 16th-century Italian cardinal, humanist scholar, and papal diplomat known for his leading role in opposing Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation.
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D.
Simon Episcopius
Simon Episcopius was a leading Dutch Remonstrant theologian and successor to Jacobus Arminius, known for systematizing and defending Arminian theology against strict Calvinism in the early 17th century.
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E.
Johannes Maccovius
Johannes Maccovius was a 17th-century Polish Reformed theologian known for his influential work in scholastic Calvinism and his teaching in the Dutch Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Renaissance figure
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humanist printer ⓘ printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 16th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Renaissance book trade ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Renaissance ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book printing
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publishing ⓘ |
| genre |
esoteric literature
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humanist literature ⓘ |
| hasRole | issuer of influential works ⓘ |
| historicalContext | early modern European printing ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Renaissance humanism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorks | Latin (likely) ⓘ |
| medium | printed books ⓘ |
| movement | humanism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
printing esoteric works
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printing humanist works ⓘ |
| occupation |
printer
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publisher ⓘ |
| workFocus |
esoteric texts
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humanist texts ⓘ |
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: Johannes Soter Description of subject: Johannes Soter was a Renaissance-era printer and publisher known for issuing influential humanist and esoteric works in early 16th-century Europe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.