Pausanias
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Pausanias is an Athenian intellectual and lover of the poet Agathon who delivers a nuanced speech on the nature of love in Plato’s Symposium.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pausanias canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T583332 — 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: Pausanias Context triple: [Plato's Symposium, featuresCharacter, Pausanias]
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A.
Plutarch
Plutarch was a Greek biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist philosopher best known for his "Parallel Lives" and "Moralia," which profoundly influenced later historiography and literature.
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B.
Posidonius of Apamea
Posidonius of Apamea was a prominent Hellenistic philosopher, polymath, and influential later Stoic thinker whose work bridged Stoicism with contemporary science, history, and geography.
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C.
Herodotus
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian, often called the "Father of History," known for writing the seminal work "Histories" that chronicles the Greco-Persian Wars and various cultures of the ancient world.
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D.
Dorotheus
Dorotheus was a 6th-century Byzantine jurist who helped systematize and codify Roman law under Emperor Justinian I.
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E.
Cassius Dio
Cassius Dio was a Roman statesman and historian best known for his extensive work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome from its legendary origins through the early 3rd century CE.
- 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: Pausanias Target entity description: Pausanias is an Athenian intellectual and lover of the poet Agathon who delivers a nuanced speech on the nature of love in Plato’s Symposium.
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A.
Plutarch
Plutarch was a Greek biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist philosopher best known for his "Parallel Lives" and "Moralia," which profoundly influenced later historiography and literature.
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B.
Posidonius of Apamea
Posidonius of Apamea was a prominent Hellenistic philosopher, polymath, and influential later Stoic thinker whose work bridged Stoicism with contemporary science, history, and geography.
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C.
Herodotus
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian, often called the "Father of History," known for writing the seminal work "Histories" that chronicles the Greco-Persian Wars and various cultures of the ancient world.
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D.
Dorotheus
Dorotheus was a 6th-century Byzantine jurist who helped systematize and codify Roman law under Emperor Justinian I.
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E.
Cassius Dio
Cassius Dio was a Roman statesman and historian best known for his extensive work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome from its legendary origins through the early 3rd century CE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ancient Greek character
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Fictional character ⓘ Platonic dialogue character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Συμπόσιον
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surface form:
Symposium
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| associatedWith |
Agathon
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Alcibiades ⓘ Aristophanes ⓘ Eryximachus ⓘ Phaedrus ⓘ Socrates ⓘ |
| citizenship | Athens ⓘ |
| creator | Plato ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Athenian pederasty ⓘ |
| describedAs | Athenian intellectual ⓘ |
| dialogueBy | Plato ⓘ |
| discusses |
Eros (primordial)
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surface form:
Eros
Ethical norms of love ⓘ Pederastic relationships ⓘ Social conventions about love in Athens ⓘ |
| gender | Male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | Philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
| hasViewOn |
Difference between love of body and love of soul
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Education of the young through love ⓘ Legal regulation of love ⓘ |
| inUniverse |
Socratic dialogues of Plato
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surface form:
Platonic dialogues
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| knownFor |
Distinction between Common Love and Heavenly Love
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Speech on the nature of love ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| loverOf | Agathon ⓘ |
| moralView |
Love is good only when directed toward virtue
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Lovers and beloveds should aim at moral improvement ⓘ |
| name | Pausanias ⓘ |
| occupation | Athenian intellectual ⓘ |
| partner | Agathon ⓘ |
| philosophicalTheme |
Distinction between noble and base love
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Ethics of love ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | Sophisticated interpreter of Athenian law and custom ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithAgathon | Erastes ⓘ |
| residence | Athens ⓘ |
| roleInWork | Symposium speaker ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Banquet at Agathon’s house ⓘ |
| speechOrderInSymposium | Second speaker ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Classical Athens ⓘ |
| topicOf |
Plato's Symposium
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surface form:
Pausanias’ speech in the Symposium
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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: Pausanias Description of subject: Pausanias is an Athenian intellectual and lover of the poet Agathon who delivers a nuanced speech on the nature of love in Plato’s Symposium.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
House of Agathon in Athens
subject surface form:
Eirene