Book III
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Book III is one of the thematic sections of Leon Battista Alberti’s architectural treatise *De re aedificatoria*, focusing on a specific aspect of classical architectural theory and practice.
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| Book III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8570115 — 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: Book III Context triple: [De re aedificatoria, hasPart, Book III]
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Book III
Book III is the section of John Locke’s "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" that focuses on the nature, use, and limitations of language in human knowledge.
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Book III
Book III is the final section of Newton’s *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica*, in which he applies his laws of motion and universal gravitation to explain the motions of celestial bodies and the structure of the solar system.
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Book III
Book III is the third section of Augustine’s theological treatise *On Christian Doctrine*, focusing on the principles for interpreting ambiguous or figurative passages of Scripture.
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Book III
Book III is a section of Leonardo Bruni’s historical work "History of the Florentine People," continuing his humanist narrative of Florence’s political and civic development.
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Book III
Book III is the third section of Herman Melville’s long religious-epic poem *Clarel*, continuing its exploration of faith, doubt, and spiritual crisis during a pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
- 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: Book III Target entity description: Book III is one of the thematic sections of Leon Battista Alberti’s architectural treatise *De re aedificatoria*, focusing on a specific aspect of classical architectural theory and practice.
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Book III
Book III is a section of Vitruvius’s ancient Roman architectural treatise that focuses on the principles and proportions of temple design.
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Book III
Book III is the third section of Augustine’s theological treatise *On Christian Doctrine*, focusing on the principles for interpreting ambiguous or figurative passages of Scripture.
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Book III
Book III is a section of Leonardo Bruni’s historical work "History of the Florentine People," continuing his humanist narrative of Florence’s political and civic development.
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Book III
Book III is the concluding section of Aristotle’s *Rhetoric*, focusing on style and the effective arrangement of speeches in persuasive communication.
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Book III
Book III is a section of Aristotle’s zoological treatise "History of Animals," focusing on the classification and internal anatomy of animals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book section
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part of architectural treatise ⓘ |
| author | Leon Battista Alberti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Italian ⓘ |
| belongsToWork | De re aedificatoria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Humanist scholarship ⓘ |
| field | architecture ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
classical architectural practice
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classical architectural theory ⓘ |
| genre | architectural theory ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Italian Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | ancient Roman architecture ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryForm | treatise section ⓘ |
| originalMedium | manuscript ⓘ |
| partOf | De re aedificatoria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
architectural design principles
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classical architecture ⓘ |
| tradition | Vitruvian architectural tradition ⓘ |
| workType | thematic section ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Book III Description of subject: Book III is one of the thematic sections of Leon Battista Alberti’s architectural treatise *De re aedificatoria*, focusing on a specific aspect of classical architectural theory and practice.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.