Instauratio Magna
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Instauratio Magna is Francis Bacon’s ambitious, unfinished philosophical project outlining a new system of knowledge and scientific method intended to reform and advance learning.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Instauratio Magna canonical | 4 |
| Francis Bacon's Great Instauration project | 1 |
| Great Instauration | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T993777 — 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: Instauratio Magna Context triple: [Novum Organum, partOf, Instauratio Magna]
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A.
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church is a 1520 theological treatise by Martin Luther that sharply criticizes the Roman Catholic sacramental system and helped define key doctrines of the Protestant Reformation.
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B.
Concilio et Labore
Concilio et Labore is the Latin motto of Manchester City Council, traditionally translated as "By wisdom and effort" or "By counsel and hard work."
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C.
De seculo et religione
De seculo et religione is a humanist treatise by Coluccio Salutati that explores the relationship between secular life and religious devotion in late medieval Italy.
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D.
Deus sive Natura
Deus sive Natura is Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical conception of God as identical with the single, all-encompassing substance of nature and reality.
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E.
Novum Instrumentum omne
Novum Instrumentum omne is Desiderius Erasmus’s groundbreaking 1516 edition of the New Testament in Greek with a new Latin translation, which significantly influenced biblical scholarship and the Protestant Reformation.
- 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: Instauratio Magna Target entity description: Instauratio Magna is Francis Bacon’s ambitious, unfinished philosophical project outlining a new system of knowledge and scientific method intended to reform and advance learning.
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A.
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church is a 1520 theological treatise by Martin Luther that sharply criticizes the Roman Catholic sacramental system and helped define key doctrines of the Protestant Reformation.
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B.
Concilio et Labore
Concilio et Labore is the Latin motto of Manchester City Council, traditionally translated as "By wisdom and effort" or "By counsel and hard work."
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C.
De seculo et religione
De seculo et religione is a humanist treatise by Coluccio Salutati that explores the relationship between secular life and religious devotion in late medieval Italy.
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D.
Deus sive Natura
Deus sive Natura is Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical conception of God as identical with the single, all-encompassing substance of nature and reality.
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E.
Novum Instrumentum omne
Novum Instrumentum omne is Desiderius Erasmus’s groundbreaking 1516 edition of the New Testament in Greek with a new Latin translation, which significantly influenced biblical scholarship and the Protestant Reformation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
philosophical work
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project ⓘ unfinished work ⓘ |
| aim |
establishment of a new method of inquiry
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reconstruction of the sciences ⓘ reform of learning ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Baconian method
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empiricism ⓘ |
| author | Francis Bacon ⓘ |
| authorialIntention | to provide a new organon to replace Aristotle’s Organon ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
empirical investigation
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inductive method ⓘ rejection of purely scholastic reasoning ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| critiques |
Aristotelianism
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surface form:
Aristotelian logic
scholasticism ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophical treatise
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programmatic work ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Distributio Operis
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Novum Organum ⓘ Parasceve ad Historiam Naturalem et Experimentalem ⓘ Plan of the Work ⓘ Preface ⓘ |
| hasPrefaceBy | Francis Bacon ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | foundational text of Bacon’s reform of the sciences ⓘ |
| influenced |
Enlightenment thought
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modern scientific method ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Aristotelian philosophy ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| period | early modern period ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| printingFormat | folio ⓘ |
| proposedPart |
Anticipations of the Second Philosophy
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Ladder of the Intellect ⓘ Natural and Experimental History ⓘ Second Philosophy ⓘ |
| proposes |
gradual ascent from observations to axioms
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reorganization of all branches of knowledge ⓘ systematic collection of natural and experimental histories ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1620 ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Novum Organum
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The Advancement of Learning ⓘ |
| status | unfinished ⓘ |
| subject |
epistemology
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philosophy of science ⓘ scientific method ⓘ |
| titleTranslation |
Instauratio Magna
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Great Instauration
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Referenced by (6)
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this entity surface form:
Francis Bacon's Great Instauration project
this entity surface form:
Great Instauration