Book 8
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Book 8 of Pliny the Elder’s *Naturalis Historia* is the section devoted primarily to the description and classification of animals, especially land mammals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Book 8 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22406355 — 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 8 Context triple: [Naturalis Historia, hasPart, Book 8]
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Book 8
Book 8 is a section of Augustine’s *The City of God* that focuses on the philosophies of the ancient pagans and their relationship to true wisdom and the worship of the one God.
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Book VIII
Book VIII is a section of Aristotle’s zoological treatise "History of Animals" that continues his systematic observations and classifications of animal life.
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Book VIII
Book VIII is a section of Vitruvius’ ancient Roman architectural treatise De architectura that focuses primarily on water supply, aqueducts, and related hydraulic engineering.
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Book VIII
Book VIII is one of the later volumes of Leonardo Bruni’s humanist historical work *History of the Florentine People*, continuing his account of Florence’s political and civic life.
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Book VIII
Book VIII is a section of Euclid’s *Elements* that focuses on number theory, particularly geometric progressions and properties of proportional numbers.
- 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 8 Target entity description: Book 8 of Pliny the Elder’s *Naturalis Historia* is the section devoted primarily to the description and classification of animals, especially land mammals.
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A.
Book 8
Book 8 is a section of Augustine’s *The City of God* that focuses on the philosophies of the ancient pagans and their relationship to true wisdom and the worship of the one God.
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B.
Book VIII
Book VIII is a section of Vitruvius’ ancient Roman architectural treatise De architectura that focuses primarily on water supply, aqueducts, and related hydraulic engineering.
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C.
Book VIII
Book VIII is a section of Aristotle’s zoological treatise "History of Animals" that continues his systematic observations and classifications of animal life.
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D.
Book VIII
Book VIII is one of the later volumes of Leonardo Bruni’s humanist historical work *History of the Florentine People*, continuing his account of Florence’s political and civic life.
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E.
Book VIII
Book VIII is a section of Plato’s Republic in which Socrates analyzes the decline of ideal political constitutions through successive corrupt forms of government and corresponding character types.
- F. None of above. chosen
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