Parmenides
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Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Parmenides canonical | 41 |
| Parmenides of Elea | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T117660 — 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: Parmenides Context triple: [Socrates, influencedBy, Parmenides]
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A.
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
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B.
Euclid of Megara
Euclid of Megara was an ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the Megarian school, known for combining Socratic ethics with Eleatic logic and dialectical methods.
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C.
Plato
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, whose dialogues and ideas laid the foundations of Western philosophy.
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D.
Antisthenes
Antisthenes was an ancient Greek philosopher, a pupil of Socrates and a key forerunner of Cynicism known for his advocacy of virtue, self-sufficiency, and ascetic living.
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E.
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Athenian philosopher renowned as a founder of Western philosophy, known for his method of questioning and his trial and execution in Athens.
- 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: Parmenides Target entity description: Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
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A.
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
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B.
Euclid of Megara
Euclid of Megara was an ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the Megarian school, known for combining Socratic ethics with Eleatic logic and dialectical methods.
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C.
Plato
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, whose dialogues and ideas laid the foundations of Western philosophy.
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D.
Antisthenes
Antisthenes was an ancient Greek philosopher, a pupil of Socrates and a key forerunner of Cynicism known for his advocacy of virtue, self-sufficiency, and ascetic living.
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E.
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Athenian philosopher renowned as a founder of Western philosophy, known for his method of questioning and his trial and execution in Athens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ancient Greek philosopher
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metaphysician ⓘ pre-Socratic philosopher ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Elea ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Elea ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| countryOfOrigin |
ancient Italy
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surface form:
Ancient Italy (Magna Graecia)
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| discussedBy |
Aristotle
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Plotinus ⓘ Simplicius of Cilicia ⓘ |
| era |
Classical Greece
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surface form:
Classical antiquity
Pre-Socratic philosophy ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influenced |
Aristotle
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Melissus of Samos ⓘ Neoplatonism ⓘ Plato ⓘ Western metaphysics ⓘ Zeno of Elea ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Xenophanes of Colophon
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surface form:
Xenophanes
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| knownFor |
doctrine that reality is unchanging
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poem "On Nature" ⓘ view that change is illusory ⓘ view that plurality is illusory ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
epistemology
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logic ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ ontology ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Plato's dialogue "Parmenides"
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Plato's dialogue "Sophist" ⓘ Socratic dialogues of Plato ⓘ
surface form:
Plato's dialogue "Theaetetus"
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| notableIdea |
Being is one, ungenerated, and imperishable
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denial of void and non-being ⓘ distinction between the way of truth and the way of opinion ⓘ rejection of sensory experience as a guide to truth ⓘ |
| opposedView |
Heraclitean doctrine of flux
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belief in plurality of beings ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcept |
impossibility of what-is-not
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necessity of what-is ⓘ the One (single unchanging reality) ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Eleatic school ⓘ |
| philosophicalStance |
monism
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rationalism ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Magna Graecia ⓘ |
| survivingWorkForm | fragments ⓘ |
| teacherOf | Zeno of Elea ⓘ |
| textForm | didactic hexameter poem ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| work |
On Nature
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surface form:
"On Nature"
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Subject: Parmenides Description of subject: Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Parmenides of Elea
subject surface form:
On Nature
subject surface form:
Parmenides (dialogue)
subject surface form:
Parmenides (dialogue)
subject surface form:
Parmenides (dialogue)
this entity surface form:
Parmenides of Elea
subject surface form:
Sophist
subject surface form:
Late Plato
this entity surface form:
Parmenides of Elea