On Rewards and Punishments (De praemiis et poenis)
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On Rewards and Punishments (De praemiis et poenis) is a philosophical and exegetical treatise by Philo of Alexandria exploring divine justice, moral retribution, and the consequences of virtue and vice in a Hellenistic Jewish framework.
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| On Rewards and Punishments (De praemiis et poenis) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23245310 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On Rewards and Punishments (De praemiis et poenis) Context triple: [corpus of Philo of Alexandria, containsWork, On Rewards and Punishments (De praemiis et poenis)]
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Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus
Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus is the Latin civic motto of Belfast, traditionally translated as “What shall we give in return for so much?”
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B.
Summa de casibus poenitentiae
Summa de casibus poenitentiae is a 13th-century manual of moral theology and canon law that systematically guides confessors through various cases of conscience and penitential practice.
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C.
De iustitia (On Justice)
De iustitia (On Justice) is the fifth book of Lactantius’s early Christian apologetic work *Divinae Institutiones*, in which he systematically examines the nature of true justice in contrast to pagan moral and religious beliefs.
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D.
On the Special Laws (De specialibus legibus)
On the Special Laws (De specialibus legibus) is a philosophical and exegetical treatise by Philo of Alexandria that interprets and systematizes the specific commandments of the Mosaic Law through the lens of Hellenistic Jewish thought.
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E.
Adversus Ethicos
Adversus Ethicos is a work by the ancient skeptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus that critically examines and challenges ethical doctrines and moral philosophies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On Rewards and Punishments (De praemiis et poenis) Target entity description: On Rewards and Punishments (De praemiis et poenis) is a philosophical and exegetical treatise by Philo of Alexandria exploring divine justice, moral retribution, and the consequences of virtue and vice in a Hellenistic Jewish framework.
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A.
Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus
Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus is the Latin civic motto of Belfast, traditionally translated as “What shall we give in return for so much?”
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B.
Summa de casibus poenitentiae
Summa de casibus poenitentiae is a 13th-century manual of moral theology and canon law that systematically guides confessors through various cases of conscience and penitential practice.
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C.
De iustitia (On Justice)
De iustitia (On Justice) is the fifth book of Lactantius’s early Christian apologetic work *Divinae Institutiones*, in which he systematically examines the nature of true justice in contrast to pagan moral and religious beliefs.
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D.
On the Special Laws (De specialibus legibus)
On the Special Laws (De specialibus legibus) is a philosophical and exegetical treatise by Philo of Alexandria that interprets and systematizes the specific commandments of the Mosaic Law through the lens of Hellenistic Jewish thought.
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E.
Adversus Ethicos
Adversus Ethicos is a work by the ancient skeptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus that critically examines and challenges ethical doctrines and moral philosophies.
- F. None of above. chosen
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