Proclus
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Proclus was a prominent 5th-century Neoplatonist philosopher best known for his systematic commentaries on Plato and for shaping later pagan and Christian metaphysical thought.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Proclus canonical | 19 |
| Proclus Lycaeus | 1 |
| Proclus the Successor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1700459 — 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: Proclus Context triple: [Plotinus, influenced, Proclus]
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A.
Simplicius of Cilicia
Simplicius of Cilicia was a 6th-century Neoplatonist philosopher and commentator whose detailed exegeses on Aristotle and Presocratic thinkers, including Parmenides, are key sources for ancient Greek philosophy.
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Iamblichus of Chalcis
Iamblichus of Chalcis was a Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic whose synthesis of Platonic thought with religious ritual and theurgy profoundly shaped later pagan and Christian philosophy.
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Xenocrates
Xenocrates was a prominent ancient Greek philosopher who led Plato’s Academy and significantly developed Platonic and early Academic thought.
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Numenius of Apamea
Numenius of Apamea was a 2nd-century Platonist philosopher whose synthesis of Platonism with Pythagorean and Eastern religious ideas helped lay important groundwork for later Neoplatonism.
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Alexander of Alexandria
Alexander of Alexandria was a 4th-century Patriarch of Alexandria best known for his staunch defense of Nicene orthodoxy and his early opposition to the teachings of Arius.
- 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: Proclus Target entity description: Proclus was a prominent 5th-century Neoplatonist philosopher best known for his systematic commentaries on Plato and for shaping later pagan and Christian metaphysical thought.
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A.
Simplicius of Cilicia
Simplicius of Cilicia was a 6th-century Neoplatonist philosopher and commentator whose detailed exegeses on Aristotle and Presocratic thinkers, including Parmenides, are key sources for ancient Greek philosophy.
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B.
Iamblichus of Chalcis
Iamblichus of Chalcis was a Neoplatonist philosopher and mystic whose synthesis of Platonic thought with religious ritual and theurgy profoundly shaped later pagan and Christian philosophy.
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C.
Xenocrates
Xenocrates was a prominent ancient Greek philosopher who led Plato’s Academy and significantly developed Platonic and early Academic thought.
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D.
Numenius of Apamea
Numenius of Apamea was a 2nd-century Platonist philosopher whose synthesis of Platonism with Pythagorean and Eastern religious ideas helped lay important groundwork for later Neoplatonism.
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E.
Alexander of Alexandria
Alexander of Alexandria was a 4th-century Patriarch of Alexandria best known for his staunch defense of Nicene orthodoxy and his early opposition to the teachings of Arius.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Proclus Description of subject: Proclus was a prominent 5th-century Neoplatonist philosopher best known for his systematic commentaries on Plato and for shaping later pagan and Christian metaphysical thought.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nostoi
this entity surface form:
Proclus the Successor