Plotinus
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Plotinus was a major ancient philosopher and founder of Neoplatonism, whose metaphysical system deeply shaped later pagan, Christian, and Islamic thought.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Plotinus canonical | 38 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T281271 — 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: Plotinus Context triple: [Plato, influenced, Plotinus]
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Philo of Alexandria
Philo of Alexandria was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher of the 1st century CE who blended Jewish theology with Greek philosophy, especially Platonism and Stoicism.
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Parmenides
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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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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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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Evagrius Ponticus
Evagrius Ponticus was a 4th-century Christian monk and theologian known for his influential teachings on asceticism, prayer, and the analysis of sinful thoughts in early Eastern monasticism.
- 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: Plotinus Target entity description: Plotinus was a major ancient philosopher and founder of Neoplatonism, whose metaphysical system deeply shaped later pagan, Christian, and Islamic thought.
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A.
Philo of Alexandria
Philo of Alexandria was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher of the 1st century CE who blended Jewish theology with Greek philosophy, especially Platonism and Stoicism.
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B.
Parmenides
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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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.
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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E.
Evagrius Ponticus
Evagrius Ponticus was a 4th-century Christian monk and theologian known for his influential teachings on asceticism, prayer, and the analysis of sinful thoughts in early Eastern monasticism.
- 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: Plotinus Description of subject: Plotinus was a major ancient philosopher and founder of Neoplatonism, whose metaphysical system deeply shaped later pagan, Christian, and Islamic thought.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Intellect (Plotinus)
subject surface form:
Book 8 (The City of God)