Timaeus
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Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Timaeus canonical | 13 |
| Plato's Timaeus | 3 |
| Timaeus (dialogue) | 3 |
| Platonic corpus | 2 |
| Plato’s dialogue Timaeus | 2 |
| Platonic dialogue Timaeus | 1 |
| Timaeus–Critias | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T281240 — 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: Timaeus Context triple: [Plato, notableWork, Timaeus]
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A.
Phaedo
Phaedo is a Platonic dialogue that recounts the final hours and philosophical discussions of Socrates before his execution.
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B.
Crito
Crito is an ancient Athenian friend and devoted follower of Socrates, best known from Plato’s dialogues for urging Socrates to escape his death sentence.
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C.
Apology of Socrates
Apology of Socrates is a Platonic dialogue that presents Socrates’ defense speech at his trial in Athens, exploring themes of justice, wisdom, and the examined life.
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D.
La Mort de Socrate
La Mort de Socrate is the original French title of Jacques-Louis David’s famous 1787 Neoclassical painting depicting the philosopher Socrates calmly accepting his death by hemlock.
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E.
Xenophon's Apology of Socrates
Xenophon's Apology of Socrates is a Socratic dialogue in which the historian Xenophon presents an alternative account of Socrates' defense speech and character at his trial, distinct from Plato's more famous version.
- 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: Timaeus Target entity description: Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
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A.
Phaedo
Phaedo is a Platonic dialogue that recounts the final hours and philosophical discussions of Socrates before his execution.
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B.
Crito
Crito is an ancient Athenian friend and devoted follower of Socrates, best known from Plato’s dialogues for urging Socrates to escape his death sentence.
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C.
Apology of Socrates
Apology of Socrates is a Platonic dialogue that presents Socrates’ defense speech at his trial in Athens, exploring themes of justice, wisdom, and the examined life.
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D.
La Mort de Socrate
La Mort de Socrate is the original French title of Jacques-Louis David’s famous 1787 Neoclassical painting depicting the philosopher Socrates calmly accepting his death by hemlock.
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E.
Xenophon's Apology of Socrates
Xenophon's Apology of Socrates is a Socratic dialogue in which the historian Xenophon presents an alternative account of Socrates' defense speech and character at his trial, distinct from Plato's more famous version.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Platonic dialogue
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| author | Plato ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
Demiurge
ⓘ
Platonism ⓘ
surface form:
Platonic Forms
four elements ⓘ receptacle ⓘ world soul ⓘ |
| cosmologicalModel |
geocentric universe
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living cosmos as a single animal ⓘ |
| dialogueForm | monologue by Timaeus ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Critias
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Hermocrates ⓘ Socrates ⓘ |
| genre | philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christian theology
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Hellenistic philosophy ⓘ Islamic philosophy ⓘ Middle Platonism ⓘ Neoplatonism ⓘ Renaissance philosophy ⓘ medieval cosmology ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Timaeus of Locri ⓘ |
| openingContext | follow-up to the Republic’s ideal city ⓘ |
| period | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| philosophicalTheme |
mathematical structure of reality
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relationship between reason and necessity ⓘ status of likely stories ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Platonism ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Critias
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Parmenides ⓘ Republic ⓘ Sophists ⓘ
surface form:
Sophist
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| setting | Athens ⓘ |
| structure |
account of the human body
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account of the world soul ⓘ cosmological myth ⓘ prologue with Socrates ⓘ |
| subject |
cosmology
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creation of the universe ⓘ divine craftsman ⓘ elements and geometrical atoms ⓘ nature of the physical world ⓘ order of the universe ⓘ soul of the world ⓘ structure of the cosmos ⓘ teleology ⓘ time and eternity ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Timaeus Description of subject: Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Plato's Timaeus
subject surface form:
Ion (dialogue)
this entity surface form:
Platonic corpus
subject surface form:
Parmenides (dialogue)
subject surface form:
Late Plato
this entity surface form:
Plato's Timaeus
this entity surface form:
Plato’s dialogue Timaeus
this entity surface form:
Platonic dialogue Timaeus
this entity surface form:
Timaeus (dialogue)
this entity surface form:
Timaeus (dialogue)
this entity surface form:
Timaeus (dialogue)
this entity surface form:
Timaeus–Critias
this entity surface form:
Plato's Timaeus