DK
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DK is the standard scholarly abbreviation for the Diels–Kranz collection of pre-Socratic Greek philosophical fragments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DK canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3978858 — 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: DK Context triple: [Diels–Kranz collection, hasAbbreviation, DK]
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A.
DK
DK is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Denmark, a Nordic nation in Northern Europe.
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DK
DK is a British illustrated reference publisher best known for its highly visual nonfiction books for children and adults across topics like science, history, travel, and nature.
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C.
KD
KD is the widely used nickname of Kevin Durant, an elite NBA scorer and multi-time champion regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of his generation.
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D.
KD
KD is the official vehicle registration code used to identify motor vehicles registered in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
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CK
CK is a 1988 studio album by American singer Chaka Khan that blends R&B, funk, and pop with contemporary production.
- 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: DK Target entity description: DK is the standard scholarly abbreviation for the Diels–Kranz collection of pre-Socratic Greek philosophical fragments.
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A.
DK
DK is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Denmark, a Nordic nation in Northern Europe.
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B.
DK
DK is a British illustrated reference publisher best known for its highly visual nonfiction books for children and adults across topics like science, history, travel, and nature.
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C.
KD
KD is the widely used nickname of Kevin Durant, an elite NBA scorer and multi-time champion regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of his generation.
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D.
KD
KD is the official vehicle registration code used to identify motor vehicles registered in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
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E.
CK
CK is a 1988 studio album by American singer Chaka Khan that blends R&B, funk, and pop with contemporary production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
citation system
ⓘ
scholarly abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Atomism
ⓘ
surface form:
Atomists
Eleatic philosophers ⓘ Heraclitus ⓘ Milesian philosophers ⓘ Pythagoreanism ⓘ
surface form:
Pythagoreans
pre-Socratic authors and schools ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hermann Diels
ⓘ
Walther Kranz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker ⓘ |
| citesEdition |
Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker
ⓘ
surface form:
Diels–Kranz edition of pre-Socratics
|
| hasAbbreviationLanguage | German ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviationType | bibliographic abbreviation ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeDescription | Diels–Kranz numbering ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Diels
ⓘ
Kranz ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
disambiguate different fragments and testimonia
ⓘ
standardize references to pre-Socratic fragments ⓘ |
| hasNotation |
author number plus fragment letter
ⓘ
e.g. 22B12 ⓘ |
| hasStatus | standard reference system for pre-Socratics ⓘ |
| hasStructure | numbering system for authors and fragments ⓘ |
| hasTemporalContext | 20th-century classical scholarship ⓘ |
| isAbbreviationIn |
academic articles on pre-Socratics
ⓘ
reference works on ancient philosophy ⓘ scholarly apparatus of critical editions ⓘ |
| languageContext | Greek philosophy ⓘ |
| originatesFrom | German classical philology ⓘ |
| refersTo | Diels–Kranz collection ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
critical editions
ⓘ
fragment collections ⓘ textual scholarship ⓘ |
| standsFor | Diels–Kranz ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
ancient Greek philosophy
ⓘ
pre-Socratic philosophy ⓘ |
| usedBy |
classicists
ⓘ
historians of ideas ⓘ philologists ⓘ philosophers ⓘ |
| usedFor | pre-Socratic Greek philosophical fragments ⓘ |
| usedIn |
ancient philosophy scholarship
ⓘ
classical philology ⓘ history of philosophy ⓘ |
| usedToIdentify |
fragments of pre-Socratic philosophers
ⓘ
testimonia about pre-Socratic philosophers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: DK Description of subject: DK is the standard scholarly abbreviation for the Diels–Kranz collection of pre-Socratic Greek philosophical fragments.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.