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Label	Occurrences
Greek philosophy canonical	20
Ancient Greek philosophy	11
Greco-Roman philosophy	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6375079 — 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: Greek philosophy
Context triple: [Clement of Alexandria, influencedBy, Greek philosophy]

A. Classical Greek philosophy
Classical Greek philosophy is the foundational period of Western thought, centered on figures like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, that established core ideas in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and political theory.
B. Hellenistic philosophy
Hellenistic philosophy is a diverse body of Greek thought that emerged after Alexander the Great, including schools like Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Skepticism, which focused on ethics, personal tranquility, and how to live well in a changing world.
C. Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism is an ancient Greek philosophical and religious movement founded by Pythagoras, emphasizing the mystical significance of numbers, the harmony of the cosmos, and the transmigration of souls.
D. Presocratic philosophers
Presocratic philosophers were early Greek thinkers before Socrates who sought natural and rational explanations for the cosmos, laying the foundations of Western philosophy and science.
E. Ionian school
The Ionian school was an early Greek philosophical movement centered in Ionia that sought natural, rational explanations for the cosmos and is considered a foundation of Western philosophy.
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: Greek philosophy
Target entity description: Greek philosophy is the body of ancient Greek thought that developed foundational ideas in metaphysics, ethics, logic, and natural science, profoundly shaping Western intellectual and religious traditions.

A. Classical Greek philosophy
Classical Greek philosophy is the foundational period of Western thought, centered on figures like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, that established core ideas in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and political theory.
B. Hellenistic philosophy
Hellenistic philosophy is a diverse body of Greek thought that emerged after Alexander the Great, including schools like Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Skepticism, which focused on ethics, personal tranquility, and how to live well in a changing world.
C. Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism is an ancient Greek philosophical and religious movement founded by Pythagoras, emphasizing the mystical significance of numbers, the harmony of the cosmos, and the transmigration of souls.
D. Presocratic philosophers
Presocratic philosophers were early Greek thinkers before Socrates who sought natural and rational explanations for the cosmos, laying the foundations of Western philosophy and science.
E. Ionian school
The Ionian school was an early Greek philosophical movement centered in Ionia that sought natural, rational explanations for the cosmos and is considered a foundation of Western philosophy.
F. None of above. chosen

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	intellectual tradition ⓘ philosophical tradition ⓘ
developedConcept	atomism ⓘ form and matter ⓘ logos ⓘ natural law ⓘ substance ⓘ syllogistic logic ⓘ teleology ⓘ virtue ethics ⓘ
hasCenter	Alexandria ⓘ Athens ⓘ Athens Academy ⓘ Lyceum ⓘ linked to: Lyceum of Aristotle Miletus ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Anaximander ⓘ Aristotle ⓘ Epicurus ⓘ Heraclitus ⓘ Parmenides ⓘ Plato ⓘ Plotinus ⓘ Pythagoras ⓘ Socrates ⓘ Thales of Miletus ⓘ Zeno of Citium ⓘ
hasMainLanguage	Ancient Greek ⓘ
hasOriginPlace	Ancient Greece ⓘ linked to: Greek Antiquity
hasPeriod	Classical Greek philosophy ⓘ Hellenistic philosophy ⓘ Pre-Socratic philosophy ⓘ linked to: Presocratic philosophers
hasSchool	Aristotelianism ⓘ Epicureanism ⓘ Neoplatonism ⓘ Platonism ⓘ Pythagoreanism ⓘ Skepticism ⓘ Stoicism ⓘ
hasSubdiscipline	aesthetics ⓘ epistemology ⓘ ethics ⓘ logic ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ natural philosophy ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ
influenced	Christian theology ⓘ Islamic philosophy ⓘ Jewish philosophy ⓘ Western ethics ⓘ Western logic ⓘ Western metaphysics ⓘ Western philosophy ⓘ Western science ⓘ
relatedTo	Greek literature ⓘ Greek mathematics ⓘ Greek religion ⓘ
timePeriod	circa 6th century BCE to 6th century CE ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Clement of Alexandria → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

Republic Book VI → philosophicalTradition → Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ

linked to: Greek philosophy

Paradoxes of motion → historicalPeriod → Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ

linked to: Greek philosophy

Plato's Meno → philosophicalTradition → Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ

linked to: Greek philosophy

Damascius → era → Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ

linked to: Greek philosophy

Principal Doctrines → belongsToTradition → Greek philosophy ⓘ

Maxims and Arrows → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

Beyond Good and Evil → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

subject linked to: Friedrich Nietzsche’s earlier work ‘Beyond Good and Evil’

Enumeration of the Sciences → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

The Book of Healing → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

subject linked to: The Book of Healing is a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia

On First Philosophy → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

Book Zeta → philosophicalTradition → Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ

linked to: Greek philosophy

De Interpretatione → philosophicalTradition → Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ

linked to: Greek philosophy

Book IV (Generation of Animals) → tradition → Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ

subject linked to: Book IV

linked to: Greek philosophy

Rationalism → influencedBy → Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ

linked to: Greek philosophy

Hellenistic astrology → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

The Need for Roots → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

Waiting for God → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

De Caelo → philosophicalTradition → Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ

linked to: Greek philosophy

Book I (On Generation and Corruption) → philosophicalTradition → Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ

subject linked to: Book I

linked to: Greek philosophy

Jewish thought → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

Iranian literature → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

Tahdhib al-Akhlaq → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

Hesiodic tradition → influenced → Greek philosophy ⓘ

European legal traditions → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

The History of Beyng → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

On the Ends of Good and Evil → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

Hippias’ Trojan Dialogue → associatedWith → Greek philosophy ⓘ

Against the Galileans → influencedBy → Greek philosophy ⓘ

On Nature → philosophicalTradition → Ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ

linked to: Greek philosophy

On Duty → culturalContext → Greco-Roman philosophy ⓘ

linked to: Greek philosophy

Eduard Zeller → fieldOfWork → Greek philosophy ⓘ

subject linked to: Eduard

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