Henricus Stephanus
E613291
Henricus Stephanus was a prominent 16th-century French humanist printer and classical scholar, renowned for his influential editions of Greek and Latin texts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henricus Stephanus canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6715407 — 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: Henricus Stephanus Context triple: [Henri Estienne I, name, Henricus Stephanus]
-
A.
Jacobus Faber Stapulensis
Jacobus Faber Stapulensis, better known as Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, was a French humanist and theologian whose biblical and philosophical works helped pave the way for the Protestant Reformation.
-
B.
Andreas Alciatus
Andreas Alciatus was a 16th-century Italian jurist and scholar, renowned as a founder of legal humanism and for pioneering the emblem book genre.
-
C.
Johannes Crellius
Johannes Crellius was a prominent 17th-century Socinian theologian and writer associated with the Polish Brethren, known for his influential works on non-Trinitarian Christian doctrine.
-
D.
Jakob Andreae
Jakob Andreae was a 16th-century German Lutheran theologian and church leader who played a key role in shaping post-Reformation Lutheran doctrine.
-
E.
Nikolaus Episcopius
Nikolaus Episcopius was a 16th-century Basel printer and publisher who continued the influential humanist printing tradition established by Johann Froben.
- 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: Henricus Stephanus Target entity description: Henricus Stephanus was a prominent 16th-century French humanist printer and classical scholar, renowned for his influential editions of Greek and Latin texts.
-
A.
Jacobus Faber Stapulensis
Jacobus Faber Stapulensis, better known as Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, was a French humanist and theologian whose biblical and philosophical works helped pave the way for the Protestant Reformation.
-
B.
Andreas Alciatus
Andreas Alciatus was a 16th-century Italian jurist and scholar, renowned as a founder of legal humanism and for pioneering the emblem book genre.
-
C.
Johannes Crellius
Johannes Crellius was a prominent 17th-century Socinian theologian and writer associated with the Polish Brethren, known for his influential works on non-Trinitarian Christian doctrine.
-
D.
Jakob Andreae
Jakob Andreae was a 16th-century German Lutheran theologian and church leader who played a key role in shaping post-Reformation Lutheran doctrine.
-
E.
Nikolaus Episcopius
Nikolaus Episcopius was a 16th-century Basel printer and publisher who continued the influential humanist printing tradition established by Johann Froben.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
classical scholar
ⓘ
early modern publisher ⓘ human ⓘ humanist ⓘ printer ⓘ |
| birthYear | c. 1528 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1598 ⓘ |
| employer | Estienne family printing house ⓘ |
| era | 16th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Estienne ⓘ |
| father | Robert Estienne ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Greek language
ⓘ
Latin literature ⓘ classical philology ⓘ textual criticism ⓘ |
| genre |
lexicography
ⓘ
scholarly editions ⓘ |
| influenced |
editors of Greek texts
ⓘ
later classical philologists ⓘ |
| knownFor |
critical editions of Greek and Latin authors
ⓘ
major Greek lexicon Thesaurus Graecae Linguae ⓘ standard pagination of Plato’s works (Stephanus pagination) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
ⓘ
Greek ⓘ Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Estienne family of printers
ⓘ
linked to:
Robert Estienne
|
| movement | Renaissance humanism ⓘ |
| name |
Henri Estienne
ⓘ
linked to:
Henri Estienne the Elder
Henri II Estienne ⓘ
linked to:
Henri Estienne the Elder
Henricus Stephanus ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
established a standard reference system for citing Plato’s works
ⓘ
produced one of the most comprehensive Greek lexicons of his time ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Editions of Herodotus
ⓘ
linked to:
works of Herodotus
Editions of Plato ⓘ Editions of Thucydides ⓘ Editions of the Greek New Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Stephanus’s Greek New Testament
Thesaurus Graecae Linguae ⓘ |
| occupation |
lexicographer
ⓘ
philologist ⓘ printer ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Geneva
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
|
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: Henricus Stephanus Description of subject: Henricus Stephanus was a prominent 16th-century French humanist printer and classical scholar, renowned for his influential editions of Greek and Latin texts.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.