Ten Books on Architecture
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Ten Books on Architecture is the common English title of Vitruvius’s influential 1st-century BCE treatise that laid the foundations of Western architectural theory and practice.
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| Ten Books on Architecture canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8229476 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ten Books on Architecture Context triple: [De architectura, alsoKnownAs, Ten Books on Architecture]
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A.
A Book of Architecture
A Book of Architecture is an influential 18th-century pattern book by James Gibbs that helped shape British and colonial architectural design through its plates of classical buildings and details.
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B.
Livro da Arquitetura
Livro da Arquitetura is an experimental, neo-concrete artist’s book by Brazilian artist Lygia Pape that explores the spatial and structural possibilities of the book form as an architectural object.
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C.
In the Cause of Architecture
"In the Cause of Architecture" is a collection of essays by Frank Lloyd Wright articulating his principles of organic architecture and his critique of conventional architectural practice.
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D.
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
The Seven Lamps of Architecture is an influential 1849 book by John Ruskin that sets out moral and aesthetic principles for architecture, emphasizing truth, beauty, and craftsmanship in building design.
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E.
On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change is a book by critic Ada Louise Huxtable that gathers her influential essays and reviews examining the evolution of architecture and the built environment over the twentieth century and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ten Books on Architecture Target entity description: Ten Books on Architecture is the common English title of Vitruvius’s influential 1st-century BCE treatise that laid the foundations of Western architectural theory and practice.
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A.
A Book of Architecture
A Book of Architecture is an influential 18th-century pattern book by James Gibbs that helped shape British and colonial architectural design through its plates of classical buildings and details.
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B.
Livro da Arquitetura
Livro da Arquitetura is an experimental, neo-concrete artist’s book by Brazilian artist Lygia Pape that explores the spatial and structural possibilities of the book form as an architectural object.
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C.
In the Cause of Architecture
"In the Cause of Architecture" is a collection of essays by Frank Lloyd Wright articulating his principles of organic architecture and his critique of conventional architectural practice.
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D.
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
The Seven Lamps of Architecture is an influential 1849 book by John Ruskin that sets out moral and aesthetic principles for architecture, emphasizing truth, beauty, and craftsmanship in building design.
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E.
On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change is a book by critic Ada Louise Huxtable that gathers her influential essays and reviews examining the evolution of architecture and the built environment over the twentieth century and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
ancient Roman work
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architectural treatise ⓘ |
| author | Vitruvius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conceptIntroduced |
firmitas
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utilitas ⓘ venustas ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describes |
Composite order
NERFINISHED
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Corinthian order NERFINISHED ⓘ Doric order NERFINISHED ⓘ Ionic order NERFINISHED ⓘ Tuscan order NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field |
architecture
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art theory ⓘ engineering ⓘ urban planning ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | Ten Books on Architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Book I
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Book II NERFINISHED ⓘ Book III NERFINISHED ⓘ Book IV NERFINISHED ⓘ Book IX NERFINISHED ⓘ Book V NERFINISHED ⓘ Book VI NERFINISHED ⓘ Book VII NERFINISHED ⓘ Book VIII NERFINISHED ⓘ Book X NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Andrea Palladio
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Leon Battista Alberti NERFINISHED ⓘ Renaissance architecture ⓘ Western architectural theory ⓘ classical architectural education ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Latin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
aqueducts
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architectural design principles ⓘ building materials ⓘ city planning ⓘ construction techniques ⓘ machines and engineering devices ⓘ proportion in architecture ⓘ temple design ⓘ theatre design ⓘ |
| numberOfBooks | 10 ⓘ |
| originalTitle | De architectura NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preservedAs | manuscript tradition ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 1st century BCE ⓘ |
| rediscovered | Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | prose treatise ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | late Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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