Συμπόσιον

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Ancient Greek literary work Platonic dialogue philosophical dialogue

Συμπόσιον is the original Ancient Greek title of Plato’s philosophical dialogue commonly known in English as the Symposium, which explores the nature of love through a series of speeches at a banquet.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Symposium	19
Συμπόσιον canonical	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T583318 — 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: Συμπόσιον
Context triple: [Plato's Symposium, titleInGreek, Συμπόσιον]

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F. None of above. chosen
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NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Συμπόσιον
Target entity description: Συμπόσιον is the original Ancient Greek title of Plato’s philosophical dialogue commonly known in English as the Symposium, which explores the nature of love through a series of speeches at a banquet.

A. The Pleased
The Pleased was an indie rock band from San Francisco known for featuring harpist-singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom as a member early in her career.
B. Agon
Agon is a groundbreaking 1957 neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to a score by Igor Stravinsky, noted for its abstract structure and innovative use of movement and music.
C. Vespers
Vespers is an evening prayer service in the Byzantine Rite, marking the liturgical beginning of the day with psalms, hymns, and incense.
D. Fratres omnes
Fratres omnes is the Latin title of Pope Francis’s 2020 encyclical Fratelli tutti, which reflects on fraternity, social friendship, and global solidarity.
E. The Palestra
The Palestra is a historic college basketball arena on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, renowned as one of the most storied and frequently used venues in the sport.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Ancient Greek literary work ⓘ Platonic dialogue ⓘ philosophical dialogue ⓘ
approximateDateOfComposition	4th century BCE ⓘ
author	Plato ⓘ
centralConcept	Eros as a daimon ⓘ philosophical love of wisdom ⓘ
containsDoctrine	ascent to the Form of Beauty ⓘ ladder of love ⓘ
dialogueForm	dramatic dialogue ⓘ
featuresCharacter	Agathon ⓘ Alcibiades ⓘ Aristophanes ⓘ Diotima of Mantinea ⓘ surface form: Diotima Eryximachus ⓘ Pausanias ⓘ Phaedrus ⓘ Socrates ⓘ
genre	Socratic dialogue ⓘ philosophical dialogue ⓘ
hasForm	framed narrative ⓘ
hasReception	commentaries in late antiquity ⓘ extensive modern scholarship ⓘ
influenced	Christian philosophical conceptions of love ⓘ Renaissance philosophy ⓘ later theories of love in Western philosophy ⓘ modern aesthetics ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
literaryForm	symposium literature ⓘ
locationInPlot	house of Agathon in Athens ⓘ
mainTheme	love ⓘ Eros (primordial) ⓘ surface form: ἔρως (eros)
narrator	Apollodorus of Athens ⓘ surface form: Apollodorus
occasionInPlot	celebration of Agathon’s victory in a tragedy competition ⓘ
philosophicalSchool	Platonism ⓘ
philosophicalTopic	beauty ⓘ immortality ⓘ nature of love ⓘ virtue ⓘ
placeOfComposition	Athens ⓘ
relatedWorkByAuthor	Πολιτεία (Republic) ⓘ Phaedo ⓘ surface form: Φαίδων (Phaedo) Phaedrus ⓘ surface form: Φαῖδρος (Phaedrus)
setting	banquet in Athens ⓘ
settingPeriod	Classical Athens ⓘ
structure	series of speeches in praise of Eros ⓘ
titleInAncientGreek	Συμπόσιον self-link ⓘ
titleInEnglish	Συμπόσιον self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Symposium
workInPlatoCorpus	middle dialogues ⓘ

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