School of Epicurus
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The School of Epicurus was an ancient Athenian philosophical community founded by Epicurus that taught a materialist, pleasure-centered ethics aimed at achieving tranquility and freedom from fear.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Epicurean school | 1 |
| School of Epicurus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12503435 — 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: School of Epicurus Context triple: [Philodemus, educatedAt, School of Epicurus]
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Cyrenaic school of philosophy
The Cyrenaic school of philosophy was an ancient Greek hedonistic movement, founded in Cyrene, that taught immediate physical pleasure as the highest good and the primary aim of life.
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Athenian Neoplatonic school
The Athenian Neoplatonic school was a late antique center of pagan philosophical learning in Athens that developed and taught an advanced form of Neoplatonism, integrating Plato, Aristotle, and religious theology.
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School of Socrates
The School of Socrates was the informal circle of students and followers gathered around the philosopher Socrates in classical Athens, which later gave rise to several major Socratic schools of thought.
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New Athenian School
The New Athenian School was a late 19th-century Greek literary movement that revitalized modern Greek poetry and prose through the use of demotic language and a turn toward national themes and everyday life.
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Peripatetic school
The Peripatetic school was the philosophical tradition founded by Aristotle in ancient Athens, known for its systematic inquiry into logic, metaphysics, ethics, and natural science.
- 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: School of Epicurus Target entity description: The School of Epicurus was an ancient Athenian philosophical community founded by Epicurus that taught a materialist, pleasure-centered ethics aimed at achieving tranquility and freedom from fear.
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A.
Cyrenaic school of philosophy
The Cyrenaic school of philosophy was an ancient Greek hedonistic movement, founded in Cyrene, that taught immediate physical pleasure as the highest good and the primary aim of life.
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B.
Athenian Neoplatonic school
The Athenian Neoplatonic school was a late antique center of pagan philosophical learning in Athens that developed and taught an advanced form of Neoplatonism, integrating Plato, Aristotle, and religious theology.
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C.
School of Socrates
The School of Socrates was the informal circle of students and followers gathered around the philosopher Socrates in classical Athens, which later gave rise to several major Socratic schools of thought.
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D.
New Athenian School
The New Athenian School was a late 19th-century Greek literary movement that revitalized modern Greek poetry and prose through the use of demotic language and a turn toward national themes and everyday life.
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E.
Peripatetic school
The Peripatetic school was the philosophical tradition founded by Aristotle in ancient Athens, known for its systematic inquiry into logic, metaphysics, ethics, and natural science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Epicurean school