Roman Epicureans
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Roman Epicureans were adherents of the Epicurean philosophical school in ancient Rome who adapted its teachings on pleasure, ethics, and the nature of the gods to Roman cultural and social life.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12503474 — 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: Roman Epicureans Context triple: [Philodemus, influenced, Roman Epicureans]
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School of Epicurus
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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Epicurus
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded Epicureanism, a school of thought that taught that the highest good is the pursuit of modest pleasures, tranquility, and freedom from fear through rational understanding of the world.
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Apollo Epicurius
Apollo Epicurius is an epithet of the Greek god Apollo venerated as a healer and helper, particularly associated with the sanctuary at Bassae in Arcadia.
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Epicureanism
Epicureanism is an ancient Greek philosophical school founded by Epicurus that teaches that the highest good is a life of modest pleasure, tranquility, and freedom from fear through rational understanding of the world.
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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.
- 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: Roman Epicureans Target entity description: Roman Epicureans were adherents of the Epicurean philosophical school in ancient Rome who adapted its teachings on pleasure, ethics, and the nature of the gods to Roman cultural and social life.
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A.
School of Epicurus
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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B.
Epicurus
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded Epicureanism, a school of thought that taught that the highest good is the pursuit of modest pleasures, tranquility, and freedom from fear through rational understanding of the world.
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C.
Apollo Epicurius
Apollo Epicurius is an epithet of the Greek god Apollo venerated as a healer and helper, particularly associated with the sanctuary at Bassae in Arcadia.
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D.
Epicureanism
Epicureanism is an ancient Greek philosophical school founded by Epicurus that teaches that the highest good is a life of modest pleasure, tranquility, and freedom from fear through rational understanding of the world.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.