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Ontoterminology · version 1.0

Ancient Greek and Chinese Philosophers

People, schools and texts across the ancient world.

Portrait of Plato, copy after Silanion
Plato, copy after Silanion. Marie-Lan Nguyen · CC BY 2.5.
Historical painted portrait of Confucius
Confucius, Yuan-dynasty painting. National Palace Museum · public domain.

Explore all 665 philosopher records through time, place and intellectual relationships.

Who lived when?

Each mark is a recorded century, not a lifespan. Search by name or filter by school; select a row to inspect the person.

617 records have centuryOfLiving; 48 do not. Each century is shown separately. No year zero is used. Missing centuries are kept visible, including records that contain only birth/death strings.

Where are the connections?

Birthplaces and places of residence, using coordinates stored in the RDF. Choose a place to see its linked people.

106 of 108 linked places have coordinates. Qufu and Lu remain in the menu without map markers. Positions reproduce the deposited values; the modern basemap is contextual. No travel routes are inferred.

Teachers, pupils and works

Teacher–pupil pairs combine explicit pupilOf and teacherOf statements, with duplicates removed. Links describe the RDF, not independently verified historical relationships. Missing data does not mean no relationship existed.

Dataset Info
665Philosopher records
19Recorded affiliations
108Linked places
102Linked authored works

Counts calculated from Philosophers.rdf, Zenodo version 1.0. Affiliations use memberOfPhilosophicalSchool only; work counts use authorOf.

Source caveat: Aspasius is classified as Ancient-Chinese-Philosopher in this export. The page retains that classification and flags it in the record. Dates are not repaired or inferred.

Source: Zenodo record and files

Overview

An ontoterminology of philosophers, schools, places and texts. It records authorship, mentions of people, and teacher–pupil relationships.

Developed from earlier work in the KELKIP.

Scope
Period coveredRecorded per philosopher as a century of activity rather than as a single range.
RegionAncient Greece and China
Modelled asOntoterminology
LanguagesEnglish, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Mandarin Chinese
Built withTedi ontoTerminology Editor. See TEDI documentation
SourcesPhilosophical corpus with Perseus references; extends work from the KELKIP project
Access the data

Query it through the SPARQL endpoint using this named graph:

https://triplestore.talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr:8890/datasets/Ancient-Greek-Chinese-Philosophers-v1

Ways in

The .otb file opens in TEDI; the .rdf file opens in Protégé, and can be visualised with WebVOWL.

Example queries

Which Ancient Greek philosophers were born or stayed in Athens?

Returns names, schools and recorded centuries for philosophers born or resident in Athens. Missing schools and centuries remain visible.

PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX ont: <http://www.ontologia.fr/OTB/Philosophers#>
PREFIX otv: <http://www.ontologia.fr/OTB/otv#>
SELECT DISTINCT ?name ?school ?century
FROM <https://triplestore.talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr:8890/datasets/Ancient-Greek-Chinese-Philosophers-v1>
WHERE {
  ?x otv:instanceOf ont:Ancient-Greek-Philosopher ;
     (ont:birthPlace|ont:stayedIn) ont:athens ;
     otv:denotedByProperName ?pn .
  ?pn otv:language "en" ; otv:properName ?name .
  OPTIONAL { ?x ont:memberOfPhilosophicalSchool ?s .
    ?s otv:denotedByProperName ?sn .
    ?sn otv:language "en" ; otv:properName ?school . }
  OPTIONAL { ?x ont:centuryOfLiving ?t . ?t rdfs:label ?century . }
}
ORDER BY ?name

The property path combines birthplace and residence without equating them. DISTINCT removes duplicate result rows.

Size & structure
Concepts16
Terms33
Proper names2,131
Objects937
Logical axioms16,169
Classes30
Individuals3,230
Object properties33
Data properties6
Citation & licence

Cite as

Giannadakis, R., Papadopoulou, M., & Roche, C. (2024).
Ontoterminology of Ancient Greek and Chinese Philosophers - version 1.0 (Version 1.0) [Dataset].
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13372136

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13372136

Licence

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Funding

European Commission, TALOS AI4SSH, grant agreement 101087269.

Credits

Rafail GiannadakisData curator
ORCID 0009-0009-6708-4396
Maria PapadopoulouSupervisor
ORCID 0000-0001-6451-8712
Christophe RocheSupervisor
ORCID 0000-0002-0756-0559

Department of Philology, University of Crete