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    "schema": "prokopton42-public-thinker-v1",
    "id": "confucius",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/confucius/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Confucius",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "A teacher of humane conduct, ritual attention and practiced judgment, reconstructed from the posthumous Analects without pretending that the collection is his autobiography.",
    "body": "Traditional year of Confucius' death. The Analects are an authorized posthumous carrier, not a diary or autograph.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "traditionally 551-479 BCE; details transmitted by later sources",
        "era": "Classical Antiquity",
        "distance": "about 2,504 years ago",
        "age_at_death": null
    },
    "intellectual_tradition": {
        "id": "chinese-thought",
        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
        "detail": "Early Chinese ethical and political thought",
        "labels": [
            "Early Chinese thought",
            "Early Chinese ethical and political thought"
        ]
    },
    "historical_cutoff": {
        "year": -479,
        "display": "479 BCE",
        "reason": "Traditional year of Confucius' death. The Analects are an authorized posthumous carrier, not a diary or autograph."
    },
    "statistics": {
        "works": 1,
        "passages": 20,
        "languages": [
            "en",
            "fr",
            "lzh"
        ],
        "intellectual_exposures": 2,
        "typed_relationships": 3
    },
    "attested_thinker_encounters": [],
    "places": [
        {
            "name": "Qufu / Lu",
            "period": "traditional 551-479 BCE",
            "description": "Traditional birthplace and principal setting in Lu, known through later biography and transmitted texts.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%AB%96%E8%AA%9E"
        },
        {
            "name": "States of the Central Plain",
            "period": "traditional years of travel",
            "description": "Later traditions describe travel among courts. No route is treated as a certain first-person itinerary.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%AB%96%E8%AA%9E"
        },
        {
            "name": "Dingzhou",
            "period": "1st century BCE manuscript context",
            "description": "Archaeological context of a Han Analects witness. It documents transmission, not a journey by Confucius.",
            "confidence": "A",
            "source_url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%AB%96%E8%AA%9E"
        },
        {
            "name": "Wei",
            "period": "traditional itinerant years",
            "description": "A major stop in the later transmitted itinerary.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/confucius/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Song",
            "period": "traditional itinerant years",
            "description": "Later biography places Confucius in Song.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/confucius/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Chen",
            "period": "traditional itinerant years",
            "description": "Later biography places Confucius in Chen.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/confucius/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Cai",
            "period": "traditional itinerant years",
            "description": "Later biography places Confucius in Cai.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/confucius/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Chu",
            "period": "traditional itinerant years",
            "description": "Later biography extends the itinerary toward Chu.",
            "confidence": "D",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/confucius/"
        }
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