idiom "Midas touch"
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The idiom "Midas touch" refers to an exceptional ability to generate wealth or success from almost any venture, alluding to the mythological King Midas who turned everything he touched into gold.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| idiom "Midas touch" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12932832 — 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: idiom "Midas touch" Context triple: [King Midas, influenced, idiom "Midas touch"]
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A.
King Midas in Reverse
"King Midas in Reverse" is a 1967 baroque pop single by The Hollies, noted for its sophisticated orchestral arrangement and reflective lyrics that marked a stylistic shift for the band.
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B.
Matmid Gold
Matmid Gold is a mid-level elite status tier in EL AL's Matmid Frequent Flyer Club that offers enhanced travel benefits and rewards to frequent flyers.
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C.
Zeus as a shower of gold
Zeus as a shower of gold refers to the god’s mythological transformation into a cascade of golden light or coins to impregnate Danaë while she was imprisoned.
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D.
Words and Money
Words and Money is a critical examination of the commercialization of publishing and the media industry by editor and publisher André Schiffrin.
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E.
Money, Money, Money
"Money, Money, Money" is a 1976 pop song by Swedish group ABBA, known for its theatrical style and lyrics about dreaming of wealth to escape financial hardship.
- 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: idiom "Midas touch" Target entity description: The idiom "Midas touch" refers to an exceptional ability to generate wealth or success from almost any venture, alluding to the mythological King Midas who turned everything he touched into gold.
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A.
King Midas in Reverse
"King Midas in Reverse" is a 1967 baroque pop single by The Hollies, noted for its sophisticated orchestral arrangement and reflective lyrics that marked a stylistic shift for the band.
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B.
Matmid Gold
Matmid Gold is a mid-level elite status tier in EL AL's Matmid Frequent Flyer Club that offers enhanced travel benefits and rewards to frequent flyers.
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C.
Zeus as a shower of gold
Zeus as a shower of gold refers to the god’s mythological transformation into a cascade of golden light or coins to impregnate Danaë while she was imprisoned.
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D.
Words and Money
Words and Money is a critical examination of the commercialization of publishing and the media industry by editor and publisher André Schiffrin.
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E.
Money, Money, Money
"Money, Money, Money" is a 1976 pop song by Swedish group ABBA, known for its theatrical style and lyrics about dreaming of wealth to escape financial hardship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language expression
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idiom ⓘ |
| alludesTo | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| canAlsoImply |
almost effortless success
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supernatural-seeming luck ⓘ |
| commonCollocation |
have the Midas touch
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known for his Midas touch ⓘ lost his Midas touch ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | myth of King Midas turning everything he touched into gold ⓘ |
| etymologicalSource | legend of King Midas in classical literature ⓘ |
| hasConnotation |
business acumen
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financial success ⓘ good fortune ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
ability to make almost any venture successful
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exceptional ability to generate wealth ⓘ |
| hasPolarity | generally positive ⓘ |
| hasRegister | informal ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| oppositeConcept |
bad luck in business
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jinx ⓘ |
| partOf | English idiomatic vocabulary ⓘ |
| refersTo |
mythological King Midas
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linked to:
King Midas
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| relatedConcept |
golden touch
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good luck ⓘ prosperity ⓘ |
| typicalContext |
business
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career success ⓘ entrepreneurship ⓘ finance ⓘ |
| usedAs | metaphor for turning opportunities into profit ⓘ |
| usedToDescribe |
a person who is very successful in business
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an entrepreneur whose ventures usually succeed ⓘ an investor with consistently profitable decisions ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: idiom "Midas touch" Description of subject: The idiom "Midas touch" refers to an exceptional ability to generate wealth or success from almost any venture, alluding to the mythological King Midas who turned everything he touched into gold.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.