Nestor
E105623
Nestor is the wise and elderly king of Pylos in Greek mythology, renowned for his counsel to heroes in Homer's epics.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nestor canonical | 57 |
| King Nestor | 1 |
| Nestor (Ancient Greek name) | 1 |
| Nestor (son of Neleus) | 1 |
| Nestor the Gerenian | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T896651 — 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: Nestor Context triple: [Telemachus, meets, Nestor]
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A.
Hyginus
Hyginus was a Latin author and mythographer, traditionally identified as Gaius Julius Hyginus, known for compiling and preserving numerous Greek and Roman myths and celestial stories.
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B.
Apulo
Apulo is a small municipality and tourist town in the Cundinamarca Department of central Colombia, known for its warm climate and recreational resorts.
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C.
Aristaeus
Aristaeus is a minor Greek god associated with agriculture, beekeeping, and pastoral pursuits, often revered as a culture hero who taught humans various rural arts.
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D.
Cirón
Cirón is a river in southwestern France known for flowing through the Sauternes wine region, where its cool misty microclimate helps produce the area’s famous sweet wines.
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E.
Alcinous
Alcinous is the wise and hospitable king of the Phaeacians in Greek mythology who shelters and aids Odysseus on his journey home.
- 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: Nestor Target entity description: Nestor is the wise and elderly king of Pylos in Greek mythology, renowned for his counsel to heroes in Homer's epics.
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A.
Hyginus
Hyginus was a Latin author and mythographer, traditionally identified as Gaius Julius Hyginus, known for compiling and preserving numerous Greek and Roman myths and celestial stories.
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B.
Apulo
Apulo is a small municipality and tourist town in the Cundinamarca Department of central Colombia, known for its warm climate and recreational resorts.
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C.
Aristaeus
Aristaeus is a minor Greek god associated with agriculture, beekeeping, and pastoral pursuits, often revered as a culture hero who taught humans various rural arts.
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D.
Cirón
Cirón is a river in southwestern France known for flowing through the Sauternes wine region, where its cool misty microclimate helps produce the area’s famous sweet wines.
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E.
Alcinous
Alcinous is the wise and hospitable king of the Phaeacians in Greek mythology who shelters and aids Odysseus on his journey home.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Nestor Description of subject: Nestor is the wise and elderly king of Pylos in Greek mythology, renowned for his counsel to heroes in Homer's epics.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Elector Joachim I Nestor of Brandenburg
subject linked to:
Nostoi (Returns)
linked to: Nestor
linked to: Nestor
subject linked to:
oath of Tyndareus
linked to: Nestor