Pindar

E106316

ancient Greek lyric poet person

Pindar was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his victory odes celebrating athletic triumphs in the Panhellenic games.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Pindar canonical	64
Pindaros	2
Pindar (indirectly, via references to the Heliadae)	1
Pindar, Olympian Odes	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T869683 — 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: Pindar
Context triple: [the Muses, invokedBy, Pindar]

A. Anacreon
Anacreon was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his songs celebrating love, wine, and revelry.
B. Hesiod
Hesiod was an early ancient Greek poet, often considered a founder of Greek didactic poetry, known for works such as the Theogony and Works and Days that shaped Greek mythology and moral thought.
C. Pindar's odes
Pindar's odes are a collection of ancient Greek lyric poems, especially victory songs, renowned for their complex style, mythological allusions, and celebration of athletic triumphs.
D. Aeschylus
Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian, often called the father of tragedy, known for pioneering dramatic structure and writing plays such as the Oresteia trilogy.
E. Timotheus
Timotheus is the Latin form of the given name Timothy, historically used in ecclesiastical, scholarly, and classical contexts.
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: Pindar
Target entity description: Pindar was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his victory odes celebrating athletic triumphs in the Panhellenic games.

A. Anacreon
Anacreon was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his songs celebrating love, wine, and revelry.
B. Hesiod
Hesiod was an early ancient Greek poet, often considered a founder of Greek didactic poetry, known for works such as the Theogony and Works and Days that shaped Greek mythology and moral thought.
C. Pindar's odes
Pindar's odes are a collection of ancient Greek lyric poems, especially victory songs, renowned for their complex style, mythological allusions, and celebration of athletic triumphs.
D. Aeschylus
Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian, often called the father of tragedy, known for pioneering dramatic structure and writing plays such as the Oresteia trilogy.
E. Timotheus
Timotheus is the Latin form of the given name Timothy, historically used in ecclesiastical, scholarly, and classical contexts.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek lyric poet ⓘ person ⓘ
associatedWithEvent	Isthmian Games ⓘ Nemean Games ⓘ Olympic Games ⓘ Pythian Games ⓘ
canonization	one of the nine lyric poets of the Alexandrian canon ⓘ
contemporaryOf	Aeschylus ⓘ Bacchylides ⓘ Simonides of Ceos ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Ancient Greece ⓘ linked to: Greek Antiquity
dateOfBirth	circa 518 BC ⓘ
dateOfDeath	circa 438 BC ⓘ
educatedIn	Athens ⓘ Thebes ⓘ
genre	choral lyric poetry ⓘ epinician ode ⓘ
influenced	English Pindaric ode writers ⓘ Horace ⓘ Quintilian ⓘ Renaissance lyric poets ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Ancient Greek ⓘ
mainTheme	aristocratic virtue ⓘ athletic victory ⓘ human mortality ⓘ piety toward the gods ⓘ
movement	Archaic Greek poetry ⓘ
nativeLanguage	Ancient Greek ⓘ
notableWork	Isthmian Odes ⓘ linked to: Pindar's odes Nemean Odes ⓘ linked to: Pindar's odes Olympian Odes ⓘ linked to: Pindar's odes Pythian Odes ⓘ linked to: Pindar's odes
occupation	lyric poet ⓘ poet ⓘ
patron	Arcesilas IV of Cyrene ⓘ Hieron I of Syracuse ⓘ Theron of Acragas ⓘ linked to: Theron of Akragas various aristocratic families ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Cynoscephalae ⓘ near Thebes ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Argos ⓘ
regionOfOrigin	Boeotia ⓘ
studentOf	Lasus of Hermione ⓘ
styleCharacteristic	complex metrical structures ⓘ dense mythological allusion ⓘ elevated and gnomic language ⓘ
subjectOf	Pindaric ode tradition ⓘ
workFocus	mythological narratives ⓘ praise of athletes and patrons ⓘ victory odes for athletic games ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (68)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

the Muses → invokedBy → Pindar ⓘ

Hesiod → influenced → Pindar ⓘ

Gigantomachy → sourceMention → Pindar ⓘ

Roy Vagelos → givenName → Pindaros ⓘ

linked to: Pindar

Pindar's odes → creator → Pindar ⓘ

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff → notableWork → Pindaros ⓘ

linked to: Pindar

Works of Hesiod → usedAsSourceBy → Pindar ⓘ

Myrtilus → mentionedBy → Pindar ⓘ

The Progress of Poesy → inspiredBy → Pindar ⓘ

Thebes → producedPerson → Pindar ⓘ

Tyro → mentionedBy → Pindar ⓘ

Nemean lion myth → earliestSources → Pindar ⓘ

Rhode → mentionedIn → Pindar, Olympian Odes ⓘ

linked to: Pindar

Epigoni → describedIn → Pindar ⓘ

The Apotheosis of Homer → depicts → Pindar ⓘ

Chiron → sourceInLiterature → Pindar ⓘ

Abraham Cowley → influencedBy → Pindar ⓘ

Aeacus → source → Pindar ⓘ

Pirithous → literarySource → Pindar ⓘ

Peleus → mentionedBy → Pindar ⓘ

Pierre de Ronsard → influencedBy → Pindar ⓘ

Pelops → literarySource → Pindar ⓘ

Corinna → associatedWith → Pindar ⓘ

land of the Golden Fleece → mentionedBy → Pindar ⓘ

Friedrich Hölderlin → influencedBy → Pindar ⓘ

John Tzetzes → usedSources → Pindar ⓘ

Odes → influencedBy → Pindar ⓘ

spring of Arethusa → mentionedBy → Pindar ⓘ

Deinomenid dynasty → patronOf → Pindar ⓘ

Deinomenid family → patronage → Pindar ⓘ

Eurytus → literarySource → Pindar ⓘ

Cynoscephalae → notablePersonBornHere → Pindar ⓘ

Lasus of Hermione → influenced → Pindar ⓘ

Bacchylides → contemporaryOf → Pindar ⓘ

Bacchylides → comparedTo → Pindar ⓘ

Hieron I of Syracuse → patronOf → Pindar ⓘ

Arcesilas IV of Cyrene → associatedWith → Pindar ⓘ

Arcesilas IV of Cyrene → patronOf → Pindar ⓘ

Simonides of Ceos → influenced → Pindar ⓘ

Diagoras of Rhodes → describedBySource → Pindar ⓘ

Gregory Nagy → researchInterest → Pindar ⓘ

Otus → mythologicalSource → Pindar ⓘ

Porphyrion → mentionedIn → Pindar ⓘ

Alcyoneus → source → Pindar ⓘ

Actis → sourceMention → Pindar (indirectly, via references to the Heliadae) ⓘ

linked to: Pindar

Cercaphus → source → Pindar ⓘ

Ochimus → sourceIn → Pindar ⓘ

Amphiaraus → literarySource → Pindar ⓘ

Eriphyle → mentionedBy → Pindar ⓘ

Oath of Tyndareus → associatedWith → Pindar ⓘ

subject linked to: oath of Tyndareus

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