Tiresias
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Tiresias is a blind prophet from Greek mythology who appears in works such as Sophocles’ plays and T.S. Eliot’s "The Waste Land," often symbolizing visionary insight and ambiguous gender.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tiresias canonical | 17 |
| Teiresias | 1 |
| Tiresias (through shared section The Fire Sermon) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T946648 — 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: Tiresias Context triple: [The Waste Land, notableCharacter, Tiresias]
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A.
Pythias
Pythias was the first wife of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and the mother of his daughter, also named Pythias.
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B.
Pythia
Pythia was the high priestess and oracle of Apollo at the ancient Greek sanctuary of Delphi, famed for delivering prophetic pronouncements to individuals and city-states.
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C.
Simmias of Thebes
Simmias of Thebes was an ancient Greek Pythagorean philosopher and close associate of Socrates, best known for his role as a questioning interlocutor in Plato’s dialogues.
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D.
Argus
Argus is an early distributed programming language known for pioneering concepts in fault-tolerant, distributed systems and influencing modern object-oriented and concurrent programming.
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E.
Psychopompos
Psychopompos is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes that highlights his role as a guide of souls to the underworld.
- 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: Tiresias Target entity description: Tiresias is a blind prophet from Greek mythology who appears in works such as Sophocles’ plays and T.S. Eliot’s "The Waste Land," often symbolizing visionary insight and ambiguous gender.
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A.
Pythias
Pythias was the first wife of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and the mother of his daughter, also named Pythias.
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B.
Pythia
Pythia was the high priestess and oracle of Apollo at the ancient Greek sanctuary of Delphi, famed for delivering prophetic pronouncements to individuals and city-states.
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C.
Simmias of Thebes
Simmias of Thebes was an ancient Greek Pythagorean philosopher and close associate of Socrates, best known for his role as a questioning interlocutor in Plato’s dialogues.
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D.
Argus
Argus is an early distributed programming language known for pioneering concepts in fault-tolerant, distributed systems and influencing modern object-oriented and concurrent programming.
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E.
Psychopompos
Psychopompos is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes that highlights his role as a guide of souls to the underworld.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Greek mythology
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diviner ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ prophet ⓘ seer ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Dante’s Inferno ⓘ
linked to:
Inferno
Euripides’ The Bacchae ⓘ
linked to:
Bacchae
Homer’s Odyssey ⓘ
linked to:
Homer's Odyssey
Ovid’s Metamorphoses ⓘ Seneca’s Oedipus ⓘ Sophocles’ Antigone ⓘ
linked to:
Sophocles’ play "Antigone"
Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex ⓘ
linked to:
Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex"
Sophocles’ The Women of Trachis ⓘ
linked to:
The Women of Trachis
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land ⓘ
linked to:
The Waste Land
|
| associatedWithCity | Thebes ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity |
Apollo
ⓘ
Dionysus ⓘ Hera ⓘ Zeus ⓘ |
| causeOfBlindness | divine punishment ⓘ |
| compensationForBlindness |
gift of prophecy
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long life ⓘ |
| consultedBy | Odysseus ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasMythicMotif |
blind seer
ⓘ
gender transformation ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ambiguous gender symbolism
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appearing in multiple Greek tragedies ⓘ clairvoyance ⓘ prophetic insight ⓘ |
| parent |
Chariclo
ⓘ
Everes ⓘ |
| roleInMyth |
advisor to kings
ⓘ
interpreter of omens ⓘ mediator between gods and humans ⓘ |
| servedAs |
counselor to Creon
ⓘ
counselor to Oedipus ⓘ counselor to Pentheus ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
gender ambiguity
ⓘ
inner vision ⓘ intersection of male and female experience ⓘ spiritual blindness and sight ⓘ the burden of knowledge ⓘ visionary insight ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfMyth | mythic age of Thebes ⓘ |
| underworldRole | prophet among the dead ⓘ |
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: Tiresias Description of subject: Tiresias is a blind prophet from Greek mythology who appears in works such as Sophocles’ plays and T.S. Eliot’s "The Waste Land," often symbolizing visionary insight and ambiguous gender.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex"
linked to: Tiresias
subject linked to:
Sophocles’ play "Antigone"
subject linked to:
Euripides' Phoenician Women
linked to: Tiresias
subject linked to:
Euripides' play "The Bacchae"
subject linked to:
La Machine infernale (Cocteau collaboration)