Phaestis
E114882
Phaestis is known in some ancient biographical traditions as the mother of the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phaestis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T810075 — 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: Phaestis Context triple: [Aristotle, mother, Phaestis]
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A.
Eleusis
Eleusis was an ancient Greek city renowned as the center of the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the most important secret religious cults of the classical world dedicated to Demeter and Persephone.
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B.
Heliaia
Heliaia was the principal popular court of Classical Athens, composed of large citizen juries that handled most legal cases and played a key role in the city’s democratic system.
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C.
Minos
Minos is a legendary king of Crete in Greek mythology, famed for commissioning the Labyrinth and serving as a judge of the dead in the underworld.
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D.
Astakos
Astakos is a coastal town in western Greece known as a regional port and ferry hub on the Ionian Sea.
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E.
Dodona
Dodona was an ancient Greek oracle and sanctuary in Epirus, renowned as one of the oldest religious sites dedicated to Zeus.
- 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: Phaestis Target entity description: Phaestis is known in some ancient biographical traditions as the mother of the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
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A.
Eleusis
Eleusis was an ancient Greek city renowned as the center of the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the most important secret religious cults of the classical world dedicated to Demeter and Persephone.
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B.
Heliaia
Heliaia was the principal popular court of Classical Athens, composed of large citizen juries that handled most legal cases and played a key role in the city’s democratic system.
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C.
Minos
Minos is a legendary king of Crete in Greek mythology, famed for commissioning the Labyrinth and serving as a judge of the dead in the underworld.
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D.
Astakos
Astakos is a coastal town in western Greece known as a regional port and ferry hub on the Ionian Sea.
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E.
Dodona
Dodona was an ancient Greek oracle and sanctuary in Epirus, renowned as one of the oldest religious sites dedicated to Zeus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek woman
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Aristotle ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| describedIn | ancient biographical traditions ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild | Aristotle ⓘ |
| motherOf | Aristotle ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Aristotle ⓘ |
| spouse | Nicomachus ⓘ |
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: Phaestis Description of subject: Phaestis is known in some ancient biographical traditions as the mother of the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.