Castor
E120643
Castor is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Dioscuri twins (with his brother Pollux), known as a patron of sailors and horsemen.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Castor canonical | 70 |
| Castor (Roman deity) | 1 |
| Castor (mythology) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1044601 — 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: Castor Context triple: [Leda, motherOf, Castor]
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A.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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B.
Asterope
Asterope is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with tending the gods’ blissful garden and its golden apples.
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C.
Marpessa
Marpessa is a figure in Greek mythology known as a mortal woman whose beauty led to a famous love contest between the god Apollo and the hero Idas.
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D.
Kourotrophos
Kourotrophos is an epithet meaning “nurturer of children,” highlighting a deity’s role as protector and caretaker of the young.
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E.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
- 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: Castor Target entity description: Castor is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Dioscuri twins (with his brother Pollux), known as a patron of sailors and horsemen.
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A.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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B.
Asterope
Asterope is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with tending the gods’ blissful garden and its golden apples.
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C.
Marpessa
Marpessa is a figure in Greek mythology known as a mortal woman whose beauty led to a famous love contest between the god Apollo and the hero Idas.
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D.
Kourotrophos
Kourotrophos is an epithet meaning “nurturer of children,” highlighting a deity’s role as protector and caretaker of the young.
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E.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dioscurus
ⓘ
demigod ⓘ figure in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| afterlifeForm | star in the constellation Gemini ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica
ⓘ
linked to:
Argonautica
Homeric Hymns ⓘ Ovid's Metamorphoses ⓘ
linked to:
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Pindar's odes ⓘ |
| associatedPhenomenon | St. Elmo's fire (later interpretation) ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
constellation Gemini
ⓘ
horsemen ⓘ sailors ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Laconia ⓘ |
| collectiveIdentity |
Dioscuri
ⓘ
linked to:
Polydeuces
|
| cultCenter |
Rome
ⓘ
Sparta ⓘ |
| culture |
Ancient Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| diedIn | conflict with Idas and Lynceus ⓘ |
| domain | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| equatedInRomanMythologyWith |
Castor (Roman deity)
ⓘ
linked to:
Castor
|
| ethnicOrigin | Spartan hero ⓘ |
| father | Tyndareus ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| halfBrother |
Pollux
ⓘ
Polydeuces ⓘ |
| halfSister |
Clytemnestra
ⓘ
Helen of Troy ⓘ |
| iconography |
depicted with a pilos cap
ⓘ
depicted with a spear ⓘ depicted with horses ⓘ |
| killedBy | Idas ⓘ |
| knownFor |
participation in the Argonauts
ⓘ
skill in horsemanship ⓘ |
| memberOf | Argonauts ⓘ |
| mother | Leda ⓘ |
| mythologicalEvent |
Calydonian boar hunt
ⓘ
linked to:
Calydonian Boar Hunt
|
| mythRole | helper of those in distress at sea ⓘ |
| pairedWith | star Pollux in Gemini ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Calydonian boar hunt
ⓘ
linked to:
Calydonian Boar Hunt
|
| patronOf |
horsemen
ⓘ
sailors ⓘ |
| sibling |
Pollux
ⓘ
Polydeuces ⓘ |
| twinWith |
Pollux
ⓘ
Polydeuces ⓘ |
| worshippedAs |
protector of cavalry
ⓘ
protector of sailors ⓘ |
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: Castor Description of subject: Castor is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Dioscuri twins (with his brother Pollux), known as a patron of sailors and horsemen.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Castor
linked to: Castor
subject linked to:
constellation Gemini
subject linked to:
constellation Gemini