Iphicles
E121509
Iphicles is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the mortal half-brother of the hero Heracles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iphicles canonical | 11 |
| Iphicles, mortal half-brother of Heracles | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1032221 — 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: Iphicles Context triple: [Alcmene, motherOf, Iphicles]
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A.
Sicyon
Sicyon was an ancient Greek city-state in the northern Peloponnese, known for its early political significance and contributions to Greek art and culture.
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B.
Acis
Acis is a handsome Sicilian shepherd from Greek mythology who becomes the tragic lover of the sea nymph Galatea.
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C.
Euphrátēs
Euphrátēs is the ancient Greek name for the Euphrates, one of the longest and most historically significant rivers of Western Asia that flows through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
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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.
Clymene
Clymene is a figure in Greek mythology, often depicted as an Oceanid or Titaness associated with light or fame and known as the wife or consort of the Titan Iapetus.
- 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: Iphicles Target entity description: Iphicles is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the mortal half-brother of the hero Heracles.
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A.
Sicyon
Sicyon was an ancient Greek city-state in the northern Peloponnese, known for its early political significance and contributions to Greek art and culture.
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B.
Acis
Acis is a handsome Sicilian shepherd from Greek mythology who becomes the tragic lover of the sea nymph Galatea.
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C.
Euphrátēs
Euphrátēs is the ancient Greek name for the Euphrates, one of the longest and most historically significant rivers of Western Asia that flows through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
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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.
Clymene
Clymene is a figure in Greek mythology, often depicted as an Oceanid or Titaness associated with light or fame and known as the wife or consort of the Titan Iapetus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Iphicles Description of subject: Iphicles is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the mortal half-brother of the hero Heracles.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Iphicles