Libon of Elis
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Libon of Elis was an ancient Greek architect best known for designing the classical Doric Temple of Zeus at Olympia in the 5th century BCE.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Libon of Elis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T997970 — 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: Libon of Elis Context triple: [Temple of Zeus at Olympia, architect, Libon of Elis]
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A.
Leonidas of Naxos
Leonidas of Naxos was an ancient Greek figure from the island of Naxos, notable enough in antiquity to have the Leonidaion building named in his honor.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Cirón
Cirón is a river in southwestern France known for flowing through the Sauternes wine region, where its cool misty microclimate helps produce the area’s famous sweet wines.
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D.
Aristocles
Aristocles was the given birth name of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy.
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E.
Linos
Linos is an alternative form of the name Linus, often associated with figures from ancient Greek mythology and early Christian tradition.
- 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: Libon of Elis Target entity description: Libon of Elis was an ancient Greek architect best known for designing the classical Doric Temple of Zeus at Olympia in the 5th century BCE.
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A.
Leonidas of Naxos
Leonidas of Naxos was an ancient Greek figure from the island of Naxos, notable enough in antiquity to have the Leonidaion building named in his honor.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Cirón
Cirón is a river in southwestern France known for flowing through the Sauternes wine region, where its cool misty microclimate helps produce the area’s famous sweet wines.
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D.
Aristocles
Aristocles was the given birth name of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, one of the most influential figures in Western philosophy.
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E.
Linos
Linos is an alternative form of the name Linus, often associated with figures from ancient Greek mythology and early Christian tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Doric temple
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ancient Greek architect ⓘ ancient Greek temple ⓘ person ⓘ |
| architect | Libon of Elis ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Doric
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Doric ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Elis ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Peloponnese ⓘ |
| associatedWithSanctuary |
Sanctuary of Olympia
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linked to:
sanctuary of Olympia
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| constructionStartCentury | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| country | Greece ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Classical Greece ⓘ |
| culture | Classical Greece ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Zeus ⓘ |
| designed | Temple of Zeus at Olympia ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Greek ⓘ |
| floruit | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | designing the Temple of Zeus at Olympia ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Olympia ⓘ |
| locatedInPoliticalEntity |
ancient Elis
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linked to:
Ancient Elis
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| locatedInRegion | Peloponnese ⓘ |
| notableWorkPeriod | Classical period of ancient Greece ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sanctuary of Olympia
ⓘ
linked to:
sanctuary of Olympia
|
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: Libon of Elis Description of subject: Libon of Elis was an ancient Greek architect best known for designing the classical Doric Temple of Zeus at Olympia in the 5th century BCE.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.