Phaedra
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Phaedra is a figure in Greek mythology, a Cretan princess and later queen of Athens best known for her tragic love for her stepson Hippolytus.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phaedra canonical | 22 |
| Phèdre | 5 |
| Hippolytus | 1 |
| Phaedra and Hippolytus | 1 |
| Phædra | 1 |
| Phèdre (stage role) | 1 |
| Phèdre by Jean Racine | 1 |
| Racine’s Phèdre | 1 |
| Racine’s tragedy "Phèdre" | 1 |
| Seneca's Phaedra | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1092313 — 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: Phaedra Context triple: [Minos, offspring, Phaedra]
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A.
Cadmus et Hermione
Cadmus et Hermione is a 1673 French tragédie en musique by Jean-Baptiste Lully, often regarded as the first true French opera and a landmark in the development of the genre.
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B.
Daphne
Daphne is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for being pursued by Apollo and transformed into a laurel tree to escape him.
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C.
Daphne
Daphne is a coastal city in Baldwin County, Alabama, situated along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay.
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D.
Thesmophoria
Thesmophoria was an ancient Greek women-only fertility festival held in honor of the goddess Demeter, associated with agriculture, marriage, and the prosperity of the community.
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E.
Bacchae
Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes the arrival of the god Dionysus in Thebes and the devastating consequences of resisting his cult.
- 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: Phaedra Target entity description: Phaedra is a figure in Greek mythology, a Cretan princess and later queen of Athens best known for her tragic love for her stepson Hippolytus.
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A.
Cadmus et Hermione
Cadmus et Hermione is a 1673 French tragédie en musique by Jean-Baptiste Lully, often regarded as the first true French opera and a landmark in the development of the genre.
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B.
Daphne
Daphne is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for being pursued by Apollo and transformed into a laurel tree to escape him.
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C.
Daphne
Daphne is a coastal city in Baldwin County, Alabama, situated along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay.
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D.
Thesmophoria
Thesmophoria was an ancient Greek women-only fertility festival held in honor of the goddess Demeter, associated with agriculture, marriage, and the prosperity of the community.
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E.
Bacchae
Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides that dramatizes the arrival of the god Dionysus in Thebes and the devastating consequences of resisting his cult.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mythological figure
ⓘ
princess ⓘ queen ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Euripides' Hippolytus
ⓘ
linked to:
Euripides’ tragedy Hippolytus
Racine's Phèdre ⓘ
linked to:
Hippolyte et Aricie
Seneca's Phaedra ⓘ
linked to:
Phaedra
|
| associatedDeity | Aphrodite ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Athens
ⓘ
Knossos ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
false accusation
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ lust ⓘ stepfamily conflict ⓘ tragic love ⓘ |
| category |
Characters in Greek mythology
ⓘ
Cretan characters in Greek mythology ⓘ Queens in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| children |
Acamas (son of Theseus)
ⓘ
Demophon (son of Theseus) ⓘ
linked to:
Demophon
|
| culture | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Cretan ⓘ |
| family |
House of Minos
ⓘ
linked to:
Minos
|
| father | Minos ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfEarliestSources | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | tragedy ⓘ |
| mother |
Pasiphae
ⓘ
linked to:
Pasiphaë
|
| mythologicalTradition | Greek ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | catalyst of Hippolytus' death ⓘ |
| notableFor |
false accusation against Hippolytus
ⓘ
tragic love for Hippolytus ⓘ |
| origin | Crete ⓘ |
| relatedMyth |
Myth of Hippolytus
ⓘ
linked to:
Euripides’ tragedy Hippolytus
Theseus cycle ⓘ
linked to:
Theseus
|
| roleInMyth | tragic heroine ⓘ |
| sibling |
Androgeus
ⓘ
Ariadne ⓘ Catreus ⓘ Deucalion (son of Minos) ⓘ Glaucus ⓘ |
| spouse | Theseus ⓘ |
| stepChildOf | Theseus ⓘ |
| stepSon | Hippolytus ⓘ |
| title | Queen of Athens ⓘ |
| victimOf | Aphrodite's vengeance ⓘ |
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: Phaedra Description of subject: Phaedra is a figure in Greek mythology, a Cretan princess and later queen of Athens best known for her tragic love for her stepson Hippolytus.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Phaedra
linked to: Phaedra
subject linked to:
Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau)
linked to: Phaedra
subject linked to:
Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau)
linked to: Phaedra
subject linked to:
Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau)
linked to: Phaedra
linked to: Phaedra
linked to: Phaedra
linked to: Phaedra
linked to: Phaedra
subject linked to:
Euripides’ tragedy Hippolytus
subject linked to:
Euripides’ tragedy Hippolytus
linked to: Phaedra
linked to: Phaedra