Alcaeus
E137340
Alcaeus is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of the hero Perseus.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alcaeus canonical | 19 |
| Alcaeus (son of Perseus) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1146486 — 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: Alcaeus Context triple: [Perseus, child, Alcaeus]
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A.
Alcaeus of Mytilene
Alcaeus of Mytilene was an influential 6th-century BCE lyric poet from the island of Lesbos, renowned for his political and personal poetry composed in the Aeolic dialect.
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B.
Pindar
Pindar was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his victory odes celebrating athletic triumphs in the Panhellenic games.
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C.
Anacreon
Anacreon was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his songs celebrating love, wine, and revelry.
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D.
Sappho
Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos, renowned for her emotionally intense, personal poetry, much of which survives only in fragments.
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E.
Callimachus
Callimachus was a Hellenistic Greek poet and scholar of the Library of Alexandria, renowned for his learned, refined verse and influential literary criticism.
- 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: Alcaeus Target entity description: Alcaeus is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of the hero Perseus.
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A.
Alcaeus of Mytilene
Alcaeus of Mytilene was an influential 6th-century BCE lyric poet from the island of Lesbos, renowned for his political and personal poetry composed in the Aeolic dialect.
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B.
Pindar
Pindar was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his victory odes celebrating athletic triumphs in the Panhellenic games.
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C.
Anacreon
Anacreon was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his songs celebrating love, wine, and revelry.
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D.
Sappho
Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos, renowned for her emotionally intense, personal poetry, much of which survives only in fragments.
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E.
Callimachus
Callimachus was a Hellenistic Greek poet and scholar of the Library of Alexandria, renowned for his learned, refined verse and influential literary criticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Greek mythology
ⓘ
human ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Mycenae
ⓘ
linked to:
Mycenae and Tiryns
Tiryns ⓘ
linked to:
Mycenae and Tiryns
|
| child |
Amphitryon
ⓘ
Anaxo ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Mycenae
ⓘ
linked to:
Mycenae and Tiryns
|
| culture | Ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| father |
Perseus
ⓘ
linked to:
Perseus (son of Nestor)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandfather | Heracles ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Eurystheus ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Scholia on Homer ⓘ
linked to:
Iliad scholia
|
| mother | Andromeda ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| nameInGreek | Ἀλκαῖος ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Perseid dynasty ⓘ |
| relativeType |
grandfather of Heracles
ⓘ
uncle of Eurystheus ⓘ |
| sibling |
Autochthe
ⓘ
Cynurus ⓘ Electryon ⓘ Gorgophone ⓘ Heleus ⓘ Mestor ⓘ Sthenelus ⓘ |
| spouse | Astydameia ⓘ |
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: Alcaeus Description of subject: Alcaeus is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of the hero Perseus.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.