Bellerophon
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Bellerophon is a hero of Greek mythology best known for taming the winged horse Pegasus and slaying the monstrous Chimera.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bellerophon canonical | 10 |
| Bellérophon | 2 |
| Pegasus | 2 |
| Bellerophon (mythological hero) | 1 |
| Bellerophon (through Sisyphus) | 1 |
| Zeus sent a gadfly to sting Pegasus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1378400 — 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: Bellerophon Context triple: [Ornytion, notableRelative, Bellerophon]
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A.
Pegasus
Pegasus is the NATO reporting name for the Boeing KC-46, a modern aerial refueling and strategic military transport aircraft.
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B.
Arion
Arion is a mythical, divinely-bred immortal horse in Greek mythology, famed for his incredible speed and often associated with heroes such as Heracles and Adrastus.
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C.
Palamedes
Palamedes is a 1625 Dutch tragedy by Joost van den Vondel that allegorically critiques political and religious injustice in the Dutch Republic.
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D.
Steropes
Steropes is a one-eyed giant from Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes known for forging Zeus’s thunderbolts.
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E.
Aidoneus
Aidoneus is an alternate name and epithet for Hades, the Greek god who rules the underworld and the dead.
- 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: Bellerophon Target entity description: Bellerophon is a hero of Greek mythology best known for taming the winged horse Pegasus and slaying the monstrous Chimera.
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A.
Pegasus
Pegasus is the NATO reporting name for the Boeing KC-46, a modern aerial refueling and strategic military transport aircraft.
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B.
Arion
Arion is a mythical, divinely-bred immortal horse in Greek mythology, famed for his incredible speed and often associated with heroes such as Heracles and Adrastus.
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C.
Palamedes
Palamedes is a 1625 Dutch tragedy by Joost van den Vondel that allegorically critiques political and religious injustice in the Dutch Republic.
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D.
Steropes
Steropes is a one-eyed giant from Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes known for forging Zeus’s thunderbolts.
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E.
Aidoneus
Aidoneus is an alternate name and epithet for Hades, the Greek god who rules the underworld and the dead.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Bellerophon Description of subject: Bellerophon is a hero of Greek mythology best known for taming the winged horse Pegasus and slaying the monstrous Chimera.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered aboard her in July 1815
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subject linked to:
Billy Ruffian