Kalydon
E158934
Kalydon is an ancient Greek city in Aetolia, famed in mythology for the Calydonian Boar hunt and its prominent role in early Greek epic tradition.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Calydon | 7 |
| Ancient Calydon | 1 |
| Kalydon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1027095 — 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: Kalydon Context triple: [Western Greece, containsArchaeologicalSite, Kalydon]
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A.
Carneia
Carneia was an important ancient Spartan and Dorian festival in honor of Apollo, marked by rituals, music, and athletic contests that reflected both military and agricultural aspects of the community.
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B.
Locris
Locris was an ancient Greek region in central Greece, inhabited by the Locrians and known for its strategic position between Boeotia and Phocis.
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C.
Nemea
Nemea is an ancient site in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, renowned for its sanctuary of Zeus and its role as one of the four major venues of the Panhellenic athletic festivals.
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D.
Amfissa
Amfissa is a historic town in central Greece, near Delphi, known for its ancient roots, traditional architecture, and olive cultivation in the surrounding Crisaean plain.
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E.
Erytheia
Erytheia is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with the western edge of the world and the tending of a divine garden.
- 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: Kalydon Target entity description: Kalydon is an ancient Greek city in Aetolia, famed in mythology for the Calydonian Boar hunt and its prominent role in early Greek epic tradition.
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A.
Carneia
Carneia was an important ancient Spartan and Dorian festival in honor of Apollo, marked by rituals, music, and athletic contests that reflected both military and agricultural aspects of the community.
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B.
Locris
Locris was an ancient Greek region in central Greece, inhabited by the Locrians and known for its strategic position between Boeotia and Phocis.
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C.
Nemea
Nemea is an ancient site in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, renowned for its sanctuary of Zeus and its role as one of the four major venues of the Panhellenic athletic festivals.
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D.
Amfissa
Amfissa is a historic town in central Greece, near Delphi, known for its ancient roots, traditional architecture, and olive cultivation in the surrounding Crisaean plain.
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E.
Erytheia
Erytheia is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with the western edge of the world and the tending of a divine garden.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek city
ⓘ
mythological location ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
Greek mythology
ⓘ
epic poetry ⓘ |
| archaeologicalSite | yes ⓘ |
| associatedWithFigure |
Deianeira
ⓘ
linked to:
Deianira
Diomedes ⓘ Tydeus ⓘ |
| associatedWithHero |
Atalanta
ⓘ
Meleager ⓘ |
| associatedWithMyth |
Calydonian Boar
ⓘ
linked to:
CalydonianBoar
|
| country | Greece ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | important center in Aetolian myth and cult ⓘ |
| famedFor | Calydonian Boar hunt ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalExcavationsBy |
Danish archaeological missions
ⓘ
Greek Archaeological Service ⓘ
linked to:
Ephorates of Antiquities in Greece
|
| hasCult |
Artemis Laphria
ⓘ
linked to:
Artemis
|
| hasGreekName | Καλυδών ⓘ |
| hasLatinName |
Calydon
ⓘ
linked to:
Kalydon
|
| hasMythicRole |
home of Meleager
ⓘ
kingdom of Oeneus ⓘ |
| hasSanctuaryOf |
Apollo
ⓘ
Artemis ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfRemains |
fortification walls
ⓘ
temple ruins ⓘ theatre remains ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aetolia
ⓘ
central Greece ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Gulf of Patras ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Homeric epics
ⓘ
Iliad ⓘ
linked to:
Homer's Iliad
early Greek epic tradition ⓘ |
| modernNearbySettlement | Evinochori ⓘ |
| mythologicalEvent | curse on the house of Oeneus ⓘ |
| mythologicalKing | Oeneus ⓘ |
| nearRiver | Evenus River ⓘ |
| partOf |
ancient Aetolian League
ⓘ
linked to:
Aetolian League
|
| periodOfFlourishing |
Archaic period
ⓘ
Classical period ⓘ Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| regionInAntiquity | Aetolia ⓘ |
| roleInMyth | setting of the Calydonian Boar hunt ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Kalydon Description of subject: Kalydon is an ancient Greek city in Aetolia, famed in mythology for the Calydonian Boar hunt and its prominent role in early Greek epic tradition.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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