Orestes
E200352
Orestes is a tragic hero of Greek mythology, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, famed for avenging his father’s murder and enduring the ensuing divine persecution.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Orestes canonical | 80 |
| Oreste | 6 |
| Ὀρέστης | 2 |
| Electra | 1 |
| Oreste, son of Agamemnon | 1 |
| Orestes (Euripides) | 1 |
| Orestes (in later life) | 1 |
| Orestes (mythology) | 1 |
| Orestes is son of Clytemnestra | 1 |
| murder of Agamemnon | 1 |
| revenge of Orestes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1705895 — 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: Orestes Context triple: [Atreid dynasty, hasMainFigure, Orestes]
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Orestes
Orestes was a Roman general and statesman who effectively ruled the Western Roman Empire through his young son, the last emperor Romulus Augustulus, before being overthrown by Odoacer.
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B.
Aegisthus
Aegisthus is a figure in Greek mythology known for his affair with Clytemnestra and his role in the murder of King Agamemnon, which led to his eventual killing by Orestes.
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Orestheus
Orestheus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of the flood survivor and progenitor of humankind, Deucalion.
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Electra
Electra is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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E.
Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra is a queen of Mycenae in Greek mythology, famed for murdering her husband Agamemnon upon his return from the Trojan War.
- 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: Orestes Target entity description: Orestes is a tragic hero of Greek mythology, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, famed for avenging his father’s murder and enduring the ensuing divine persecution.
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A.
Orestes
Orestes was a Roman general and statesman who effectively ruled the Western Roman Empire through his young son, the last emperor Romulus Augustulus, before being overthrown by Odoacer.
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B.
Aegisthus
Aegisthus is a figure in Greek mythology known for his affair with Clytemnestra and his role in the murder of King Agamemnon, which led to his eventual killing by Orestes.
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C.
Orestheus
Orestheus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of the flood survivor and progenitor of humankind, Deucalion.
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D.
Electra
Electra is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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E.
Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra is a queen of Mycenae in Greek mythology, famed for murdering her husband Agamemnon upon his return from the Trojan War.
- 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: Orestes Description of subject: Orestes is a tragic hero of Greek mythology, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, famed for avenging his father’s murder and enduring the ensuing divine persecution.
Referenced by (96)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Andromache
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