Cronus
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Cronus is a Titan in Greek mythology best known for overthrowing his father Uranus and later being overthrown by his own son Zeus.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cronus canonical | 82 |
| Kronos | 13 |
| Κρόνος | 6 |
| Κρόνος (Cronus) | 3 |
| Castration of Uranus | 1 |
| Cronus (in some accounts) | 1 |
| Greek myth of Cronus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156614 — 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: Cronus Context triple: [Zeus, parent, Cronus]
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A.
Cronos
Cronos is a 1993 Mexican horror-fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro, noted for its inventive vampire mythology and atmospheric visual style.
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B.
Zeus
Zeus is the king of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, ruling over the sky and thunder and presiding as the chief deity of the pantheon.
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C.
Cyclopes
The Cyclopes are one-eyed giants from Greek mythology renowned as master craftsmen who forged Zeus’s thunderbolts and other divine weapons.
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D.
Typhoeus
Typhoeus is a monstrous serpentine giant from Greek mythology, often depicted as a fearsome adversary of Zeus and a symbol of chaotic natural forces.
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E.
Polyphemus
Polyphemus is the one-eyed Cyclops in Greek mythology best known for trapping Odysseus and his men in a cave and being outwitted and blinded by them.
- 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: Cronus Target entity description: Cronus is a Titan in Greek mythology best known for overthrowing his father Uranus and later being overthrown by his own son Zeus.
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A.
Cronos
Cronos is a 1993 Mexican horror-fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro, noted for its inventive vampire mythology and atmospheric visual style.
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B.
Zeus
Zeus is the king of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, ruling over the sky and thunder and presiding as the chief deity of the pantheon.
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C.
Cyclopes
The Cyclopes are one-eyed giants from Greek mythology renowned as master craftsmen who forged Zeus’s thunderbolts and other divine weapons.
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D.
Typhoeus
Typhoeus is a monstrous serpentine giant from Greek mythology, often depicted as a fearsome adversary of Zeus and a symbol of chaotic natural forces.
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E.
Polyphemus
Polyphemus is the one-eyed Cyclops in Greek mythology best known for trapping Odysseus and his men in a cave and being outwitted and blinded by them.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
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: Cronus Description of subject: Cronus is a Titan in Greek mythology best known for overthrowing his father Uranus and later being overthrown by his own son Zeus.
Referenced by (107)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cronus
linked to: Cronus
subject linked to:
Titans of Greek mythology
linked to: Cronus
subject linked to:
age of the Titans
subject linked to:
age of the Titans