Semele
E21904
Semele is a mortal princess in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of Dionysus by Zeus and for her tragic death upon seeing his divine form.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Semele canonical | 25 |
| Semele (character) | 1 |
| Sémélé | 1 |
| myth of Semele | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156628 — 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: Semele Context triple: [Zeus, consort, Semele]
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A.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
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B.
Clymene
Clymene is a figure in Greek mythology, often depicted as an Oceanid or Titaness associated with light or fame and known as the wife or consort of the Titan Iapetus.
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C.
Hesione
Hesione is a figure in Greek mythology, often identified as a mortal woman or princess associated with the Titan Prometheus in later mythic traditions.
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D.
Taygete
Taygete is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiad nymphs and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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E.
Isis
Isis is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with magic, motherhood, healing, and protection, widely venerated throughout Egypt and the Greco-Roman world.
- 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: Semele Target entity description: Semele is a mortal princess in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of Dionysus by Zeus and for her tragic death upon seeing his divine form.
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A.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
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B.
Clymene
Clymene is a figure in Greek mythology, often depicted as an Oceanid or Titaness associated with light or fame and known as the wife or consort of the Titan Iapetus.
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C.
Hesione
Hesione is a figure in Greek mythology, often identified as a mortal woman or princess associated with the Titan Prometheus in later mythic traditions.
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D.
Taygete
Taygete is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiad nymphs and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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E.
Isis
Isis is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with magic, motherhood, healing, and protection, widely venerated throughout Egypt and the Greco-Roman world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mortal woman ⓘ princess ⓘ |
| afterlifeFate |
brought to Olympus by Dionysus
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rescued from Hades by Dionysus ⓘ |
| associatedDeity | Dionysus ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Thebes ⓘ |
| associatedRegion | Boeotia ⓘ |
| category |
Mortal lovers of Zeus
ⓘ
Theban mythology ⓘ Women in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
lightning bolt of Zeus
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seeing Zeus in his true divine form ⓘ |
| child | Dionysus ⓘ |
| consort | Zeus ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| deifiedAs | Thyone ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Theban ⓘ |
| father | Cadmus ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| grandfather | Agenor ⓘ |
| grandmother | Telephassa ⓘ |
| instigatedBy | Hera ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a mortal lover of Zeus
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being the mother of Dionysus ⓘ dying after seeing Zeus in his full divine form ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Euripides' Bacchae
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linked to:
Bacchae
Ovid's Metamorphoses ⓘ
linked to:
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
The Homeric Hymns ⓘ
linked to:
Homeric Hymns
|
| mother | Harmonia ⓘ |
| mythCycle | Dionysian myths ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| mythRole | mother of a dying-and-rising god ⓘ |
| nameInGreek | Σεμέλη ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
danger of seeing a god unveiled
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divine–mortal love ⓘ jealousy of Hera ⓘ |
| receivedTitle | Thyone ⓘ |
| religiousAssociation |
Dionysian mystery cults
ⓘ
linked to:
Dionysian Mysteries
|
| sibling |
Agave
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Autonoë ⓘ Illyrius ⓘ Ino ⓘ Polydorus ⓘ |
| symbol | mortal origin of Dionysus ⓘ |
| worshippedAs | goddess associated with Dionysian mysteries ⓘ |
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: Semele Description of subject: Semele is a mortal princess in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of Dionysus by Zeus and for her tragic death upon seeing his divine form.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.