Alcmene
E22277
Alcmene is a mortal woman in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of the hero Heracles.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alcmene canonical | 34 |
| Alcmena | 14 |
| Alcmena’s unnamed daughters | 1 |
| Queen Alcmene | 1 |
| Ἀλκμήνη | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156629 — 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: Alcmene Context triple: [Zeus, consort, Alcmene]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Taygete
Taygete is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiad nymphs and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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D.
Hera
Hera is the queen of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, revered as the goddess of marriage, women, and family.
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E.
Athena
Athena is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare, and crafts, and the patron deity of the city of Athens.
- 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: Alcmene Target entity description: Alcmene is a mortal woman in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of the hero Heracles.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Taygete
Taygete is a figure from Greek mythology, one of the Pleiad nymphs and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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D.
Hera
Hera is the queen of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, revered as the goddess of marriage, women, and family.
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E.
Athena
Athena is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare, and crafts, and the patron deity of the city of Athens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Alcmene Description of subject: Alcmene is a mortal woman in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of the hero Heracles.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alcmene
linked to: Alcmene
subject linked to:
Zeus and Hera
linked to: Alcmene
linked to: Alcmene
subject linked to:
Euripides’ play Heracleidae
subject linked to:
Heracles’ twin Iphicles (as Heracles’ mortal counterpart)
linked to: Alcmene
linked to: Alcmene
linked to: Alcmene
linked to: Alcmene
linked to: Alcmene
linked to: Alcmene