Icarus
E223544
Icarus is a figure from Greek mythology known for flying too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax, causing his fatal fall into the sea.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Icarus canonical | 8 |
| myth of Icarus | 2 |
| Icarus I | 1 |
| Icarus from Greek mythology | 1 |
| Young Icarus | 1 |
| myth of Daedalus and Icarus | 1 |
| story of Daedalus and Icarus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1977810 — 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: Icarus Context triple: [cut-out period, notableWork, Icarus]
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A.
ICARUS
ICARUS is a large liquid-argon time projection chamber neutrino detector designed to study neutrino properties and rare particle interactions.
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B.
Phaethon
Phaethon is a figure in Greek mythology best known for disastrously attempting to drive the sun god’s chariot across the sky, leading to his death and the scorching of the earth.
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C.
Ceyx
Ceyx is a figure from Greek mythology, a king of Trachis known for his tragic love story with Alcyone that led to their transformation into halcyon birds.
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D.
Pegasus
Pegasus is the NATO reporting name for the Boeing KC-46, a modern aerial refueling and strategic military transport aircraft.
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E.
Leda
Leda is a figure in Greek mythology, a Spartan queen best known as the mother of Helen of Troy and the Dioscuri after being seduced by Zeus.
- 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: Icarus Target entity description: Icarus is a figure from Greek mythology known for flying too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax, causing his fatal fall into the sea.
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A.
ICARUS
ICARUS is a large liquid-argon time projection chamber neutrino detector designed to study neutrino properties and rare particle interactions.
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B.
Phaethon
Phaethon is a figure in Greek mythology best known for disastrously attempting to drive the sun god’s chariot across the sky, leading to his death and the scorching of the earth.
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C.
Ceyx
Ceyx is a figure from Greek mythology, a king of Trachis known for his tragic love story with Alcyone that led to their transformation into halcyon birds.
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D.
Pegasus
Pegasus is the NATO reporting name for the Boeing KC-46, a modern aerial refueling and strategic military transport aircraft.
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E.
Leda
Leda is a figure in Greek mythology, a Spartan queen best known as the mother of Helen of Troy and the Dioscuri after being seduced by Zeus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mythological figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn | myths about Daedalus and Minos ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Crete
ⓘ
Icarian Sea ⓘ
linked to:
Myrtoan Sea
|
| associatedWith |
disobedience
ⓘ
hubris ⓘ over-ambition ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | drowning ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| culture | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| deathLocationTraditional |
Icarian Sea
ⓘ
linked to:
Myrtoan Sea
|
| escapeMethod | flight with artificial wings ⓘ |
| familyRelation | son of Daedalus ⓘ |
| father | Daedalus ⓘ |
| flightEndedAt | sea ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasIconography |
falling from the sky
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wings melting in the sun ⓘ young man with wings ⓘ |
| hasWingsMadeOf |
feathers
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wax ⓘ |
| imprisonedWith | Daedalus ⓘ |
| imprisonmentLocation |
Labyrinth of Crete
ⓘ
linked to:
labyrinth of the Minotaur
|
| inspiredGenre |
literature
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music ⓘ painting ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| moralLesson |
danger of excessive ambition
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danger of ignoring wise counsel ⓘ importance of moderation ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | possibly related to the Icarian Sea ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | tragic example ⓘ |
| notableFor |
falling into the sea
ⓘ
flying too close to the sun ⓘ |
| parent | Daedalus ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Apollodorus’s Bibliotheca
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Ovid’s Metamorphoses ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
consequences of ignoring limits
ⓘ
reckless ambition ⓘ youthful overconfidence ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfMyth | mythic age of Greek heroes ⓘ |
| warnedNotToFly |
too high
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too low ⓘ |
| warningReceivedFrom | Daedalus ⓘ |
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: Icarus Description of subject: Icarus is a figure from Greek mythology known for flying too close to the sun with wings made of feathers and wax, causing his fatal fall into the sea.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
album "Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest"
linked to: Icarus
linked to: Icarus
subject linked to:
Musee des Beaux Arts
linked to: Icarus
subject linked to:
spacecraft Icarus II
linked to: Icarus
linked to: Icarus
linked to: Icarus