Battus
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Battus was the legendary founder and first king of the ancient Greek colony of Cyrene in North Africa.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Battus canonical | 1 |
| Battus the Lame | 1 |
| Battus the Prosperous | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2131524 — 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: Battus Context triple: [Battus I of Cyrene, givenName, Battus]
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A.
Melanippus
Melanippus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of the Athenian hero Theseus.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Cercyon
Cercyon is a figure from Greek mythology, a violent bandit and wrestler slain by the hero Theseus during his journey to Athens.
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D.
Cleinias
Cleinias is a young Athenian nobleman who serves as the central interlocutor and philosophical pupil of Socrates in Plato’s dialogue *Euthydemus*.
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E.
Asterope
Asterope is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with tending the gods’ blissful garden and its golden apples.
- 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: Battus Target entity description: Battus was the legendary founder and first king of the ancient Greek colony of Cyrene in North Africa.
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A.
Melanippus
Melanippus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of the Athenian hero Theseus.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Cercyon
Cercyon is a figure from Greek mythology, a violent bandit and wrestler slain by the hero Theseus during his journey to Athens.
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D.
Cleinias
Cleinias is a young Athenian nobleman who serves as the central interlocutor and philosophical pupil of Socrates in Plato’s dialogue *Euthydemus*.
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E.
Asterope
Asterope is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with tending the gods’ blissful garden and its golden apples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founder
ⓘ
king ⓘ legendary figure ⓘ mythological Greek king ⓘ |
| category |
Ancient Greek monarchs
ⓘ
Founders of cities in Greek mythology ⓘ Kings of Cyrene ⓘ Mythological kings of Greece ⓘ |
| colonyFounded |
Greek colony of Cyrene
ⓘ
linked to:
Cyrene
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| continentOfColonyFounded | Africa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Cyrene ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Herodotus' Histories
ⓘ
linked to:
works of Herodotus
|
| dynasty | Battiad dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| founderOf | Cyrene ⓘ |
| greekName | Βάττος ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding the Greek colony of Cyrene ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Cyrenaica ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
first king of Cyrene
ⓘ
king of Cyrene ⓘ |
| regionOfColonyFounded | North Africa ⓘ |
| residence | Cyrene ⓘ |
| roleInMythology | oikist (founder) of Cyrene ⓘ |
| successor | Arcesilaus I of Cyrene ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Archaic period of ancient Greece ⓘ |
| title |
Basileus of Cyrene
ⓘ
linked to:
Battus I of Cyrene
|
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: Battus Description of subject: Battus was the legendary founder and first king of the ancient Greek colony of Cyrene in North Africa.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Battus
linked to: Battus