Amalthea
E247370
Amalthea is a nurturing figure from Greek mythology, often depicted as the goat or nymph who cared for the infant Zeus and is associated with the origin of the cornucopia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amalthea canonical | 1 |
| Lady Amalthea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2233513 — 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: Amalthea Context triple: [Capricornus, mythologicalFigure, Amalthea]
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A.
Dione
Dione is an icy mid-sized moon of Saturn known for its bright, heavily cratered surface and extensive system of fractures and cliffs.
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B.
Dione
Dione is a figure in Greek mythology often regarded as a Titaness or early goddess associated with oracular power and sometimes identified as the mother of Aphrodite.
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C.
Callisto
Callisto is a large, heavily cratered icy moon of Jupiter and one of the four Galilean satellites discovered by Galileo Galilei.
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D.
Tethys
Tethys is one of Saturn’s mid-sized icy moons, known for its bright, heavily cratered surface and massive Odysseus impact basin.
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E.
Tethys
Tethys is a Titaness in Greek mythology, traditionally regarded as a primordial sea goddess and wife of Oceanus.
- 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: Amalthea Target entity description: Amalthea is a nurturing figure from Greek mythology, often depicted as the goat or nymph who cared for the infant Zeus and is associated with the origin of the cornucopia.
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A.
Dione
Dione is an icy mid-sized moon of Saturn known for its bright, heavily cratered surface and extensive system of fractures and cliffs.
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B.
Dione
Dione is a figure in Greek mythology often regarded as a Titaness or early goddess associated with oracular power and sometimes identified as the mother of Aphrodite.
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C.
Callisto
Callisto is a large, heavily cratered icy moon of Jupiter and one of the four Galilean satellites discovered by Galileo Galilei.
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D.
Tethys
Tethys is one of Saturn’s mid-sized icy moons, known for its bright, heavily cratered surface and massive Odysseus impact basin.
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E.
Tethys
Tethys is a Titaness in Greek mythology, traditionally regarded as a primordial sea goddess and wife of Oceanus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
nurturing deity ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Cretan Zeus myths ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
abundance
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cornucopia ⓘ fertility ⓘ infancy of Zeus ⓘ island of Crete ⓘ
linked to:
Crete
nourishment ⓘ |
| caredFor | Zeus ⓘ |
| caredForLocation | Cretan cave ⓘ |
| connectedToDeity | Zeus ⓘ |
| cultRegion | Crete ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
goat
ⓘ
nymph ⓘ |
| fedWith | goat’s milk ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasRole | nurse of Zeus ⓘ |
| linkedToMyth | origin of the cornucopia ⓘ |
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protector of future king of the gods ⓘ |
| parentalRoleTo | Zeus ⓘ |
| protectedFrom | Cronus ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
divine nursing
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divine protection of infants ⓘ |
| sometimesIdentifiedAs |
goat who suckled Zeus
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nymph who owned the goat that suckled Zeus ⓘ |
| symbol |
horn of plenty
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plenty ⓘ prosperity ⓘ |
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: Amalthea Description of subject: Amalthea is a nurturing figure from Greek mythology, often depicted as the goat or nymph who cared for the infant Zeus and is associated with the origin of the cornucopia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
constellation Capricornus
linked to: Amalthea