Neaera
E254943
Neaera is a figure from Greek mythology known primarily as the wife of Autolycus, the master thief and grandfather of Odysseus.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neaera canonical | 5 |
| Neaera (for Lampetia and Phaethusa) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2283086 — 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: Neaera Context triple: [Autolycus, spouse, Neaera]
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A.
Neraudia
Neraudia is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to Hawaii and known for its often rare and endemic shrub species.
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B.
Nesiota
Nesiota is a small, likely extinct genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, historically known from the South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
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C.
Teurnia
Teurnia was an important ancient Roman city that served as a major administrative and cultural center in the province of Noricum, located in what is now southern Austria.
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D.
Ziria
Ziria is a mountain in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, traditionally identified with Mount Cyllene, which is famed in Greek mythology as the birthplace of the god Hermes.
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E.
Velia
Velia was an important ancient Greek coastal city in Lucania, southern Italy, known for its role as a philosophical center of the Eleatic school.
- 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: Neaera Target entity description: Neaera is a figure from Greek mythology known primarily as the wife of Autolycus, the master thief and grandfather of Odysseus.
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A.
Neraudia
Neraudia is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to Hawaii and known for its often rare and endemic shrub species.
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B.
Nesiota
Nesiota is a small, likely extinct genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, historically known from the South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
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C.
Teurnia
Teurnia was an important ancient Roman city that served as a major administrative and cultural center in the province of Noricum, located in what is now southern Austria.
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D.
Ziria
Ziria is a mountain in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, traditionally identified with Mount Cyllene, which is famed in Greek mythology as the birthplace of the god Hermes.
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E.
Velia
Velia was an important ancient Greek coastal city in Lucania, southern Italy, known for its role as a philosophical center of the Eleatic school.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mythological figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Autolycus, the master thief
ⓘ
linked to:
Autolycus
|
| culture | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | later mythographic traditions ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Greek heroic legend ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the grandmother of Odysseus
ⓘ
being the wife of Autolycus ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
Anticlea
ⓘ
Odysseus ⓘ |
| spouse | Autolycus ⓘ |
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: Neaera Description of subject: Neaera is a figure from Greek mythology known primarily as the wife of Autolycus, the master thief and grandfather of Odysseus.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.