Oceanus
E26195
Oceanus is a primordial Titan in Greek mythology who personifies the vast, encircling river believed to surround the world.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oceanus canonical | 51 |
| Apsu | 5 |
| Iapetos | 1 |
| Nereus (in some traditions) | 1 |
| Oceanus (mythic western ocean) | 1 |
| earth-encircling river Oceanus | 1 |
| the edge of Oceanus | 1 |
| world-encircling river Oceanus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156898 — 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: Oceanus Context triple: [Titanomachy, opposingCombatant, Oceanus]
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A.
Iapetus
Iapetus is a Titan from Greek mythology, often associated with mortality and craftsmanship and known as the father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, and Menoetius.
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B.
Gaia
Gaia is the primordial Greek earth goddess, revered as the ancestral mother of all life and the personification of the Earth itself.
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C.
Fidra
Fidra is a small uninhabited island off the coast of East Lothian, Scotland, known for its lighthouse, seabird colonies, and as an inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson.
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D.
Poseidon
Poseidon is the ancient Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses, one of the twelve Olympian deities.
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E.
Terevaka
Terevaka is a large extinct volcanic peak that forms the highest and youngest of the three main volcanoes making up Easter Island.
- 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: Oceanus Target entity description: Oceanus is a primordial Titan in Greek mythology who personifies the vast, encircling river believed to surround the world.
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A.
Iapetus
Iapetus is a Titan from Greek mythology, often associated with mortality and craftsmanship and known as the father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, and Menoetius.
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B.
Gaia
Gaia is the primordial Greek earth goddess, revered as the ancestral mother of all life and the personification of the Earth itself.
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C.
Fidra
Fidra is a small uninhabited island off the coast of East Lothian, Scotland, known for its lighthouse, seabird colonies, and as an inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson.
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D.
Poseidon
Poseidon is the ancient Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses, one of the twelve Olympian deities.
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E.
Terevaka
Terevaka is a large extinct volcanic peak that forms the highest and youngest of the three main volcanoes making up Easter Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek mythological figure
ⓘ
Titan ⓘ primordial deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
boundary of the known world
ⓘ
cosmic river ⓘ fresh water ⓘ |
| category |
Titans in Greek mythology
ⓘ
linked to:
Titans of Greek mythology
Water gods in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| consort | Tethys ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Poseidon ⓘ |
| cosmicFunction | encircles the world ⓘ |
| cosmologicalPosition | outermost boundary of the world ⓘ |
| culture | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| didNotParticipateIn | Titanomachy ⓘ |
| domain |
river that surrounds the earth
ⓘ
waters at the edge of the world ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| greekName |
Ὠκεανός
ⓘ
linked to:
World Ocean
|
| latinName | Oceanus ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Iliad
ⓘ
linked to:
Homer's Iliad
Theogony ⓘ
linked to:
Hesiod's Theogony
|
| mythologicalGeneration | first generation of Titans ⓘ |
| offspring |
Oceanids
ⓘ
Potamoi ⓘ |
| offspringType |
river gods
ⓘ
water nymphs ⓘ |
| parent |
Gaia
ⓘ
Uranus ⓘ |
| poseidonRelation | distinct from the Olympian sea god Poseidon ⓘ |
| role |
personification of the world-encircling river
ⓘ
personification of water ⓘ |
| sibling |
Coeus
ⓘ
Crius ⓘ Cronus ⓘ Hyperion ⓘ Iapetus ⓘ Mnemosyne ⓘ Phoebe ⓘ Rhea ⓘ Tethys ⓘ Theia ⓘ Themis ⓘ |
| sourceWorkAuthor |
Hesiod
ⓘ
Homer ⓘ |
| symbol |
flowing water
ⓘ
great river encircling the earth ⓘ |
| typeOfWaterDeity | cosmic river god ⓘ |
| worshipType | primarily conceptual rather than cultic ⓘ |
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: Oceanus Description of subject: Oceanus is a primordial Titan in Greek mythology who personifies the vast, encircling river believed to surround the world.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Titans of Greek mythology
subject linked to:
age of the Titans
linked to: Oceanus
linked to: Oceanus
subject linked to:
river god Achelous