Erichthonius
E281620
Erichthonius is a legendary early king of Dardania in Greek mythology, often regarded as an ancestor of the Trojan royal line.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Erichthonius of Dardania | 5 |
| Erichthonius canonical | 3 |
| Ἐριχθόνιος | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2612748 — 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: Erichthonius Context triple: [Dardanus, child, Erichthonius]
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A.
Cretheus
Cretheus is a figure in Greek mythology, a king of Iolcus and ancestor of the hero Jason.
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B.
Aristaeus
Aristaeus is a minor Greek god associated with agriculture, beekeeping, and pastoral pursuits, often revered as a culture hero who taught humans various rural arts.
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C.
Demophon
Demophon is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as one of the sons of the Athenian hero Theseus and later a king of Athens.
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D.
Acrisius
Acrisius is a king in Greek mythology, best known as the father of Danaë and the ill-fated grandfather of the hero Perseus.
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E.
Steropes
Steropes is a one-eyed giant from Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes known for forging Zeus’s thunderbolts.
- 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: Erichthonius Target entity description: Erichthonius is a legendary early king of Dardania in Greek mythology, often regarded as an ancestor of the Trojan royal line.
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A.
Cretheus
Cretheus is a figure in Greek mythology, a king of Iolcus and ancestor of the hero Jason.
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B.
Aristaeus
Aristaeus is a minor Greek god associated with agriculture, beekeeping, and pastoral pursuits, often revered as a culture hero who taught humans various rural arts.
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C.
Demophon
Demophon is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as one of the sons of the Athenian hero Theseus and later a king of Athens.
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D.
Acrisius
Acrisius is a king in Greek mythology, best known as the father of Danaë and the ill-fated grandfather of the hero Perseus.
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E.
Steropes
Steropes is a one-eyed giant from Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes known for forging Zeus’s thunderbolts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Erichthonius Description of subject: Erichthonius is a legendary early king of Dardania in Greek mythology, often regarded as an ancestor of the Trojan royal line.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Erichthonius
linked to: Erichthonius
linked to: Erichthonius
linked to: Erichthonius