Achilles
E31264
Achilles is a legendary Greek hero of the Trojan War, famed for his near invincibility, martial prowess, and central role in Homer's Iliad.
All labels observed (16)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Achilles canonical | 194 |
| Achille | 3 |
| Aquiles | 2 |
| Achilles (with Apollo’s help) | 1 |
| Achilles and Memnon | 1 |
| Achilles by Peleus | 1 |
| Achilles falls in love with her at the moment of her death | 1 |
| Achilles from Greek mythology | 1 |
| Achilles – Brad Pitt | 1 |
| Achilles’ alias Pyrrhus | 1 |
| Achilles’ heel | 1 |
| English Achilles | 1 |
| mênis of Achilles | 1 |
| Αχιλλέας | 1 |
| Ἀχιλλεύς | 1 |
| Ἀχιλλεύς (Achilleus) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156948 — 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: Achilles Context triple: [Ancient Greek religion, hasMythologicalFigure, Achilles]
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A.
Heracles
Heracles is a legendary hero of Greek mythology renowned for his superhuman strength and his completion of the Twelve Labors.
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B.
Odysseus
Odysseus is the cunning Greek hero and king of Ithaca renowned for his long, perilous journey home after the Trojan War as depicted in ancient epic poetry.
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C.
Perseus
Perseus is a legendary Greek hero famed for slaying the Gorgon Medusa and rescuing Andromeda.
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D.
Ares
Ares is the Greek god of war, embodying the brutal and chaotic aspects of battle in ancient Greek mythology.
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E.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
- 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: Achilles Target entity description: Achilles is a legendary Greek hero of the Trojan War, famed for his near invincibility, martial prowess, and central role in Homer's Iliad.
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A.
Heracles
Heracles is a legendary hero of Greek mythology renowned for his superhuman strength and his completion of the Twelve Labors.
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B.
Odysseus
Odysseus is the cunning Greek hero and king of Ithaca renowned for his long, perilous journey home after the Trojan War as depicted in ancient epic poetry.
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C.
Perseus
Perseus is a legendary Greek hero famed for slaying the Gorgon Medusa and rescuing Andromeda.
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D.
Ares
Ares is the Greek god of war, embodying the brutal and chaotic aspects of battle in ancient Greek mythology.
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E.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek mythological figure
ⓘ
Homeric character ⓘ mythological hero ⓘ |
| ancestor | Zeus ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Aethiopis (lost epic)
ⓘ
linked to:
Epic Cycle
Cypria (lost epic) ⓘ
linked to:
Epic Cycle
Iliad ⓘ
linked to:
Homer's Iliad
Posthomerica ⓘ various Greek tragedies ⓘ |
| armor | armor forged by Hephaestus ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
heroic wrath
ⓘ
kleos (glory) ⓘ tragic fate ⓘ |
| closeCompanion | Patroclus ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Homer (traditional attribution)
ⓘ
linked to:
Homer
|
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| deathCause | arrow to the heel ⓘ |
| enemy |
Agamemnon
ⓘ
Hector ⓘ Paris ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Myrmidon ⓘ |
| father | Peleus ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandfather | Aeacus ⓘ |
| killedBy | Paris ⓘ |
| kills |
Hector
ⓘ
Memnon (in later tradition) ⓘ Penthesilea (in later tradition) ⓘ |
| knownFor | Achilles’ heel metaphor ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| leads |
Myrmidons
ⓘ
linked to:
Myrmidon
|
| mentor | Chiron ⓘ |
| mother |
Thetis
ⓘ
linked to:
Amphitrite
|
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| nameInGreek |
Ἀχιλλεύς (Achilleus)
ⓘ
linked to:
Achilles
|
| notableFor |
Trojan War
ⓘ
martial prowess ⓘ near invincibility ⓘ role in the Iliad ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Siege of Troy
ⓘ
linked to:
Trojan War
|
| raisedIn | Phthia ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Achaeans ⓘ |
| spouseOrLover | Briseis (traditional association) ⓘ |
| symbolizes | the greatest Greek warrior ⓘ |
| vulnerablePoint | heel ⓘ |
| weapon |
spear
ⓘ
sword ⓘ |
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: Achilles Description of subject: Achilles is a legendary Greek hero of the Trojan War, famed for his near invincibility, martial prowess, and central role in Homer's Iliad.
Referenced by (212)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Homer's Iliad
linked to: Achilles
linked to: Achilles
linked to: Achilles
subject linked to:
Troy
subject linked to:
Troy
linked to: Achilles
subject linked to:
Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)
linked to: Achilles
linked to: Achilles
subject linked to:
Briseis (traditional association)
subject linked to:
Briseis (traditional association)
subject linked to:
Briseis (traditional association)