Phyllis
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Phyllis is a tragic figure from classical legend, often depicted as a wronged lover who is transformed into an almond tree after being abandoned.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phyllis canonical | 21 |
| Fair Phyllis | 3 |
| shepherdess Phyllis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2727919 — 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: Phyllis Context triple: [The Legend of Good Women, containsStoryOf, Phyllis]
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A.
Phyllis
Phyllis is a 1970s American television sitcom, spun off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, that stars Cloris Leachman as the widowed Phyllis Lindstrom starting a new life in San Francisco.
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B.
Ethel
Ethel is a feminine given name of Old English origin, historically popular in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Phylicia
Phylicia is a feminine given name best known through American actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
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D.
Barbara
Barbara is a station on Paris Métro Line 4 serving the southern suburbs of the French capital.
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E.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
- 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: Phyllis Target entity description: Phyllis is a tragic figure from classical legend, often depicted as a wronged lover who is transformed into an almond tree after being abandoned.
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A.
Phyllis
Phyllis is a 1970s American television sitcom, spun off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, that stars Cloris Leachman as the widowed Phyllis Lindstrom starting a new life in San Francisco.
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B.
Ethel
Ethel is a feminine given name of Old English origin, historically popular in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Phylicia
Phylicia is a feminine given name best known through American actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
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D.
Barbara
Barbara is a station on Paris Métro Line 4 serving the southern suburbs of the French capital.
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E.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Greek mythology
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mythological figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Greek mythological tradition ⓘ |
| associatedMotif | tree metamorphosis ⓘ |
| associatedPlant | almond tree ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Demophon ⓘ |
| causeOfTransformation | abandonment by Demophon ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek mythology ⓘ |
| emotionalState |
despair
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sorrow ⓘ |
| fate | suicide in some versions of the myth ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| legacy |
inspiration for later literary works
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subject of classical art ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | classical legend ⓘ |
| moralLesson |
constancy in love
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dangers of broken promises ⓘ |
| mythType |
etiological myth
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love myth ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | tragic heroine ⓘ |
| narrativeOutcome | death followed by metamorphosis ⓘ |
| notableFor |
tragic love story
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transformation into an almond tree ⓘ |
| regionInMyth | Thrace ⓘ |
| relationship | lover of Demophon ⓘ |
| roleInMyth | wronged lover ⓘ |
| symbolism |
faithful love
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grief ⓘ metamorphosis ⓘ |
| theme |
betrayal
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loyalty ⓘ transformation ⓘ unrequited love ⓘ |
| transformation | almond tree ⓘ |
| transformationType | human to plant ⓘ |
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: Phyllis Description of subject: Phyllis is a tragic figure from classical legend, often depicted as a wronged lover who is transformed into an almond tree after being abandoned.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Phyllis
linked to: Phyllis
linked to: Phyllis
subject linked to:
the madrigal Fair Phyllis
linked to: Phyllis