Dorus
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Dorus is a figure in Greek mythology regarded as the eponymous ancestor of the Dorian people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorus canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3793895 — 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: Dorus Context triple: [Dorians, mythologicalAncestry, Dorus]
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A.
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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B.
Ariaeus
Ariaeus was a Persian military commander who served under Cyrus the Younger during his campaign against Artaxerxes II.
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C.
Artemios
Artemios is the given first name of Greek singer Demis Roussos, an internationally renowned pop and rock vocalist.
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D.
Agrius
Agrius is a figure from Greek mythology known as one of the sons of the sorceress Circe.
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E.
Datis
Datis was a Persian military commander of the Achaemenid Empire who led the expedition against Greece that culminated in the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
- 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: Dorus Target entity description: Dorus is a figure in Greek mythology regarded as the eponymous ancestor of the Dorian people.
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A.
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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B.
Ariaeus
Ariaeus was a Persian military commander who served under Cyrus the Younger during his campaign against Artaxerxes II.
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C.
Artemios
Artemios is the given first name of Greek singer Demis Roussos, an internationally renowned pop and rock vocalist.
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D.
Agrius
Agrius is a figure from Greek mythology known as one of the sons of the sorceress Circe.
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E.
Datis
Datis was a Persian military commander of the Achaemenid Empire who led the expedition against Greece that culminated in the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek mythological figure
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mythological figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dorian Greeks
ⓘ
linked to:
Dorians
Dorian ethnogenesis ⓘ |
| category |
Characters in Greek mythology
ⓘ
Eponymous ancestors in mythology ⓘ Mythological progenitors ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek mythology ⓘ |
| eponymOf |
Dorian people
ⓘ
Dorians ⓘ |
| ethnicAncestorOf |
Dorian people
ⓘ
Dorians ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasDomain | Greek heroic and genealogical myth ⓘ |
| hasNameEtymology | derived from the name of the Dorians ⓘ |
| hasNameInGreek | Δῶρος ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Greek mythological tradition ⓘ |
| mythologicalType |
ancestor figure
ⓘ
culture hero ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Dorian dialect
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Dorian invasion ⓘ Dorian tribes ⓘ |
| role | eponymous ancestor ⓘ |
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: Dorus Description of subject: Dorus is a figure in Greek mythology regarded as the eponymous ancestor of the Dorian people.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.