Actaeon
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Actaeon is a hunter in Greek mythology who was transformed into a stag and killed by his own hounds after glimpsing the goddess Artemis bathing.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Actaeon canonical | 12 |
| The Coming of War: Actaeon | 1 |
| myth of Actaeon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3863886 — 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: Actaeon Context triple: [Aristaeus, parent, Actaeon]
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A.
Diana and Actaeon
"Diana and Actaeon" is a renowned mythological painting by Titian depicting the moment the hunter Actaeon intrudes upon the goddess Diana bathing, capturing dramatic tension and rich Venetian color.
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B.
Calydonian Boar Hunt
The Calydonian Boar Hunt is a famous episode in Greek mythology in which many of the greatest heroes banded together to slay a monstrous boar sent by Artemis to ravage the land of Calydon.
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C.
Pirithous
Pirithous is a figure in Greek mythology, king of the Lapiths, best known for his close companionship with the hero Theseus and their joint adventures.
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D.
Faunus
Faunus is the Roman god of forests, fields, and rustic fertility, closely associated with nature, wildlife, and pastoral life.
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E.
Sophillus
Sophillus was the father of the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, about whom little is known beyond his paternal connection to the playwright.
- 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: Actaeon Target entity description: Actaeon is a hunter in Greek mythology who was transformed into a stag and killed by his own hounds after glimpsing the goddess Artemis bathing.
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A.
Diana and Actaeon
"Diana and Actaeon" is a renowned mythological painting by Titian depicting the moment the hunter Actaeon intrudes upon the goddess Diana bathing, capturing dramatic tension and rich Venetian color.
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B.
Calydonian Boar Hunt
The Calydonian Boar Hunt is a famous episode in Greek mythology in which many of the greatest heroes banded together to slay a monstrous boar sent by Artemis to ravage the land of Calydon.
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C.
Pirithous
Pirithous is a figure in Greek mythology, king of the Lapiths, best known for his close companionship with the hero Theseus and their joint adventures.
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D.
Faunus
Faunus is the Roman god of forests, fields, and rustic fertility, closely associated with nature, wildlife, and pastoral life.
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E.
Sophillus
Sophillus was the father of the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, about whom little is known beyond his paternal connection to the playwright.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
hunter ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book 3
ⓘ
linked to:
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
|
| associatedWith |
Artemis
ⓘ
Thebes ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | being torn apart by his hounds ⓘ |
| culture |
Ancient Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| family | House of Cadmus ⓘ |
| father | Aristaeus ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | myth ⓘ |
| grandfather | Cadmus ⓘ |
| hasCompanions | hunting dogs ⓘ |
| hasDepictionIn |
Greek vase painting
ⓘ
Renaissance painting ⓘ Roman wall painting ⓘ |
| killedBy | his own hounds ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being killed by his own hunting dogs
ⓘ
being transformed into a stag ⓘ seeing Artemis bathing ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySources |
Ancient Greek
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| literarySource |
Euripides’ lost tragedy "Bacchae" tradition
ⓘ
Ovid’s Metamorphoses ⓘ |
| mother |
Autonoe
ⓘ
linked to:
Autonoë
|
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| notableTheme |
boundary between human and animal
ⓘ
punishment for seeing a deity in an intimate state ⓘ |
| occupation | hunter ⓘ |
| oftenDepictedWith |
Artemis at the moment of discovery
ⓘ
antlers ⓘ pack of hounds ⓘ |
| punishedBy | Artemis ⓘ |
| reasonForPunishment |
seeing Artemis naked
ⓘ
violating the goddess’s privacy ⓘ |
| region | Boeotia ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
divine retribution
ⓘ
sacred modesty ⓘ |
| relatedDeity |
Apollo (through family connections)
ⓘ
Artemis ⓘ |
| speciesAfterTransformation | stag ⓘ |
| symbolism |
danger of hubris toward the gods
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perils of the gaze ⓘ victim of divine wrath ⓘ |
| transformationCause |
curse of Artemis
ⓘ
linked to:
wrath of Artemis
|
| transformedInto | stag ⓘ |
| typeOfMyth |
hunting myth
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punishment myth ⓘ |
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: Actaeon Description of subject: Actaeon is a hunter in Greek mythology who was transformed into a stag and killed by his own hounds after glimpsing the goddess Artemis bathing.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.