Aegialos
E414001
Aegialos was the ancient name of the Greek city-state later known as Sicyon, located in the northern Peloponnese.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4110128 — 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: Aegialos Context triple: [Sicyon, earlierName, Aegialos]
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A.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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B.
Drypetis
Drypetis was a Persian princess of the Achaemenid dynasty, daughter of Darius III, who became the wife of Alexander the Great’s close companion Hephaestion.
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C.
Maurus
Maurus is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with early Christian saints and used as a variant of names like Maurice.
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D.
Eupator
Eupator is an epithet meaning "of a noble father," famously borne by Mithridates VI, the powerful king of Pontus and adversary of Rome.
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E.
Lychnidus
Lychnidus was an ancient town in the Balkans, near Lake Ohrid, that served as an important stop along the Roman Via Egnatia trade and military route.
- 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: Aegialos Target entity description: Aegialos was the ancient name of the Greek city-state later known as Sicyon, located in the northern Peloponnese.
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A.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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B.
Drypetis
Drypetis was a Persian princess of the Achaemenid dynasty, daughter of Darius III, who became the wife of Alexander the Great’s close companion Hephaestion.
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C.
Maurus
Maurus is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with early Christian saints and used as a variant of names like Maurice.
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D.
Eupator
Eupator is an epithet meaning "of a noble father," famously borne by Mithridates VI, the powerful king of Pontus and adversary of Rome.
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E.
Lychnidus
Lychnidus was an ancient town in the Balkans, near Lake Ohrid, that served as an important stop along the Roman Via Egnatia trade and military route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek city-state
ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ |
| hasCulture | Greek ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalContinuityAs | Sicyon ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| hasModernName | Sicyon ⓘ |
| hasNameEtymology | derived from Greek word for "coast" or "shore" (aigialos) ⓘ |
| hasRegionRole | coastal urban center in northern Peloponnese ⓘ |
| hasType | polis ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy | ancient Greeks ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | Sicyon ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Peloponnese
ⓘ
ancient Greece ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
northern Peloponnese ⓘ |
| locatedOn | northern coast of the Peloponnese ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | ancient Greek historical tradition about early Peloponnesian cities ⓘ |
| partOf |
ancient Peloponnesian city-states
ⓘ
region of Achaea (mythic-historical) in Greece ⓘ |
| precedes |
classical-period Sicyon
ⓘ
linked to:
agora of Sikyon
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| situatedNear | Gulf of Corinth ⓘ |
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: Aegialos Description of subject: Aegialos was the ancient name of the Greek city-state later known as Sicyon, located in the northern Peloponnese.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ion (mythological figure)
linked to: Aegialos