Orthagoras
E414004
Orthagoras was an early tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon, traditionally regarded as the founder of a ruling dynasty there in the 7th century BCE.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Orthagoras canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4110134 — 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: Orthagoras Context triple: [Sicyon, notableRuler, Orthagoras]
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A.
Ariphron
Ariphron was an Athenian statesman of the 5th century BCE, known primarily as the elder brother of the famous orator Pericles.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Stilpo
Stilpo was an influential 4th–3rd century BCE Greek philosopher known for his leadership of the Megarian school and his sharp dialectical skill.
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D.
Zaleucus
Zaleucus was an early Greek lawgiver, traditionally credited with creating one of the first written legal codes in the Western world for the colony of Locri Epizephyrii in southern Italy.
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E.
Hermotimus of Clazomenae
Hermotimus of Clazomenae was a semi-legendary pre-Socratic figure from Ionia, often cited in ancient sources as an early thinker associated with ideas about the soul’s separation from the body and later linked, perhaps apocryphally, to the philosophy of Anaxagoras.
- 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: Orthagoras Target entity description: Orthagoras was an early tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon, traditionally regarded as the founder of a ruling dynasty there in the 7th century BCE.
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A.
Ariphron
Ariphron was an Athenian statesman of the 5th century BCE, known primarily as the elder brother of the famous orator Pericles.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Stilpo
Stilpo was an influential 4th–3rd century BCE Greek philosopher known for his leadership of the Megarian school and his sharp dialectical skill.
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D.
Zaleucus
Zaleucus was an early Greek lawgiver, traditionally credited with creating one of the first written legal codes in the Western world for the colony of Locri Epizephyrii in southern Italy.
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E.
Hermotimus of Clazomenae
Hermotimus of Clazomenae was a semi-legendary pre-Socratic figure from Ionia, often cited in ancient sources as an early thinker associated with ideas about the soul’s separation from the body and later linked, perhaps apocryphally, to the philosophy of Anaxagoras.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek tyrant
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human ⓘ ruler of Sicyon ⓘ |
| chronology | preceded the rule of Cleisthenes of Sicyon ⓘ |
| country | Sicyon ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Greek ⓘ |
| dynastyFounded | Orthagorid dynasty ⓘ |
| ethnicContext | associated with anti-Dorian policies in Sicyon tradition ⓘ |
| fieldOfSignificance | Greek political history ⓘ |
| governed | citizens of Sicyon ⓘ |
| historicalTradition | known mainly from later ancient sources ⓘ |
| historicity | partly legendary or semi-legendary figure ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding the Orthagorid dynasty in Sicyon ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | 7th century BCE ⓘ |
| notableRole | early non-Dorian ruler in a traditionally Dorian city ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Peloponnese
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Sicyon ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | tyranny ⓘ |
| positionHeld | tyrant of Sicyon ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| successor |
Andreas (Orthagorid dynasty)
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Aristonymus (Orthagorid dynasty) ⓘ Cleisthenes of Sicyon ⓘ Myron (Orthagorid dynasty) ⓘ
linked to:
Myron
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| temporalClassification |
Archaic period of ancient Greece
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linked to:
Archaic period
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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: Orthagoras Description of subject: Orthagoras was an early tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon, traditionally regarded as the founder of a ruling dynasty there in the 7th century BCE.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.