Eurytion
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Eurytion is a herdsman in Greek mythology best known for guarding the cattle of the three-bodied giant Geryon, whom Heracles killed during his tenth labor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eurytion canonical | 6 |
| Eurytion the centaur | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4994183 — 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: Eurytion Context triple: [Cattle of Geryon, herdedBy, Eurytion]
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A.
Heleus
Heleus is a figure in Greek mythology known as a son of Perseus and Andromeda.
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B.
Inachus
Inachus is a river god in Greek mythology, regarded as the first king of Argos and the progenitor of several important mythological figures.
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C.
Euphranor
Euphranor is a central philosophical interlocutor in George Berkeley’s dialogue "Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher," representing the Christian perspective in debates against freethinkers.
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D.
Cycnus
Cycnus is a figure from Greek mythology, known primarily as a formidable warrior who battles Heracles in the ancient poem "Shield of Heracles."
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E.
Alcathous
Alcathous is the ancient acropolis of the Greek city of Megara, serving as its fortified citadel and religious center.
- 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: Eurytion Target entity description: Eurytion is a herdsman in Greek mythology best known for guarding the cattle of the three-bodied giant Geryon, whom Heracles killed during his tenth labor.
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A.
Heleus
Heleus is a figure in Greek mythology known as a son of Perseus and Andromeda.
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B.
Inachus
Inachus is a river god in Greek mythology, regarded as the first king of Argos and the progenitor of several important mythological figures.
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C.
Euphranor
Euphranor is a central philosophical interlocutor in George Berkeley’s dialogue "Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher," representing the Christian perspective in debates against freethinkers.
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D.
Cycnus
Cycnus is a figure from Greek mythology, known primarily as a formidable warrior who battles Heracles in the ancient poem "Shield of Heracles."
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E.
Alcathous
Alcathous is the ancient acropolis of the Greek city of Megara, serving as its fortified citadel and religious center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
herdsman ⓘ |
| appearsIn | myth of the cattle of Geryon ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Geryon
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Heracles ⓘ |
| employer | Geryon ⓘ |
| guarded | cattle of Geryon ⓘ |
| killedBy | Heracles ⓘ |
| killedDuring | tenth labour of Heracles ⓘ |
| killedWith | club of Heracles ⓘ |
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| occupation | herdsman ⓘ |
| relatedEvent |
Heracles’ cattle-raid of Geryon
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linked to:
Cattle of Geryon
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| residence | Erytheia ⓘ |
| roleInMyth | guardian of Geryon’s cattle ⓘ |
| source |
Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.5.10
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linked to:
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Hesiodic tradition about Geryon’s cattle ⓘ |
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: Eurytion Description of subject: Eurytion is a herdsman in Greek mythology best known for guarding the cattle of the three-bodied giant Geryon, whom Heracles killed during his tenth labor.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
object to be stolen by Heracles
subject linked to:
object to be stolen by Heracles
linked to: Eurytion