Polymestor
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Polymestor is a Thracian king in Greek mythology, best known for betraying and murdering the young Trojan prince Polydorus for gold and later being brutally punished by Hecuba in Euripides’ tragedy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Polymestor canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5363958 — 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: Polymestor Context triple: [Hecuba (Euripides), mainCharacter, Polymestor]
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A.
Eurytion
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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B.
Steropes
Steropes is a one-eyed giant from Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes known for forging Zeus’s thunderbolts.
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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.
Erichthonius
Erichthonius is a legendary early king of Dardania in Greek mythology, often regarded as an ancestor of the Trojan royal line.
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E.
Perses
Perses is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology, sometimes associated with destruction or linked to the lineage of the goddess Hecate.
- 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: Polymestor Target entity description: Polymestor is a Thracian king in Greek mythology, best known for betraying and murdering the young Trojan prince Polydorus for gold and later being brutally punished by Hecuba in Euripides’ tragedy.
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A.
Eurytion
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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B.
Steropes
Steropes is a one-eyed giant from Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes known for forging Zeus’s thunderbolts.
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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.
Erichthonius
Erichthonius is a legendary early king of Dardania in Greek mythology, often regarded as an ancestor of the Trojan royal line.
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E.
Perses
Perses is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology, sometimes associated with destruction or linked to the lineage of the goddess Hecate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Thracian king
ⓘ
character in Greek mythology ⓘ mythological king ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Euripides’ Hecuba
ⓘ
linked to:
Hecuba (Euripides)
|
| associatedWith |
Euripides
ⓘ
Hecuba ⓘ Polydorus ⓘ Priam ⓘ Thrace ⓘ Troy ⓘ |
| betrayed |
Polydorus
ⓘ
Priam ⓘ |
| characterType | treacherous host ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Hecuba
ⓘ
Trojan captives ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Classical Athens’ reception of Trojan War myths ⓘ |
| family | sons of Polymestor (unnamed in Euripides’ Hecuba) ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext | Attic tragedy ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Polydorus ⓘ |
| knownAs | Polymnestor ⓘ |
| literarySource |
Euripides’ tragedy Hecuba
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linked to:
Euripides’ Trojan plays
later mythographic traditions ⓘ |
| moralCharacteristic |
cowardly
ⓘ
greedy ⓘ treacherous ⓘ |
| motiveForMurder | desire to seize Priam’s gold ⓘ |
| murdered | Polydorus ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being punished and blinded by Hecuba
ⓘ
betraying Priam’s trust ⓘ greed for gold ⓘ murdering Polydorus ⓘ |
| prophecyInvolved | his downfall foretold in Euripides’ Hecuba ⓘ |
| punishedBy |
Hecuba
ⓘ
Trojan women ⓘ
linked to:
Trojan Women (Euripides)
|
| punishment |
blinded by Hecuba
ⓘ
sons killed by Hecuba and Trojan women ⓘ |
| receivedFrom | gold from Priam as safeguard for Polydorus ⓘ |
| roleInWork | antagonist in Euripides’ Hecuba ⓘ |
| spouse | Ilione ⓘ |
| themeAssociated |
betrayal of xenia (guest-friendship)
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corrupting power of wealth ⓘ retributive justice ⓘ |
| timeOfAction | after the fall of Troy ⓘ |
| victimOf | revenge of Hecuba ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Polymestor Description of subject: Polymestor is a Thracian king in Greek mythology, best known for betraying and murdering the young Trojan prince Polydorus for gold and later being brutally punished by Hecuba in Euripides’ tragedy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.