Echion
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Echion is a figure from Greek mythology, often identified as one of the Spartoi (sown men) of Thebes and associated with the royal Theban lineage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Echion canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5411032 — 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: Echion Context triple: [Agave, spouse, Echion]
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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.
Enipeus
Enipeus is a river god in Greek mythology, personifying a famous river of Thessaly and known for being the object of Tyro’s love.
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C.
Iasius
Iasius is a figure in Greek mythology, often identified with Iasion, who is associated with Demeter and sometimes regarded as a founder-hero linked to agriculture and mystery rites.
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D.
Heleus
Heleus is a figure in Greek mythology known as a son of Perseus and Andromeda.
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E.
Polybotes
Polybotes is a giant from Greek mythology best known for battling the sea god Poseidon during the Gigantomachy.
- 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: Echion Target entity description: Echion is a figure from Greek mythology, often identified as one of the Spartoi (sown men) of Thebes and associated with the royal Theban lineage.
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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.
Enipeus
Enipeus is a river god in Greek mythology, personifying a famous river of Thessaly and known for being the object of Tyro’s love.
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C.
Iasius
Iasius is a figure in Greek mythology, often identified with Iasion, who is associated with Demeter and sometimes regarded as a founder-hero linked to agriculture and mystery rites.
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D.
Heleus
Heleus is a figure in Greek mythology known as a son of Perseus and Andromeda.
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E.
Polybotes
Polybotes is a giant from Greek mythology best known for battling the sea god Poseidon during the Gigantomachy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spartoi
ⓘ
Theban hero ⓘ figure in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| appearsIn | myths of the founding of Thebes ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | sowing of the dragon’s teeth at Thebes ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Thebes
ⓘ
royal house of Thebes ⓘ
linked to:
Theban royal family
|
| category |
Characters in Greek mythology
ⓘ
Mythological Thebans ⓘ Spartoi ⓘ |
| child | Pentheus ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf | Cadmus ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Theban ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | dragon’s teeth sown by Cadmus ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| memberOf | Spartoi of Thebes ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Boeotian mythology ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Agave
ⓘ
Cadmus ⓘ Pentheus ⓘ |
| notedFor | being one of the sown men who survived and helped found Theban nobility ⓘ |
| parent | Echion ⓘ |
| roleInMyth | ancestor of Theban royal line ⓘ |
| servedAs | Theban noble ⓘ |
| spouse |
Agave
ⓘ
Echion ⓘ |
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: Echion Description of subject: Echion is a figure from Greek mythology, often identified as one of the Spartoi (sown men) of Thebes and associated with the royal Theban lineage.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.