Nycteis
E518014
Nycteis is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the wife of Polydorus, a king of Thebes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nycteis canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5411096 — 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: Nycteis Context triple: [Polydorus, spouse, Nycteis]
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A.
Philyra
Philyra is an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the centaur Chiron.
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B.
Anxur
Anxur was an important ancient Volscian city in central Italy, later known as Tarracina under Roman rule.
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C.
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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D.
Vicetia
Vicetia, known today as Vicenza, is an historic city in northeastern Italy that was a significant center of the ancient Veneti people and is now renowned for its Palladian architecture and UNESCO World Heritage status.
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E.
Asterope
Asterope is a figure from Greek mythology, often identified as one of the Pleiad nymphs and associated with the star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
- 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: Nycteis Target entity description: Nycteis is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the wife of Polydorus, a king of Thebes.
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A.
Philyra
Philyra is an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the centaur Chiron.
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B.
Anxur
Anxur was an important ancient Volscian city in central Italy, later known as Tarracina under Roman rule.
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C.
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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D.
Vicetia
Vicetia, known today as Vicenza, is an historic city in northeastern Italy that was a significant center of the ancient Veneti people and is now renowned for its Palladian architecture and UNESCO World Heritage status.
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E.
Asterope
Asterope is a figure from Greek mythology, often identified as one of the Pleiad nymphs and associated with the star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Greek mythology
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human ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Theban royal family ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Thebes ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| hasRole | queen of Thebes ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | traditions about the royal house of Thebes ⓘ |
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| spouse |
Nycteis
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Polydorus ⓘ |
| spouseOfTitle | king of Thebes ⓘ |
| title | king of Thebes ⓘ |
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: Nycteis Description of subject: Nycteis is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the wife of Polydorus, a king of Thebes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.