Cynurus
E518784
Cynurus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known primarily as one of the sons of the hero Perseus and the eponymous founder of the city of Cynuria in the Peloponnese.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cynurus canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5431771 — 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: Cynurus Context triple: [Electryon, sibling, Cynurus]
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A.
Phaethusa
Phaethusa is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the daughters of Helios associated with the sun and often linked to the care of his sacred cattle.
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B.
Parabuteo
Parabuteo is a small genus of medium-to-large, social New World hawks in the family Accipitridae, best known for including the cooperative-hunting Harris's hawk.
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C.
Ardeotis
Ardeotis is a genus of large terrestrial birds in the bustard family, found in open grassland and semi-arid habitats across parts of Africa and Asia.
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D.
Sturnus
Sturnus is a genus of passerine birds in the starling family, historically including the European starling and several closely related species found across Eurasia and surrounding regions.
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E.
Coragyps
Coragyps is a genus of New World vultures best known for the black vulture, a scavenging bird widely distributed across the Americas.
- 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: Cynurus Target entity description: Cynurus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known primarily as one of the sons of the hero Perseus and the eponymous founder of the city of Cynuria in the Peloponnese.
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A.
Phaethusa
Phaethusa is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the daughters of Helios associated with the sun and often linked to the care of his sacred cattle.
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B.
Parabuteo
Parabuteo is a small genus of medium-to-large, social New World hawks in the family Accipitridae, best known for including the cooperative-hunting Harris's hawk.
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C.
Ardeotis
Ardeotis is a genus of large terrestrial birds in the bustard family, found in open grassland and semi-arid habitats across parts of Africa and Asia.
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D.
Sturnus
Sturnus is a genus of passerine birds in the starling family, historically including the European starling and several closely related species found across Eurasia and surrounding regions.
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E.
Coragyps
Coragyps is a genus of New World vultures best known for the black vulture, a scavenging bird widely distributed across the Americas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mythological person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Argos
ⓘ
Peloponnese ⓘ |
| category | Children of Perseus ⓘ |
| eponymOf | Cynuria ⓘ |
| father |
Perseus
ⓘ
linked to:
Perseus (son of Nestor)
|
| founderOf | Cynuria ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Pausanias’ Description of Greece ⓘ |
| mother | Andromeda ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being eponymous founder of Cynuria
ⓘ
being son of Perseus ⓘ |
| regionLinkedTo |
Argolis
ⓘ
Laconia ⓘ |
| sibling |
Alcaeus
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Autochthe ⓘ Electryon ⓘ Gorgophone ⓘ Heleus ⓘ Mestor ⓘ Perses ⓘ Sthenelus ⓘ |
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: Cynurus Description of subject: Cynurus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known primarily as one of the sons of the hero Perseus and the eponymous founder of the city of Cynuria in the Peloponnese.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.