Plexippus
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Plexippus is a figure in Greek mythology known as one of the sons of King Thestius and the brother of Althaea.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Plexippus canonical | 12 |
| Plexippus (son of Thestius) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5395599 — 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: Plexippus Context triple: [Althaea, sibling, Plexippus]
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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.
Phalaecus
Phalaecus was a 4th-century BCE Phocian military leader and general who played a key role in the later stages of the Third Sacred War in ancient Greece.
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C.
Perses
Perses is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology, sometimes associated with destruction or linked to the lineage of the goddess Hecate.
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D.
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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E.
Cercyon
Cercyon is a figure from Greek mythology, a violent bandit and wrestler slain by the hero Theseus during his journey to Athens.
- 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: Plexippus Target entity description: Plexippus is a figure in Greek mythology known as one of the sons of King Thestius and the brother of Althaea.
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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.
Phalaecus
Phalaecus was a 4th-century BCE Phocian military leader and general who played a key role in the later stages of the Third Sacred War in ancient Greece.
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C.
Perses
Perses is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology, sometimes associated with destruction or linked to the lineage of the goddess Hecate.
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D.
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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E.
Cercyon
Cercyon is a figure from Greek mythology, a violent bandit and wrestler slain by the hero Theseus during his journey to Athens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Greek mythology
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human ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| associatedDeity | Artemis ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Pleuron ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Calydonian Boar Hunt ⓘ |
| category |
Aetolian characters in Greek mythology
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Characters in the Calydonian Boar myth ⓘ Children of Thestius ⓘ |
| conflict | dispute over the Calydonian boar’s hide ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed by Meleager ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Aetolian ⓘ |
| father | Thestius ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literarySource |
Apollodorus
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linked to:
Apollodorus of Athens
Hyginus ⓘ |
| mother | Eurythemis ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Aetolian cycle ⓘ |
| nameTransliteration | Πλήξιππος ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Althaea
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Thestius ⓘ |
| relative | Meleager ⓘ |
| sibling |
Althaea
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Eurypylus ⓘ Evippus ⓘ Hypermnestra ⓘ Hyrmina ⓘ Iphiclus ⓘ Leda ⓘ Toxeus ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mythic age of heroes ⓘ |
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: Plexippus Description of subject: Plexippus is a figure in Greek mythology known as one of the sons of King Thestius and the brother of Althaea.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.