Athamas
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Athamas is a king in Greek mythology, best known for his tragic family saga involving his children and his second wife Ino.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Athamas canonical | 28 |
| Athamas (son of Oenopion) | 2 |
| Athamas (disputed/incorrect in some later sources) | 1 |
| Athamas (son of Minyas) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5410976 — 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: Athamas Context triple: [Ino, spouseOf, Athamas]
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A.
Aeëtes
Aeëtes is a king in Greek mythology, best known as the ruler of Colchis and keeper of the Golden Fleece.
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B.
Oeneus
Oeneus is a king in Greek mythology, best known as the ruler of Calydon and the father of Deianira and Meleager.
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C.
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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D.
Amphion
Amphion is a figure in Greek mythology, famed as the musically gifted son of Zeus who, with his brother Zethus, built the walls of Thebes by charming stones into place with his lyre.
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E.
Polymestor
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.
- 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: Athamas Target entity description: Athamas is a king in Greek mythology, best known for his tragic family saga involving his children and his second wife Ino.
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A.
Aeëtes
Aeëtes is a king in Greek mythology, best known as the ruler of Colchis and keeper of the Golden Fleece.
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B.
Oeneus
Oeneus is a king in Greek mythology, best known as the ruler of Calydon and the father of Deianira and Meleager.
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C.
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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D.
Amphion
Amphion is a figure in Greek mythology, famed as the musically gifted son of Zeus who, with his brother Zethus, built the walls of Thebes by charming stones into place with his lyre.
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E.
Polymestor
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mythological king ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
golden ram
ⓘ
madness sent by Hera ⓘ myth of the Golden Fleece ⓘ tragedy of his children ⓘ |
| causeOfEvent |
death of Learchus
ⓘ
flight of Phrixus and Helle on the golden ram ⓘ transformation of Melicertes into the sea-god Palaemon ⓘ |
| childWithIno |
Learchus
ⓘ
Melicertes ⓘ |
| childWithNephele |
Helle
ⓘ
Phrixus ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek mythology ⓘ |
| family |
House of Athamas
ⓘ
linked to:
House of Tantalus
|
| father |
Helle
ⓘ
Learchus ⓘ Melicertes ⓘ Phrixus ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | heroic myth ⓘ |
| languageOfTradition | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica
ⓘ
linked to:
Argonautica
Ovid’s Metamorphoses ⓘ Pindar’s odes ⓘ
linked to:
Pindar's odes
|
| mythologicalRole |
king of Boeotia
ⓘ
king of Orchomenus ⓘ |
| mythType | tragic royal saga ⓘ |
| notableMyth |
Athamas’ divinely induced insanity
ⓘ
Helle’s fall into the Hellespont ⓘ plot by Ino to destroy Phrixus ⓘ |
| opposedByDeity | Hera ⓘ |
| patronDeity | Hera ⓘ |
| punishedBy | Hera ⓘ |
| region | Boeotia ⓘ |
| relatedMyth |
Argonauts’ quest for the Golden Fleece
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linked to:
guardians of the Golden Fleece
|
| residence |
Boeotia
ⓘ
Orchomenus ⓘ
linked to:
Orchomenus (Arcadia)
|
| spouse |
Ino
ⓘ
Nephele ⓘ Themisto ⓘ |
| stepmotherOf |
Helle
ⓘ
Phrixus ⓘ |
| victimOf |
Hera’s wrath
ⓘ
Ino’s intrigues ⓘ |
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: Athamas Description of subject: Athamas is a king in Greek mythology, best known for his tragic family saga involving his children and his second wife Ino.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
sea goddess Leucothea
subject linked to:
Helle (through Athamas)
subject linked to:
Helle (through Athamas)
linked to: Athamas
subject linked to:
ram Chrysomallos