Lycomède
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Lycomède is a character from Greek mythology, traditionally depicted as a king associated with the stories surrounding Achilles and other heroic figures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lycomède canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5455781 — 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: Lycomède Context triple: [Alceste, hasCharacter, Lycomède]
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A.
Anticlea
Anticlea is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the hero Odysseus and the wife of Laertes.
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B.
Creusa
Creusa is a figure in Greek mythology, often depicted as an Athenian princess and mother of Ion in Euripides’ tragedy.
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C.
Creusa
Creusa is a figure in Greek mythology, best known as a Trojan princess and the wife of the hero Aeneas.
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D.
Hippolyte
Hippolyte is the given name of Hippolyte Fizeau, a 19th-century French physicist known for pioneering measurements of the speed of light.
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E.
Polydeukes
Polydeukes is a hero from Greek mythology, one of the Dioscuri twins (with his brother Castor), renowned as a skilled boxer and protector of sailors.
- 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: Lycomède Target entity description: Lycomède is a character from Greek mythology, traditionally depicted as a king associated with the stories surrounding Achilles and other heroic figures.
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A.
Anticlea
Anticlea is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the hero Odysseus and the wife of Laertes.
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B.
Creusa
Creusa is a figure in Greek mythology, often depicted as an Athenian princess and mother of Ion in Euripides’ tragedy.
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C.
Creusa
Creusa is a figure in Greek mythology, best known as a Trojan princess and the wife of the hero Aeneas.
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D.
Hippolyte
Hippolyte is the given name of Hippolyte Fizeau, a 19th-century French physicist known for pioneering measurements of the speed of light.
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E.
Polydeukes
Polydeukes is a hero from Greek mythology, one of the Dioscuri twins (with his brother Castor), renowned as a skilled boxer and protector of sailors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Greek mythology
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human ⓘ mythological Greek king ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
myths about the youth of Achilles
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traditions about the Trojan War cycle ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Achilles
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Deidamia ⓘ Diomedes ⓘ Neoptolemus ⓘ Odysseus ⓘ Thetis ⓘ Trojan War ⓘ |
| country | Scyros ⓘ |
| culture |
Ancient Greece
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linked to:
Greek Antiquity
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| fictionalUniverse | mythological cycle of the Trojan War ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| GreekName | Λυκομήδης ⓘ |
| hasDaughter |
Deidamia
ⓘ
multiple unnamed daughters ⓘ |
| hasPalace | palace on the island of Scyros ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | mythology ⓘ |
| mythologicalEvent |
Achilles disguised as a girl among Lycomède’s daughters
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concealment of Achilles on Scyros ⓘ discovery of Achilles by Odysseus on Scyros ⓘ |
| mythologicalStatus | mortal ⓘ |
| narrativeConnection |
Achilles and Deidamia conceive Neoptolemus in his palace
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Achilles is sent to Lycomède by Thetis to avoid the Trojan War ⓘ Odysseus and Diomedes visit Lycomède to recruit Achilles for the Trojan War ⓘ |
| notableAction |
allowing Achilles to live among his daughters
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sheltering Achilles in female disguise ⓘ |
| offspring | Deidamia ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | local ruler of a small Aegean island ⓘ |
| positionHeld | king of Scyros ⓘ |
| residence | Scyros ⓘ |
| roleInMyth |
father of Deidamia, lover of Achilles
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grandfather of Neoptolemus ⓘ host of Achilles on Scyros ⓘ |
| sourceTradition | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| spelledAs |
Lycomedes
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Lykomedes ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mythical 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: Lycomède Description of subject: Lycomède is a character from Greek mythology, traditionally depicted as a king associated with the stories surrounding Achilles and other heroic figures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.