Metus
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Metus is the Roman personification and god of fear and dread, corresponding to the Greek deity Phobos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5809666 — 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: Metus Context triple: [Phobos (Fear), romanEquivalent, Metus]
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A.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois refers to a person from the city of Auxerre in France, and by extension can also denote things associated with that city.
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B.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois is a French red wine grape variety more commonly known as Malbec, widely used in robust, deeply colored wines.
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C.
Iberus
Iberus is the ancient Latin name for the Ebro River, one of the major rivers of the Iberian Peninsula in present-day Spain.
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D.
Gelonus
Gelonus was an ancient fortified city traditionally identified as a major cultural and commercial center of the Scythians in the region north of the Black Sea.
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E.
Grimus
Grimus is Salman Rushdie’s debut novel, a genre-blending work of science fiction and fantasy that explores themes of identity, immortality, and exile.
- 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: Metus Target entity description: Metus is the Roman personification and god of fear and dread, corresponding to the Greek deity Phobos.
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A.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois refers to a person from the city of Auxerre in France, and by extension can also denote things associated with that city.
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B.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois is a French red wine grape variety more commonly known as Malbec, widely used in robust, deeply colored wines.
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C.
Iberus
Iberus is the ancient Latin name for the Ebro River, one of the major rivers of the Iberian Peninsula in present-day Spain.
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D.
Gelonus
Gelonus was an ancient fortified city traditionally identified as a major cultural and commercial center of the Scythians in the region north of the Black Sea.
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E.
Grimus
Grimus is Salman Rushdie’s debut novel, a genre-blending work of science fiction and fantasy that explores themes of identity, immortality, and exile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman deity
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mythological figure ⓘ personification ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
emotional fear
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panic ⓘ terror ⓘ |
| category |
Roman gods
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fear deities ⓘ personifications in Roman mythology ⓘ |
| correspondsTo | Phobos ⓘ |
| culture | Roman mythology ⓘ |
| domain |
dread
ⓘ
fear ⓘ |
| equivalentInGreekMythology | Phobos ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCounterpart | Phobos ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Greco-Roman mythology ⓘ |
| nameMeaning |
dread
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fear ⓘ |
| opposedConcept | courage ⓘ |
| role |
embodiment of dread
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embodiment of fear ⓘ |
| typeOfDeity | personification of fear ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
Ancient Rome
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linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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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: Metus Description of subject: Metus is the Roman personification and god of fear and dread, corresponding to the Greek deity Phobos.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.