Thersander (son of Sisyphus)
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Thersander, son of Sisyphus, is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as one of the several sons of the crafty king of Corinth.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thersander (son of Sisyphus) canonical | 4 |
| Thersander (son of Minyas) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6882990 — 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: Thersander (son of Sisyphus) Context triple: [Children of Sisyphus, notableSiblingGroupOf, Thersander (son of Sisyphus)]
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A.
Melicertes
Melicertes is a figure in Greek mythology who, after his death and transformation at sea, became the sea god Palaemon associated with sailors and harbors.
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B.
Sisyphus
Sisyphus is a figure from Greek mythology, a cunning king eternally condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down each time.
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C.
Steropes
Steropes is a one-eyed giant from Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes known for forging Zeus’s thunderbolts.
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D.
Temenus of Argos
Temenus of Argos is a legendary Heraclid king of Argos in Greek mythology, regarded as an ancestor of the Argead dynasty of Macedon.
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E.
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.
- 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: Thersander (son of Sisyphus) Target entity description: Thersander, son of Sisyphus, is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as one of the several sons of the crafty king of Corinth.
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A.
Melicertes
Melicertes is a figure in Greek mythology who, after his death and transformation at sea, became the sea god Palaemon associated with sailors and harbors.
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B.
Sisyphus
Sisyphus is a figure from Greek mythology, a cunning king eternally condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down each time.
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C.
Steropes
Steropes is a one-eyed giant from Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes known for forging Zeus’s thunderbolts.
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D.
Temenus of Argos
Temenus of Argos is a legendary Heraclid king of Argos in Greek mythology, regarded as an ancestor of the Argead dynasty of Macedon.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | figure in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Corinth ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Corinthian ⓘ |
| father | Sisyphus ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandfather |
Aeolus (son of Hellen)
ⓘ
linked to:
Aeolus (grandfather of Sisyphus)
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| grandmother | Enarete ⓘ |
| knownFor | being one of the sons of Sisyphus, king of Corinth ⓘ |
| literarySource |
later mythographic traditions
ⓘ
scholia on Pindar ⓘ |
| mother |
Merope (Pleiad)
ⓘ
linked to:
Merope
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| mythologicalCulture | Ancient Greek mythology ⓘ |
| mythologicalEra | age of heroes ⓘ |
| notability | minor character in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Bellerophon ⓘ |
| sibling |
Almus
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Glaucus (son of Sisyphus) ⓘ Ornytion ⓘ Porphyrion (son of Sisyphus) ⓘ |
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: Thersander (son of Sisyphus) Description of subject: Thersander, son of Sisyphus, is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as one of the several sons of the crafty king of Corinth.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.