Calypso
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Calypso is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for detaining the hero Odysseus on her island of Ogygia in Homer's Odyssey.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Calypso canonical | 26 |
| Calypso (mythological nymph) | 3 |
| Calypso (mythology) | 2 |
| Calypso (Greek mythology) | 1 |
| Calypso (Oceanid) | 1 |
| Calypso (in some traditions) | 1 |
| Calypso (nymph in Greek mythology) | 1 |
| Calypso (through Atlas) | 1 |
| Molly Bloom as Calypso | 1 |
| Odysseus and Calypso | 1 |
| nymph Calypso | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T34880 — 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: Calypso Context triple: [Atlas, children, Calypso]
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A.
Clymene
Clymene is a figure in Greek mythology, often depicted as an Oceanid or Titaness associated with light or fame and known as the wife or consort of the Titan Iapetus.
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B.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
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C.
Dædalus
Dædalus is a scholarly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that features interdisciplinary essays on culture, science, public affairs, and the arts.
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D.
Tituba
Tituba was an enslaved woman of Indigenous and African descent whose accusations and testimony helped ignite the Salem witch trials in 1692.
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E.
Yma Sumac
Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
- 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: Calypso Target entity description: Calypso is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for detaining the hero Odysseus on her island of Ogygia in Homer's Odyssey.
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A.
Clymene
Clymene is a figure in Greek mythology, often depicted as an Oceanid or Titaness associated with light or fame and known as the wife or consort of the Titan Iapetus.
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B.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
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C.
Dædalus
Dædalus is a scholarly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that features interdisciplinary essays on culture, science, public affairs, and the arts.
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D.
Tituba
Tituba was an enslaved woman of Indigenous and African descent whose accusations and testimony helped ignite the Salem witch trials in 1692.
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E.
Yma Sumac
Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mythologicalFigure
ⓘ
nymph ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Homer's Odyssey ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ogygia
ⓘ
islands ⓘ sea ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
delay of nostos (homecoming)
ⓘ
temptation ⓘ |
| category |
Characters in the Odyssey
ⓘ
Nymphs in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| children |
Nausinous
ⓘ
Nausithous ⓘ |
| culture | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| detains | Odysseus ⓘ |
| durationOfDetentionOfOdysseus | seven years ⓘ |
| emotion | grief at Odysseus's departure ⓘ |
| etymology | from Greek verb "kalyptō" meaning "to conceal" ⓘ |
| father | Atlas ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChildrenWith | Odysseus ⓘ |
| influenced | later literary depictions of seductive island women ⓘ |
| island | Ogygia ⓘ |
| knownFor | detaining Odysseus ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literarySource |
Odyssey Book 12 (retelling by Odysseus)
ⓘ
linked to:
Homer's Odyssey
Odyssey Book 5 ⓘ
linked to:
Homer's Odyssey
Odyssey Book 7 (indirect references) ⓘ
linked to:
Homer's Odyssey
|
| lover | Odysseus ⓘ |
| mythologicalEra |
Heroic Age
ⓘ
linked to:
Mycenaean civilization
|
| nameMeaning | "she who conceals" ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | tests Odysseus's loyalty to Penelope ⓘ |
| obeys | Zeus ⓘ |
| offers |
eternal youth to Odysseus
ⓘ
immortality to Odysseus ⓘ |
| orderedBy | Zeus to release Odysseus ⓘ |
| parent | Atlas ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
beautiful
ⓘ
hospitable ⓘ possessive ⓘ powerful ⓘ |
| power |
ability to enchant
ⓘ
ability to offer immortality ⓘ |
| residesIn | Ogygia ⓘ |
| roleInOdyssey | obstacle to Odysseus's return ⓘ |
| sibling |
Hyades
ⓘ
Pleiades ⓘ
linked to:
Alcyone
|
| visitedBy | Hermes ⓘ |
| worship | no major cult attested ⓘ |
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: Calypso Description of subject: Calypso is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for detaining the hero Odysseus on her island of Ogygia in Homer's Odyssey.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Atlas from Greek mythology
linked to: Calypso
subject linked to:
research vessel Calypso
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subject linked to:
Saturn XIV
linked to: Calypso
subject linked to:
ship Calypso
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subject linked to:
Naomi Harris