Cupid
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Cupid is the Roman god of love and desire, traditionally depicted as a winged boy whose arrows cause people to fall in love.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cupid canonical | 32 |
| Eros | 7 |
| Cupid (Roman god of love) | 1 |
| Cupid at the fountain | 1 |
| Cupid with bow and arrow | 1 |
| Cupid with finger to lips | 1 |
| Eros (in some traditions) | 1 |
| Eros (through his arrow to Apollo) | 1 |
| personified Cupid | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T548776 — 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: Cupid Context triple: [Mars Being Disarmed by Venus, depicts, Cupid]
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A.
Cupid
Cupid is one of Santa Claus’s traditional flying reindeer, typically depicted pulling his sleigh on Christmas Eve.
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B.
Gabriel
Gabriel is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, widely used in many cultures and languages.
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C.
Gautreau
Gautreau is the surname of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the New Orleans–born socialite best known as the subject of John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "Portrait of Madame X."
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D.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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E.
Hermes
Hermes is the fleet-footed Greek god of trade, travel, and communication, who serves as messenger of the Olympian gods and guide of souls to the underworld.
- 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: Cupid Target entity description: Cupid is the Roman god of love and desire, traditionally depicted as a winged boy whose arrows cause people to fall in love.
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A.
Cupid
Cupid is one of Santa Claus’s traditional flying reindeer, typically depicted pulling his sleigh on Christmas Eve.
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B.
Gabriel
Gabriel is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, widely used in many cultures and languages.
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C.
Gautreau
Gautreau is the surname of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the New Orleans–born socialite best known as the subject of John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "Portrait of Madame X."
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D.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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E.
Hermes
Hermes is the fleet-footed Greek god of trade, travel, and communication, who serves as messenger of the Olympian gods and guide of souls to the underworld.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman god
ⓘ
deity of love ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| artMotif | putto ⓘ |
| artTradition |
Baroque art
ⓘ
Renaissance art ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Psyche
ⓘ
Venus ⓘ |
| category |
Love and lust gods
ⓘ
Mythological archers ⓘ Roman gods ⓘ |
| childOf | Olympian gods ⓘ |
| culture | Roman mythology ⓘ |
| domain |
desire
ⓘ
love ⓘ |
| effectOfGoldenArrows | arouse love ⓘ |
| effectOfLeadArrows | arouse aversion ⓘ |
| equivalentTo |
Amor
ⓘ
Eros ⓘ
linked to:
Cupid
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| greekCounterpart |
Eros
ⓘ
linked to:
Eros (primordial)
|
| holidayAssociation | Valentine's Day ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
arrows
ⓘ
bow ⓘ quiver ⓘ wings ⓘ |
| influenced |
Western art
ⓘ
Western literature ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | desire ⓘ |
| mythCycle |
Cupid and Psyche
ⓘ
linked to:
Amore e Psiche
|
| oftenDepictedWith |
blindfold
ⓘ
torch ⓘ |
| parent |
Mars
ⓘ
Venus ⓘ |
| power |
to inflame desire
ⓘ
to make people fall in love ⓘ |
| spouse | Psyche ⓘ |
| symbolicTheme |
love as burning flame
ⓘ
love is blind ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
attraction
ⓘ
erotic desire ⓘ romantic love ⓘ |
| typicalDepiction |
nude child
ⓘ
winged boy ⓘ |
| weaponType |
golden arrows
ⓘ
lead arrows ⓘ |
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: Cupid Description of subject: Cupid is the Roman god of love and desire, traditionally depicted as a winged boy whose arrows cause people to fall in love.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cupid
linked to: Cupid
linked to: Cupid
linked to: Cupid
linked to: Cupid
subject linked to:
Sacred and Profane Love by Titian
subject linked to:
Primavera by Sandro Botticelli
linked to: Cupid
linked to: Cupid
subject linked to:
Cupid's Span sculpture
linked to: Cupid
linked to: Cupid
subject linked to:
Bernini’s sculpture Apollo and Daphne