Heroic Age
E105625
The Heroic Age is a legendary period in Greek mythology characterized by the exploits of great heroes such as Heracles, Perseus, and the warriors of the Trojan War.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heroic Age canonical | 3 |
| Greek ages of man | 1 |
| Heroic Age of Greece | 1 |
| Mythic age of Greece | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T896671 — 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: Heroic Age Context triple: [Telemachus, eraOfMyth, Heroic Age]
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A.
The Golden Age
The Golden Age is the original title of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ religious magazine that was later renamed Awake!.
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B.
Golden Age
The Golden Age is a mythological era of primordial peace, prosperity, and harmony, often associated with the early rule of the Titans before human decline through subsequent ages.
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C.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was an ancient era characterized by the widespread use of bronze tools and weapons, early urbanization, and the emergence of complex societies across regions including the Near East, where the Hebrews lived.
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D.
Iron Age
The Iron Age was a major prehistoric and early historic era marked by the widespread use of iron tools and weapons, urban growth, and complex societies across regions including the ancient Near East where the Hebrews lived.
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E.
Viking Age
The Viking Age was a period from the late 8th to the 11th century marked by Scandinavian seafaring expansion, raids, trade, and settlement across wide areas of Europe and beyond.
- 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: Heroic Age Target entity description: The Heroic Age is a legendary period in Greek mythology characterized by the exploits of great heroes such as Heracles, Perseus, and the warriors of the Trojan War.
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A.
The Golden Age
The Golden Age is the original title of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ religious magazine that was later renamed Awake!.
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B.
Golden Age
The Golden Age is a mythological era of primordial peace, prosperity, and harmony, often associated with the early rule of the Titans before human decline through subsequent ages.
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C.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was an ancient era characterized by the widespread use of bronze tools and weapons, early urbanization, and the emergence of complex societies across regions including the Near East, where the Hebrews lived.
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D.
Iron Age
The Iron Age was a major prehistoric and early historic era marked by the widespread use of iron tools and weapons, urban growth, and complex societies across regions including the ancient Near East where the Hebrews lived.
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E.
Viking Age
The Viking Age was a period from the late 8th to the 11th century marked by Scandinavian seafaring expansion, raids, trade, and settlement across wide areas of Europe and beyond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mythological era
ⓘ
period in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Achilles
ⓘ
Agamemnon ⓘ Ajax the Greater ⓘ
surface form:
Ajax the Great
Atalanta ⓘ Calydonian boar hunt ⓘ Diomedes ⓘ Hector ⓘ Heracles ⓘ Jason ⓘ Menelaus ⓘ Odysseus ⓘ Perseus ⓘ Seven Against Thebes ⓘ Theseus ⓘ Trojan War ⓘ expedition of the Argonauts ⓘ |
| characterizedBy | exploits of heroes ⓘ |
| describedBy | Hesiod ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Hesiod's Works and Days
ⓘ
surface form:
Works and Days
|
| distinguishedFrom | historical period of ancient Greece ⓘ |
| follows |
Bronze Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Age of Bronze
|
| hasReputationFor |
extraordinary valor
ⓘ
great suffering of heroes ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
divine parentage of heroes
ⓘ
heroic warfare ⓘ interaction between gods and mortals ⓘ quest narratives ⓘ |
| includesEvent |
Argonautic expedition
ⓘ
Calydonian Boar Hunt ⓘ
surface form:
Calydonian boar hunt
Theban wars ⓘ Trojan War ⓘ |
| influenced |
Greek tragedy
ⓘ
classical Greek literature ⓘ later epic traditions ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| partOf | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| populatedBy |
demigods
ⓘ
epic warriors ⓘ legendary kings ⓘ |
| precedes | Age of Iron ⓘ |
| region |
Greek Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Greece
|
| sourceFor |
Epic Cycle
ⓘ
Homer's Iliad ⓘ
surface form:
Iliad
Homer's Odyssey ⓘ
surface form:
Odyssey
|
| timePlacement | mythic past ⓘ |
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: Heroic Age Description of subject: The Heroic Age is a legendary period in Greek mythology characterized by the exploits of great heroes such as Heracles, Perseus, and the warriors of the Trojan War.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mythic age of Greece
this entity surface form:
Heroic Age of Greece
this entity surface form:
Greek ages of man