Kourotrophos
E110383
Kourotrophos is an epithet meaning “nurturer of children,” highlighting a deity’s role as protector and caretaker of the young.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kourotrophos canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T924729 — 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: Kourotrophos Context triple: [Leto, epithet, Kourotrophos]
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A.
Phasaelis
Phasaelis was a Nabatean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV, best known as the first wife of Herod Antipas whose repudiation of her led to political and military conflict.
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B.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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C.
Nausithous
Nausithous is a lesser-known figure in Greek mythology, traditionally named as one of the sons of the nymph Calypso.
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D.
Argeiphontes
Argeiphontes is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes, highlighting his role as the slayer of the many-eyed giant Argus Panoptes.
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E.
Phaenarete
Phaenarete was an Athenian midwife best known as the mother of the philosopher Socrates.
- 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: Kourotrophos Target entity description: Kourotrophos is an epithet meaning “nurturer of children,” highlighting a deity’s role as protector and caretaker of the young.
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A.
Phasaelis
Phasaelis was a Nabatean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV, best known as the first wife of Herod Antipas whose repudiation of her led to political and military conflict.
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B.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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C.
Nausithous
Nausithous is a lesser-known figure in Greek mythology, traditionally named as one of the sons of the nymph Calypso.
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D.
Argeiphontes
Argeiphontes is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes, highlighting his role as the slayer of the many-eyed giant Argus Panoptes.
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E.
Phaenarete
Phaenarete was an Athenian midwife best known as the mother of the philosopher Socrates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cult title
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epithet ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
Aphrodite
ⓘ
Artemis ⓘ Eileithyia ⓘ Hera ⓘ various local mother goddesses ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
fertility
ⓘ
motherhood ⓘ nurturing of the young ⓘ protection of the young ⓘ |
| category | epithets of Greek deities ⓘ |
| domain |
childbirth
ⓘ
early childhood ⓘ family life ⓘ |
| etymology | from Greek kouros (boy, child) and trepho (to nourish, rear) ⓘ |
| function |
to emphasize a deity’s role as caretaker of children
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to emphasize a deity’s role as protector of children ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| meaning | nurturer of children ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| usedFor |
deities associated with child rearing
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deities associated with the care of children ⓘ deities associated with the protection of children ⓘ |
| worshipContext |
household cults
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local civic cults ⓘ |
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: Kourotrophos Description of subject: Kourotrophos is an epithet meaning “nurturer of children,” highlighting a deity’s role as protector and caretaker of the young.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.