Polybus
E110996
Polybus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the father of Eurymachus, one of the leading suitors of Penelope in Homer's Odyssey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polybus canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T942996 — 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: Polybus Context triple: [Eurymachus, father, Polybus]
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A.
Polybus
Polybus is the king of Corinth in Greek mythology who raises Oedipus as his own son.
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B.
Praxeas
Praxeas was an early Christian theologian known for promoting a modalistic view of the Trinity that was later deemed heretical by mainstream church authorities.
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C.
Bertramus
Bertramus is a Latinized variant of the given name Bertram, historically used in medieval and ecclesiastical contexts.
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D.
Cleon
Cleon was an influential Athenian statesman and general during the Peloponnesian War, known for his aggressive policies and prominent role in Athenian politics.
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E.
Siris
Siris is a philosophical work by George Berkeley that explores metaphysics, theology, and the medicinal virtues of tar-water through a chain of reflective questions and arguments.
- 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: Polybus Target entity description: Polybus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the father of Eurymachus, one of the leading suitors of Penelope in Homer's Odyssey.
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A.
Polybus
Polybus is the king of Corinth in Greek mythology who raises Oedipus as his own son.
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B.
Praxeas
Praxeas was an early Christian theologian known for promoting a modalistic view of the Trinity that was later deemed heretical by mainstream church authorities.
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C.
Bertramus
Bertramus is a Latinized variant of the given name Bertram, historically used in medieval and ecclesiastical contexts.
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D.
Cleon
Cleon was an influential Athenian statesman and general during the Peloponnesian War, known for his aggressive policies and prominent role in Athenian politics.
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E.
Siris
Siris is a philosophical work by George Berkeley that explores metaphysics, theology, and the medicinal virtues of tar-water through a chain of reflective questions and arguments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mythological character ⓘ |
| appearsInTradition | Epic poetry ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Eurymachus
ⓘ
Odysseus ⓘ Penelope (nymph) ⓘ
surface form:
Penelope
|
| canon | Greek epic tradition ⓘ |
| child | Eurymachus ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek mythology ⓘ |
| deathStatus | unknown in surviving sources ⓘ |
| father | Polybus self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | mythological ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| geographicalContext | Ithaca (through his son Eurymachus's presence there) ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySources | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literarySource |
Homer's Odyssey
ⓘ
surface form:
Odyssey by Homer
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| mentionedIn | Homer's Odyssey ⓘ |
| mythologicalEra | Age of Odysseus ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Eurymachus, a leading suitor of Penelope ⓘ |
| roleInMythology | father of one of Penelope's suitors ⓘ |
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: Polybus Description of subject: Polybus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the father of Eurymachus, one of the leading suitors of Penelope in Homer's Odyssey.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.