Deianira
E116798
Deianira is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the second wife of the hero Heracles and for inadvertently causing his death through the poisoned tunic.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deianira canonical | 9 |
| Deianeira | 4 |
| Deianira (indirectly, by attempted abduction) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T934136 — 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: Deianira Context triple: [Heracles, spouse, Deianira]
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A.
Alcmene
Alcmene is a mortal woman in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of the hero Heracles.
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B.
Anticlea
Anticlea is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the hero Odysseus and the wife of Laertes.
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C.
Niobe
Niobe is a figure in Greek mythology whose tragic story centers on her pride in her many children and the devastating divine retribution that followed.
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D.
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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E.
Omphale
Omphale is a queen of Lydia in Greek mythology best known for owning and temporarily enslaving the hero Heracles, during which their traditional gender roles were playfully reversed.
- 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: Deianira Target entity description: Deianira is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the second wife of the hero Heracles and for inadvertently causing his death through the poisoned tunic.
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A.
Alcmene
Alcmene is a mortal woman in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of the hero Heracles.
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B.
Anticlea
Anticlea is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the hero Odysseus and the wife of Laertes.
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C.
Niobe
Niobe is a figure in Greek mythology whose tragic story centers on her pride in her many children and the devastating divine retribution that followed.
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D.
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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E.
Omphale
Omphale is a queen of Lydia in Greek mythology best known for owning and temporarily enslaving the hero Heracles, during which their traditional gender roles were playfully reversed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mythological character ⓘ |
| actuallyPropertyOfObject | blood of Nessus as poison ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Deianira
ⓘ
surface form:
Deianeira
|
| appearsIn |
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
ⓘ
Diodorus Siculus ⓘ
surface form:
Diodorus Siculus' Library of History
Heroides ⓘ
surface form:
Ovid's "Heroides"
Ovid’s Metamorphoses ⓘ
surface form:
Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
|
| associatedWith |
Aetolia
ⓘ
Kalydon ⓘ
surface form:
Calydon
Centaurs ⓘ
surface form:
centaur Nessus
|
| associatedWork |
The Women of Trachis
ⓘ
surface form:
Sophocles' tragedy "Women of Trachis"
|
| attemptedToEnsure | continued love of Heracles ⓘ |
| believedPropertyOfObject | blood of Nessus as love charm ⓘ |
| causeOf | burning agony of Heracles ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide (in many versions) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeathOf | Heracles ⓘ |
| culture |
Greek Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Greece
|
| etymology | "destroyer of man" or "man-destroyer" ⓘ |
| father | Oeneus ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Ctesippus
ⓘ
Glenus ⓘ Hyllus ⓘ Macaria ⓘ Onites ⓘ Therimachus ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Nessus ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the second wife of Heracles
ⓘ
causing the death of Heracles ⓘ sending Heracles a poisoned tunic ⓘ |
| laterRegretted | sending the poisoned tunic ⓘ |
| marriageContestWith | river god Achelous ⓘ |
| marriageWonBy | Heracles ⓘ |
| methodOfSuicide | hanging (in many versions) ⓘ |
| mother | Althaea ⓘ |
| motiveForSendingTunic | fear of losing Heracles' affection ⓘ |
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| objectReceived | blood of Nessus ⓘ |
| pursuedBy |
river god Achelous
ⓘ
surface form:
Achelous
|
| receivedObjectFrom | Nessus ⓘ |
| rescuedBy | Heracles ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character in "Women of Trachis" ⓘ |
| sibling | Meleager ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
Heracles
ⓘ
Heracles ⓘ
surface form:
Heracles, son of Zeus and Alcmene
Heracles ⓘ
surface form:
Herakles
|
| usedObjectOn | tunic of Heracles ⓘ |
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: Deianira Description of subject: Deianira is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the second wife of the hero Heracles and for inadvertently causing his death through the poisoned tunic.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Deianeira
subject surface form:
Achelous
this entity surface form:
Deianeira
this entity surface form:
Deianeira
this entity surface form:
Deianira (indirectly, by attempted abduction)