Atlantis
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Atlantis is a legendary, highly advanced island civilization from ancient Greek mythology, said to have sunk into the sea as a result of divine punishment.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Atlantis canonical | 25 |
| Atlanteans | 2 |
| Atlantis, the Lost Continent | 1 |
| Plato’s Atlantis | 1 |
| city of Atlantis | 1 |
| lost city of Atlantis | 1 |
| lost underwater city of Atlantis | 1 |
| mythical island of Atlantis | 1 |
| mythological lost city of Atlantis | 1 |
| throne of Atlantis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1000676 — 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.
Target entity: Atlantis Context triple: [Poseidon, associatedPlace, Atlantis]
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A.
Atlantis Appendix
Atlantis Appendix is a renowned 17th-century cartographic work by Dutch mapmaker Willem Blaeu, notable for its detailed maps and contributions to early modern atlas publishing.
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B.
The Deep
The Deep is a striking futuristic aquarium and marine research center in Kingston upon Hull, England, known for its dramatic architecture and extensive collection of marine life.
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C.
The Deep
The Deep is a 1976 adventure novel by Peter Benchley that follows a young couple who discover dangerous secrets and sunken treasure while diving near Bermuda.
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D.
Island Beneath the Sea
Island Beneath the Sea is a historical novel by Isabel Allende that follows the life of an enslaved woman in late 18th-century Saint-Domingue (Haiti) amid revolution and upheaval.
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E.
Pillars of Hercules
The Pillars of Hercules is the ancient name for the two promontories flanking the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea at the Strait of Gibraltar, long regarded as the symbolic boundary of the known world in classical antiquity.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Atlantis Target entity description: Atlantis is a legendary, highly advanced island civilization from ancient Greek mythology, said to have sunk into the sea as a result of divine punishment.
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A.
Atlantis Appendix
Atlantis Appendix is a renowned 17th-century cartographic work by Dutch mapmaker Willem Blaeu, notable for its detailed maps and contributions to early modern atlas publishing.
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B.
The Deep
The Deep is a striking futuristic aquarium and marine research center in Kingston upon Hull, England, known for its dramatic architecture and extensive collection of marine life.
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C.
The Deep
The Deep is a 1976 adventure novel by Peter Benchley that follows a young couple who discover dangerous secrets and sunken treasure while diving near Bermuda.
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D.
Island Beneath the Sea
Island Beneath the Sea is a historical novel by Isabel Allende that follows the life of an enslaved woman in late 18th-century Saint-Domingue (Haiti) amid revolution and upheaval.
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E.
Pillars of Hercules
The Pillars of Hercules is the ancient name for the two promontories flanking the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea at the Strait of Gibraltar, long regarded as the symbolic boundary of the known world in classical antiquity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legendary civilization
ⓘ
mythical island ⓘ mythological place ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Critias
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Timaeus ⓘ |
| associatedDeity | Poseidon ⓘ |
| causeOfDestruction | divine punishment ⓘ |
| characterizedAs | highly advanced civilization ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Athens
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surface form:
ancient Athens
|
| culturalOrigin | ancient Greek mythology ⓘ |
| describedBy | Plato ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from Atlas ⓘ |
| fate | sank into the sea ⓘ |
| firstSourceLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| genre | philosophical myth ⓘ |
| governedBy | kings ⓘ |
| hasDebate | location hypotheses in real geography ⓘ |
| influenced |
esoteric and occult traditions
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fantasy literature ⓘ modern lost continent theories ⓘ pseudoarchaeology ⓘ science fiction literature ⓘ |
| locatedInMyth | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| moralTheme |
corruption
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hubris ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
example of ideal state becoming corrupt
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warning against imperial overreach ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
advanced engineering
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concentric rings of land and water ⓘ great wealth ⓘ powerful navy ⓘ |
| popularCulture |
frequent subject of films
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frequent subject of novels ⓘ frequent subject of television series ⓘ frequent subject of video games ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
dystopia
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lost city ⓘ sunken continent ⓘ utopia ⓘ |
| religion | worship of Poseidon ⓘ |
| status | considered fictional by mainstream scholarship ⓘ |
| theme |
conflict between virtue and decadence
ⓘ
rise and fall of civilizations ⓘ |
| timeOfStory | set in the distant past ⓘ |
| usedAs |
allegory of moral decline
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political allegory ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Atlantis Description of subject: Atlantis is a legendary, highly advanced island civilization from ancient Greek mythology, said to have sunk into the sea as a result of divine punishment.
Referenced by (35)
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