Picus
E141247
Picus is a figure from Roman mythology, a handsome king and hunter who was transformed into a woodpecker by the sorceress Circe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Picus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1203699 — 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: Picus Context triple: [Circe, lover, Picus]
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A.
Sparviero
Sparviero is the Italian nickname for the Savoia-Marchetti SM.79, a World War II-era three-engined medium bomber and torpedo bomber used prominently by the Italian Air Force.
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B.
Pavo
Pavo is a genus of large, colorful birds in the pheasant family that includes the well-known peafowls.
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C.
Clinomachus
Clinomachus was an ancient Greek philosopher associated with the Megarian school, known for his work on logic and dialectics.
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D.
Aquila adalberti
Aquila adalberti, commonly known as the Spanish imperial eagle, is a large, endangered raptor endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and recognized for its dark plumage and pale shoulder patches.
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E.
Acanthisitti
Acanthisitti is a small, ancient suborder of New Zealand wrens considered among the most basal and evolutionarily distinct lineages of passerine birds.
- 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: Picus Target entity description: Picus is a figure from Roman mythology, a handsome king and hunter who was transformed into a woodpecker by the sorceress Circe.
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A.
Sparviero
Sparviero is the Italian nickname for the Savoia-Marchetti SM.79, a World War II-era three-engined medium bomber and torpedo bomber used prominently by the Italian Air Force.
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B.
Pavo
Pavo is a genus of large, colorful birds in the pheasant family that includes the well-known peafowls.
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C.
Clinomachus
Clinomachus was an ancient Greek philosopher associated with the Megarian school, known for his work on logic and dialectics.
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D.
Aquila adalberti
Aquila adalberti, commonly known as the Spanish imperial eagle, is a large, endangered raptor endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and recognized for its dark plumage and pale shoulder patches.
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E.
Acanthisitti
Acanthisitti is a small, ancient suborder of New Zealand wrens considered among the most basal and evolutionarily distinct lineages of passerine birds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Roman mythology
ⓘ
hunter in mythology ⓘ mythological king ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
ⓘ
surface form:
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ |
| associatedAnimal | woodpecker ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Latium
ⓘ
Mars ⓘ augury ⓘ prophecy ⓘ |
| category |
Characters in the Aeneid
ⓘ
Characters in the Metamorphoses ⓘ Kings in Roman mythology ⓘ Metamorphoses into animals in mythology ⓘ |
| culture | Roman mythology ⓘ |
| father |
Cronus
ⓘ
Saturn ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
extraordinary beauty
ⓘ
skill in hunting ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | woodpecker in Latin ⓘ |
| mythologicalRole | ancestor of Latin kings ⓘ |
| reasonForTransformation | rejection of Circe's advances ⓘ |
| relatedMyth |
Circe
ⓘ
surface form:
Circe in Latium
story of Canens ⓘ |
| sometimesDescribedAs | son of Mars ⓘ |
| spouse | Canens ⓘ |
| symbol | woodpecker ⓘ |
| title |
King Latinus
ⓘ
surface form:
King of Latium
|
| transformationType | metamorphosis ⓘ |
| transformedBy | Circe ⓘ |
| transformedInto | woodpecker ⓘ |
| victimOf | Circe's magic ⓘ |
| worshippedAs | agricultural deity ⓘ |
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: Picus Description of subject: Picus is a figure from Roman mythology, a handsome king and hunter who was transformed into a woodpecker by the sorceress Circe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.