Androgeus
E141380
Androgeus is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of King Minos of Crete whose death in Athens helped spark the conflict that led to the legend of the Minotaur and the Athenian tributes.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1092314 — 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: Androgeus Context triple: [Minos, offspring, Androgeus]
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A.
Amphictyon
Amphictyon is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally regarded as an early king of Athens and associated with the legendary Amphictyonic League.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Astakos
Astakos is a coastal town in western Greece known as a regional port and ferry hub on the Ionian Sea.
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D.
Laodamas
Laodamas is a prince in Greek mythology, best known as the favored son of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer's Odyssey.
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E.
Aristaeus
Aristaeus is a minor Greek god associated with agriculture, beekeeping, and pastoral pursuits, often revered as a culture hero who taught humans various rural arts.
- 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: Androgeus Target entity description: Androgeus is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of King Minos of Crete whose death in Athens helped spark the conflict that led to the legend of the Minotaur and the Athenian tributes.
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A.
Amphictyon
Amphictyon is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally regarded as an early king of Athens and associated with the legendary Amphictyonic League.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Astakos
Astakos is a coastal town in western Greece known as a regional port and ferry hub on the Ionian Sea.
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D.
Laodamas
Laodamas is a prince in Greek mythology, best known as the favored son of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer's Odyssey.
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E.
Aristaeus
Aristaeus is a minor Greek god associated with agriculture, beekeeping, and pastoral pursuits, often revered as a culture hero who taught humans various rural arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
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mythological prince ⓘ |
| aftermath |
Athens forced to send youths as tribute to Crete
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tribute youths were sent to be devoured by the Minotaur ⓘ |
| alternateSpelling |
Androgeus
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Androgeos
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| associatedWith |
Aegeus
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Athens ⓘ Crete ⓘ Minos ⓘ
surface form:
King Minos of Crete
Minotaur ⓘ Panathenaea ⓘ
surface form:
Panathenaic Games
Theseus ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
killed by jealous Athenians
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killed by the Marathonian bull ⓘ killed in ambush ⓘ |
| childOf |
Minos
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Pasiphaë ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Crete ⓘ |
| cultOrWorship |
hero cult in Attica
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hero shrine in Athens ⓘ |
| greekName | Ἀνδρόγεως ⓘ |
| hasVariantLegend |
death caused by accident while hunting the Marathonian bull
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death caused by plot of competitors in games ⓘ death ordered by King Aegeus of Athens ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Perseid dynasty
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surface form:
Cretan royal family
|
| mentionedIn |
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
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surface form:
Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)
Diodorus Siculus ⓘ
surface form:
Diodorus Siculus’ Library of History
Pausanias’ Description of Greece ⓘ |
| mythologicalContext |
Athenian-Cretan conflict myths
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cycle of myths about Minos and the Minotaur ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
excelled in athletic contests
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won all events at the Panathenaic Games in Athens ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Athens
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Attica ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Cretan prince ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Acacallis
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Androgeneia ⓘ Ariadne ⓘ Catreus ⓘ Deucalion (son of Minos) ⓘ Euryale (daughter of Minos) ⓘ Glaucus ⓘ Phaedra ⓘ Phaedra ⓘ
surface form:
Phædra
Xenodice ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
death connected to origin of the Minotaur tribute legend
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death in Athens provoked Minos to wage war on Athens ⓘ death led to Athenians being compelled to send tributes to Crete ⓘ |
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: Androgeus Description of subject: Androgeus is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of King Minos of Crete whose death in Athens helped spark the conflict that led to the legend of the Minotaur and the Athenian tributes.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Androgeos