Hekademos
E190142
Hekademos (or Hecademus) was an Athenian hero or local figure whose grove outside Athens became the site of Plato’s Academy, giving the school its name.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hekademos canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1685505 — 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: Hekademos Context triple: [Academy of Athens (ancient), namedAfter, Hekademos]
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A.
Minos
Minos is a legendary king of Crete in Greek mythology, famed for commissioning the Labyrinth and serving as a judge of the dead in the underworld.
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B.
Linos
Linos is an alternative form of the name Linus, often associated with figures from ancient Greek mythology and early Christian tradition.
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C.
Agrius
Agrius is a figure from Greek mythology known as one of the sons of the sorceress Circe.
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D.
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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E.
Nausithous
Nausithous is a lesser-known figure in Greek mythology, traditionally named as one of the sons of the nymph Calypso.
- 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: Hekademos Target entity description: Hekademos (or Hecademus) was an Athenian hero or local figure whose grove outside Athens became the site of Plato’s Academy, giving the school its name.
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A.
Minos
Minos is a legendary king of Crete in Greek mythology, famed for commissioning the Labyrinth and serving as a judge of the dead in the underworld.
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B.
Linos
Linos is an alternative form of the name Linus, often associated with figures from ancient Greek mythology and early Christian tradition.
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C.
Agrius
Agrius is a figure from Greek mythology known as one of the sons of the sorceress Circe.
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D.
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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E.
Nausithous
Nausithous is a lesser-known figure in Greek mythology, traditionally named as one of the sons of the nymph Calypso.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Athenian hero
ⓘ
hero ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Plato
ⓘ
Academy of Athens ⓘ
surface form:
Platonic Academy
|
| associatedWithPlace |
Academy of Athens
ⓘ
surface form:
Academy of Plato
Academy of Athens ⓘ
surface form:
Akadēmeia
grove of Hekademos ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Classical Athens
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Athens
|
| culture | Ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| describedAs | local Athenian hero ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasLegacy | Plato’s school named after his grove ⓘ |
| hasVariantName |
Hecademus
ⓘ
Hekademos of Athens ⓘ |
| influenced | name of Plato’s Academy ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | later classical literary sources about the Academy ⓘ |
| notableFor | grove that became site of Plato’s Academy ⓘ |
| religiousContext | hero cult in Attica ⓘ |
| residence | Athens ⓘ |
| roleInMythology | eponymous hero of the Academy’s grove ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mythical era of Athens ⓘ |
| toponymDerivedFrom |
Academy
ⓘ
Academy of Athens ⓘ
surface form:
Akadēmeia
|
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: Hekademos Description of subject: Hekademos (or Hecademus) was an Athenian hero or local figure whose grove outside Athens became the site of Plato’s Academy, giving the school its name.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Academy of Athens (ancient)