Minos
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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.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Minos canonical | 35 |
| King Minos | 18 |
| King Minos of Crete | 6 |
| House of Minos | 2 |
| King of Crete | 1 |
| king of Crete | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156643 — 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: Minos Context triple: [Zeus, child, Minos]
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A.
Cronos
Cronos is a 1993 Mexican horror-fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro, noted for its inventive vampire mythology and atmospheric visual style.
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B.
Cronus
Cronus is a Titan in Greek mythology best known for overthrowing his father Uranus and later being overthrown by his own son Zeus.
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C.
Menoetius
Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
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D.
Zeus
Zeus is the king of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, ruling over the sky and thunder and presiding as the chief deity of the pantheon.
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E.
Poseidon
Poseidon is the ancient Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses, one of the twelve Olympian deities.
- 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: Minos Target entity description: 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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A.
Cronos
Cronos is a 1993 Mexican horror-fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro, noted for its inventive vampire mythology and atmospheric visual style.
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B.
Cronus
Cronus is a Titan in Greek mythology best known for overthrowing his father Uranus and later being overthrown by his own son Zeus.
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C.
Menoetius
Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
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D.
Zeus
Zeus is the king of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, ruling over the sky and thunder and presiding as the chief deity of the pantheon.
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E.
Poseidon
Poseidon is the ancient Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses, one of the twelve Olympian deities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Minos Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King Minos
this entity surface form:
King Minos of Crete
this entity surface form:
King of Crete
this entity surface form:
King Minos