Oneiroi

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Oneiroi are the personified spirits of dreams in Greek mythology, often depicted as shadowy figures who visit sleepers with visions of the night.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Oneiroi canonical 5
the Oneiroi 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek mythological figures
chthonic deities
group of mythological beings
personifications of dreams
associatedPlace Gates of Horn and Ivory
associatedWith sleep
visions of the night
category Greek underworld spirits
children of Nyx
culture Ancient Greek mythology
describedAs personified spirits of dreams
shadowy figures
domain dreams
enter houses of sleepers
etymology derived from Greek "oneiros" meaning "dream"
function bring dreams to mortals
convey messages from the gods through dreams
influenceOn later literary depictions of dreams
languageOfName Ancient Greek
ledBy Morpheus
member Morpheus
Phantasos
Phobetor
mentionedIn Hesiod's Theogony
Homer's Iliad
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
surface form: Ovid's Metamorphoses
number many
opposedConcept waking reality
parent Nyx
resideIn Erebus
underworld
sibling Apate
Eris
Geras
Hesperides
Hypnos
Keres
Moirae
surface form: Moirai

Momus
Moros
Nemesis
Philotes
Thanatos
symbolism boundary between divine messages and illusions
unreliability of dreams
travelBy gates of dreams
typicalForm dark or shadowy forms
winged beings
worshipType minor cultic importance

How these facts were elicited

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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: Oneiroi
Description of subject: Oneiroi are the personified spirits of dreams in Greek mythology, often depicted as shadowy figures who visit sleepers with visions of the night.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nyx parentOf Oneiroi
Thanatos sibling Oneiroi
Keres sibling Oneiroi
Hypnos siblings Oneiroi
this entity surface form: the Oneiroi
Hypnos relatedConcept Oneiroi
Oizys sibling Oneiroi