Aphrodite
E27745
Aphrodite is the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, desire, and fertility, central to many myths and widely venerated throughout the Greek world.
All labels observed (21)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156936 — 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: Aphrodite Context triple: [Ancient Greek religion, hasDeity, Aphrodite]
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A.
Hera
Hera is the queen of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, revered as the goddess of marriage, women, and family.
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B.
Artemis
Artemis is the Greek goddess of the hunt, wilderness, and childbirth, often depicted as a virgin huntress and protector of young women and animals.
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C.
Athena
Athena is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare, and crafts, and the patron deity of the city of Athens.
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D.
Hestia
Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth, home, and domestic harmony, revered as one of the twelve Olympian deities.
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E.
Themis
Themis is the Greek Titaness and goddess of divine law, order, and prophetic wisdom, often associated with oracular sites such as Delphi.
- 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: Aphrodite Target entity description: Aphrodite is the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, desire, and fertility, central to many myths and widely venerated throughout the Greek world.
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A.
Hera
Hera is the queen of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, revered as the goddess of marriage, women, and family.
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B.
Artemis
Artemis is the Greek goddess of the hunt, wilderness, and childbirth, often depicted as a virgin huntress and protector of young women and animals.
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C.
Athena
Athena is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare, and crafts, and the patron deity of the city of Athens.
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D.
Hestia
Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth, home, and domestic harmony, revered as one of the twelve Olympian deities.
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E.
Themis
Themis is the Greek Titaness and goddess of divine law, order, and prophetic wisdom, often associated with oracular sites such as Delphi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (84)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek goddess
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Olympian deity ⓘ mythological character ⓘ |
| alternativeOrigin | born from sea foam around the severed genitals of Uranus ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Cythera
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Knidos ⓘ Paphos ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
marriage
ⓘ
procreation ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| child |
Aeneas
ⓘ
Deimos ⓘ Cupid ⓘ
surface form:
Eros
Harmonia ⓘ Hermaphroditus ⓘ Phobos (Fear) ⓘ
surface form:
Phobos
Priapus ⓘ The Three Graces ⓘ
surface form:
The Graces
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| cultType |
mystery cults
ⓘ
state cults ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| depictedAs | beautiful young woman ⓘ |
| depictedWith |
Cupid
ⓘ
surface form:
Eros
doves ⓘ sea shell ⓘ |
| domain |
beauty
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desire ⓘ fertility ⓘ love ⓘ |
| epithet |
Aphrodite Anadyomene
ⓘ
Aphrodite self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Aphrodite Areia
Aphrodite self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Aphrodite Euploia
Aphrodite self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Aphrodite Genetyllis
Aphrodite self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Aphrodite Ourania
Aphrodite self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Aphrodite Pandemos
Aphrodite self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Aphrodite Urania
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| equivalentTo |
Aphrodite
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman goddess Venus
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| featuredInWork |
Hesiod's Theogony
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Homer's Iliad ⓘ Homer's Odyssey ⓘ Hymn to Aphrodite ⓘ
surface form:
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
|
| festival | Aphrodisia ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| greekName |
Aphrodite
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ἀφροδίτη
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| influenced |
Hellenistic art
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Renaissance art ⓘ Roman religion ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| lover |
Adonis
ⓘ
Anchises ⓘ Ares ⓘ |
| myth |
Aphrodite Anadyomene
ⓘ
surface form:
Birth of Aphrodite
judgment of Paris ⓘ
surface form:
Judgement of Paris
Love of Aphrodite and Adonis ⓘ Trojan War ⓘ |
| notableCultImage |
Aphrodite of Knidos
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Venus de Milo ⓘ |
| parent |
Dione
ⓘ
Zeus ⓘ |
| patronOf |
courtesans
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married women ⓘ sailors ⓘ |
| residence | Mount Olympus ⓘ |
| sacredAnimal | dove ⓘ |
| sacredPlant |
myrtle
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rose ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
fertility of humans
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fertility of nature ⓘ human relationships ⓘ physical attraction ⓘ |
| spouse | Hephaestus ⓘ |
| symbol |
dove
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girdle ⓘ mirror ⓘ myrtle ⓘ rose ⓘ scallop shell ⓘ sparrow ⓘ swan ⓘ |
| worshipCenter |
Athens
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Corinth ⓘ Cyprus ⓘ Cythera ⓘ Sparta ⓘ |
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: Aphrodite Description of subject: Aphrodite is the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, desire, and fertility, central to many myths and widely venerated throughout the Greek world.
Referenced by (147)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Venus (mythology)
subject surface form:
Galatea (statue)
this entity surface form:
Venus (goddess)
subject surface form:
cult of Aphrodite at Locri Epizephyrii
subject surface form:
cult of Aphrodite at Locri Epizephyrii
subject surface form:
cult of Aphrodite at Locri Epizephyrii
subject surface form:
Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Locri Epizephyrii
subject surface form:
Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Locri Epizephyrii
subject surface form:
Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Locri Epizephyrii
subject surface form:
Sanctuary of Aphrodite (Naxos, Sicily)
subject surface form:
Sanctuary of Aphrodite (Naxos, Sicily)
this entity surface form:
Aphrodite (Greco-Egyptian identification of Hathor)
subject surface form:
Hippolytus (Euripides)
subject surface form:
Hippolytus (Euripides)