Mycale
E337580
Mycale is a promontory on the western coast of Asia Minor, near the island of Samos, known in antiquity as the site of a decisive Greek victory over the Persians during the Greco-Persian Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mycale canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3218115 — 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: Mycale Context triple: [Battle of Mycale, location, Mycale]
-
A.
Salamina
Salamina is the main town and administrative center of Salamis Island in Greece, known for its coastal setting and role as the island’s primary hub of local life and services.
-
B.
Salamina
Salamina is a historic Colombian town in the Caldas Department, renowned for its well-preserved colonial architecture and coffee-growing heritage in the Andean region.
-
C.
Mandraki
Mandraki is the main port town and one of the primary settlements on the Greek island of Hydra, known for its traditional architecture and seaside setting.
-
D.
Maleae
Maleae is a tribe of flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae) that includes many economically important fruit-bearing genera such as apples and pears.
-
E.
Lychnidus
Lychnidus was an ancient town in the Balkans, near Lake Ohrid, that served as an important stop along the Roman Via Egnatia trade and military route.
- 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: Mycale Target entity description: Mycale is a promontory on the western coast of Asia Minor, near the island of Samos, known in antiquity as the site of a decisive Greek victory over the Persians during the Greco-Persian Wars.
-
A.
Salamina
Salamina is the main town and administrative center of Salamis Island in Greece, known for its coastal setting and role as the island’s primary hub of local life and services.
-
B.
Salamina
Salamina is a historic Colombian town in the Caldas Department, renowned for its well-preserved colonial architecture and coffee-growing heritage in the Andean region.
-
C.
Mandraki
Mandraki is the main port town and one of the primary settlements on the Greek island of Hydra, known for its traditional architecture and seaside setting.
-
D.
Maleae
Maleae is a tribe of flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae) that includes many economically important fruit-bearing genera such as apples and pears.
-
E.
Lychnidus
Lychnidus was an ancient town in the Balkans, near Lake Ohrid, that served as an important stop along the Roman Via Egnatia trade and military route.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical feature
ⓘ
promontory ⓘ |
| ancientName |
Mykale
ⓘ
Mycale Peninsula ⓘ
surface form:
Mykale Peninsula
|
| associatedWith |
Achaemenid Empire
ⓘ
Greek city-states ⓘ |
| country | Turkey ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 479 BC ⓘ |
| eventLocation |
Greek victory over Persians
ⓘ
naval and land battle in 479 BC ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
rocky coastline
ⓘ
steep slopes ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Classical antiquity ⓘ |
| knownFor | Battle of Mycale ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aegean Sea region
ⓘ
Asia Minor ⓘ Ionia ⓘ western coast of Asia Minor ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Samos ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
works of Herodotus
ⓘ
surface form:
Herodotus' Histories
ancient Greek historical sources ⓘ |
| modernName |
Karaburun Peninsula
ⓘ
surface form:
Dilek Peninsula
|
| modernRegion | Aydın Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Greco-Persian Wars
ⓘ
Ionian Sea coast ⓘ
surface form:
Ionian coast
|
| protectedArea | Dilek Peninsula-Büyük Menderes Delta National Park ⓘ |
| separates |
Samos
ⓘ
surface form:
Samos from mainland Asia Minor
|
| strategicImportance |
controlled sea routes near Samos
ⓘ
key position in Aegean naval warfare ⓘ |
| terrain | mountainous ⓘ |
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: Mycale Description of subject: Mycale is a promontory on the western coast of Asia Minor, near the island of Samos, known in antiquity as the site of a decisive Greek victory over the Persians during the Greco-Persian Wars.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.