Cranaus

E346010

King of Athens legendary figure mythological Greek king

Cranaus is a legendary early king of Athens in Greek mythology, often associated with the city's primeval history before the time of more famous rulers like Erechtheus and Theseus.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Cranaus canonical	1
Cranaus the Autochthon	1

Statements (35)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	King of Athens ⓘ legendary figure ⓘ mythological Greek king ⓘ
associatedPlace	Attica ⓘ
associatedWith	autocthonous Athenians ⓘ primeval history of Athens ⓘ
category	Attic mythology ⓘ Kings in Greek mythology ⓘ Mythological kings of Athens ⓘ
child	Atthis ⓘ Cranae ⓘ Cranaechme ⓘ
culture	Ancient Greek mythology ⓘ
describedAs	autochthonous ⓘ
epithet	Cranaus self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Cranaus the Autochthon
gender	male ⓘ
honoredIn	Athenian local traditions ⓘ
languageOfTradition	Ancient Greek ⓘ
mentionedBy	Apollodorus of Athens ⓘ surface form: Apollodorus Hyginus ⓘ Pausanias ⓘ
mythologicalContext	predecessor of Erechtheus and Theseus in Athenian king lists ⓘ
mythologicalEra	early kings of Athens cycle ⓘ pre-Deucalion flood era ⓘ
nameEtymology	possibly related to Greek word for rocky or rugged (kranaos) ⓘ
notableEvent	reign said to coincide with the flood of Deucalion ⓘ
overthrownBy	Amphictyon ⓘ
positionHeld	Erichthonius of Athens ⓘ surface form: King of Athens
precededBy	Erechtheus ⓘ surface form: Cecrops I
reignedOver	Athens ⓘ Attica ⓘ
residence	Athens ⓘ
spouse	Pedias ⓘ Pedias, daughter of Cranaus (variant traditions)? ⓘ
succeededBy	Amphictyon ⓘ

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: Cranaus
Description of subject: Cranaus is a legendary early king of Athens in Greek mythology, often associated with the city's primeval history before the time of more famous rulers like Erechtheus and Theseus.

Referenced by (2)

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

Amphictyon → predecessor → Cranaus ⓘ

Cranaus → epithet → Cranaus self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cranaus the Autochthon