Thargelion
E397468
Thargelion was a spring month in the ancient Attic calendar, roughly corresponding to parts of May and June in the modern Gregorian calendar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thargelion canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3891999 — 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: Thargelion Context triple: [Thargelia, monthInAtticCalendar, Thargelion]
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A.
Teurnia
Teurnia was an important ancient Roman city that served as a major administrative and cultural center in the province of Noricum, located in what is now southern Austria.
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B.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
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C.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois is a French red wine grape variety more commonly known as Malbec, widely used in robust, deeply colored wines.
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D.
Chthonia
Chthonia is an epithet of the goddess Hecate emphasizing her role as an underworld and earth-associated deity linked to the hidden, chthonic realms.
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E.
Smargadus
Smargadus was the exarch of Ravenna who commissioned the Column of Phocas in the Roman Forum in the early 7th century.
- 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: Thargelion Target entity description: Thargelion was a spring month in the ancient Attic calendar, roughly corresponding to parts of May and June in the modern Gregorian calendar.
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A.
Teurnia
Teurnia was an important ancient Roman city that served as a major administrative and cultural center in the province of Noricum, located in what is now southern Austria.
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B.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
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C.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois is a French red wine grape variety more commonly known as Malbec, widely used in robust, deeply colored wines.
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D.
Chthonia
Chthonia is an epithet of the goddess Hecate emphasizing her role as an underworld and earth-associated deity linked to the hidden, chthonic realms.
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E.
Smargadus
Smargadus was the exarch of Ravenna who commissioned the Column of Phocas in the Roman Forum in the early 7th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Attic month
ⓘ
month ⓘ |
| associatedDeity |
Apollo
ⓘ
Artemis ⓘ |
| associatedFestival | Thargelia ⓘ |
| calendarFunction | regulated civic and religious festivals in Athens ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunisolar calendar ⓘ |
| chronologicalContext |
Classical Athens
ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| correspondsApproximatelyTo |
June
ⓘ
May ⓘ |
| culture |
Classical Athens
ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Athens
|
| follows | Mounichion ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Thargelia festival ⓘ |
| partOf | Attic calendar ⓘ |
| positionInYear | 11th month of the Attic year ⓘ |
| precedes | Skirophorion ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | harvest and purification rites ⓘ |
| season | spring ⓘ |
| timeFrame | roughly late May to early June ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Athenians
ⓘ
other Greek poleis using Attic-style calendars ⓘ |
| usedIn | ancient Attic calendar ⓘ |
| writingSystemOfName | Greek alphabet ⓘ |
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: Thargelion Description of subject: Thargelion was a spring month in the ancient Attic calendar, roughly corresponding to parts of May and June in the modern Gregorian calendar.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.