Ogygia
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Ogygia is the remote, mythical island in Greek mythology where the nymph Calypso detained Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ogygia canonical | 4 |
| Calypso's cave | 1 |
| Calypso's island | 1 |
| Calypso's island Ogygia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T331433 — 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: Ogygia Context triple: [Calypso, residesIn, Ogygia]
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A.
Aegina
Aegina is a Greek island in the Saronic Gulf, historically significant as a maritime power and cultural center in ancient Greece.
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B.
Samos
Samos is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, historically significant as a center of Ionian culture and the birthplace of the philosopher Pythagoras.
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C.
Delos
Delos is a sacred Aegean island revered in ancient Greek religion as the legendary birthplace of Apollo and Artemis and a major religious and commercial center.
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D.
Lesbos
Lesbos is a large Greek island in the northeastern Aegean Sea, known for its rich ancient history, distinctive culture, and association with the poet Sappho.
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E.
Euboea
Euboea is the second-largest Greek island, located off the eastern coast of mainland Greece in the Aegean Sea.
- 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: Ogygia Target entity description: Ogygia is the remote, mythical island in Greek mythology where the nymph Calypso detained Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
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A.
Aegina
Aegina is a Greek island in the Saronic Gulf, historically significant as a maritime power and cultural center in ancient Greece.
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B.
Samos
Samos is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, historically significant as a center of Ionian culture and the birthplace of the philosopher Pythagoras.
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C.
Delos
Delos is a sacred Aegean island revered in ancient Greek religion as the legendary birthplace of Apollo and Artemis and a major religious and commercial center.
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D.
Lesbos
Lesbos is a large Greek island in the northeastern Aegean Sea, known for its rich ancient history, distinctive culture, and association with the poet Sappho.
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E.
Euboea
Euboea is the second-largest Greek island, located off the eastern coast of mainland Greece in the Aegean Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
location in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mythical island ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Homer's Odyssey ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Calypso
ⓘ
Odysseus ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| departureFrom | Odysseus sails on a raft ⓘ |
| describedAs |
enchanted island
ⓘ
remote island ⓘ |
| describedBy | Homer ⓘ |
| detentionDurationOfOdysseus | seven years ⓘ |
| detentionPlaceOf | Odysseus ⓘ |
| environmentFeatures |
lush forests
ⓘ
meadows ⓘ springs ⓘ vines and fruit trees ⓘ |
| episodeOf |
Homer's Odyssey
ⓘ
surface form:
Odysseus's nostos
|
| firstAttestedIn |
Homer's Odyssey
ⓘ
surface form:
Odyssey
|
| genreContext | heroic epic ⓘ |
| hasPrimarySource |
Odyssey Book 12 (references)
ⓘ
Homer's Odyssey ⓘ
surface form:
Odyssey Book 5
Odyssey Book 7 (references) ⓘ |
| hosted |
Ogygia
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Calypso's cave
|
| inhabitedBy | Calypso ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Calypso's love for Odysseus
ⓘ
delaying Odysseus's return to Ithaca ⓘ |
| languageOfEarliestSource | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Epic poetry ⓘ |
| locatedInNarrative | Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| mythologicalFunction | symbol of delay and temptation ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | setting of Odysseus and Calypso episode ⓘ |
| nature | paradisiacal but imprisoning ⓘ |
| orderedToBeLeftBy | Zeus ⓘ |
| partOf | Odyssean wanderings ⓘ |
| releasedOdysseusByCommandOf | Zeus ⓘ |
| ruledBy | Calypso ⓘ |
| sometimesIdentifiedWith |
Atlantic island
ⓘ
Gozo ⓘ Malta ⓘ |
| surroundedBy | sea ⓘ |
| symbolInLiterature |
divine-human relationship
ⓘ
erotic captivity ⓘ isolation ⓘ |
| timePeriodInMyth | post-Trojan War wanderings of Odysseus ⓘ |
| uncertainRealWorldLocation | true ⓘ |
| visitedBy |
Hermes
ⓘ
Odysseus ⓘ |
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: Ogygia Description of subject: Ogygia is the remote, mythical island in Greek mythology where the nymph Calypso detained Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Calypso's island
this entity surface form:
Calypso's island Ogygia