Ulysses
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Ulysses is the Latin name for Odysseus, the legendary Greek hero of Homer’s epics known for his cunning and long, perilous journey home after the Trojan War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ulysses canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4757718 — 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: Ulysses Context triple: [Inferno, featuresCharacter, Ulysses]
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A.
Ulysses
Ulysses is a small town in Tompkins County, New York, known for its rural character and proximity to Cayuga Lake and the Finger Lakes region.
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B.
Ulysses
"Ulysses" is a dramatic monologue poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that reflects on aging, heroism, and the restless desire for continued adventure and purpose.
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C.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is James Joyce’s experimental modernist novel renowned for its dense, multilingual wordplay and radically unconventional narrative style.
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D.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a modernist novel tracing the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus, widely regarded as James Joyce’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age work.
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E.
James Joyce's Ulysses
James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.
- 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: Ulysses Target entity description: Ulysses is the Latin name for Odysseus, the legendary Greek hero of Homer’s epics known for his cunning and long, perilous journey home after the Trojan War.
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A.
Ulysses
Ulysses is a small town in Tompkins County, New York, known for its rural character and proximity to Cayuga Lake and the Finger Lakes region.
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B.
Ulysses
"Ulysses" is a dramatic monologue poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that reflects on aging, heroism, and the restless desire for continued adventure and purpose.
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C.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is James Joyce’s experimental modernist novel renowned for its dense, multilingual wordplay and radically unconventional narrative style.
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D.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a modernist novel tracing the intellectual and spiritual development of Stephen Dedalus, widely regarded as James Joyce’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age work.
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E.
James Joyce's Ulysses
James Joyce's Ulysses is a landmark modernist novel that parallels a single day in Dublin with the epic structure of classical myth, renowned for its stream-of-consciousness style and linguistic experimentation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
epicPoetryCharacter
ⓘ
literaryCharacter ⓘ mythologicalHero ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Aeneid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iliad NERFINISHED ⓘ Odyssey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
identity
ⓘ
nostos ⓘ testingOfLoyalty ⓘ |
| associatedWithSeaVoyage | yes ⓘ |
| child | Telemachus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | AncientGreekMythology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| devisedStratagem | TrojanHorse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| encountersCreature |
Charybdis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CyclopsPolyphemus NERFINISHED ⓘ Scylla NERFINISHED ⓘ Sirens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| encountersDeity |
Athena
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hermes NERFINISHED ⓘ Poseidon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| encountersFigure |
Calypso
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Circe NERFINISHED ⓘ Nausicaa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| equivalentTo | Odysseus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Laertes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| flaw |
curiosity
ⓘ
pride ⓘ |
| hasLatinNameOf | Odysseus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homeland | Ithaca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| journeyDuration | tenYears ⓘ |
| killsGroup | PenelopeSuitors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
TrojanWarParticipation
ⓘ
cunning ⓘ longJourneyHome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageForm | Latin ⓘ |
| mother | Anticlea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonistOfOdyssey ⓘ |
| notableEpisode |
BlindingOfPolyphemus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ReturnToIthacaInDisguise NERFINISHED ⓘ VisitToUnderworld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalNameLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| roleInTrojanWar | GreekLeader ⓘ |
| spouse | Penelope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | KingOfIthaca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| totalAbsenceFromHome | twentyYears ⓘ |
| virtue |
endurance
ⓘ
intelligence ⓘ resourcefulness ⓘ |
| warDuration | tenYears ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ulysses Description of subject: Ulysses is the Latin name for Odysseus, the legendary Greek hero of Homer’s epics known for his cunning and long, perilous journey home after the Trojan War.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.