King Augeas
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King Augeas is a figure from Greek mythology, a king of Elis best known for his immense cattle herds and the filthy stables that Heracles was tasked with cleaning as one of his Twelve Labors.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Augeas | 3 |
| King Augeas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4886348 — 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: King Augeas Context triple: [Augean Stables, ownedBy, King Augeas]
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A.
Pelops
Pelops is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of Tantalus whose descendants formed a powerful and ill-fated royal lineage marked by curses and tragic events.
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B.
Salmoneus
Salmoneus is a figure in Greek mythology, a king of Elis known for his hubristic attempt to imitate Zeus and for being the father of Tyro.
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C.
King Ergamenes
King Ergamenes was a reformist ruler of the ancient Nubian kingdom of Meroë, known for breaking priestly power and reshaping the monarchy’s authority.
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D.
Gyges
Gyges is one of the three Hecatoncheires in Greek mythology, a primordial giant with a hundred hands and fifty heads who aided the Olympian gods in their battle against the Titans.
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E.
Gyges
Gyges was an early 7th-century BCE king of Lydia, known from both Greek and Near Eastern sources for founding the Mermnad dynasty and dramatically seizing the throne.
- 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: King Augeas Target entity description: King Augeas is a figure from Greek mythology, a king of Elis best known for his immense cattle herds and the filthy stables that Heracles was tasked with cleaning as one of his Twelve Labors.
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A.
Pelops
Pelops is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of Tantalus whose descendants formed a powerful and ill-fated royal lineage marked by curses and tragic events.
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B.
Salmoneus
Salmoneus is a figure in Greek mythology, a king of Elis known for his hubristic attempt to imitate Zeus and for being the father of Tyro.
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C.
King Ergamenes
King Ergamenes was a reformist ruler of the ancient Nubian kingdom of Meroë, known for breaking priestly power and reshaping the monarchy’s authority.
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D.
Gyges
Gyges is one of the three Hecatoncheires in Greek mythology, a primordial giant with a hundred hands and fifty heads who aided the Olympian gods in their battle against the Titans.
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E.
Gyges
Gyges was an early 7th-century BCE king of Lydia, known from both Greek and Near Eastern sources for founding the Mermnad dynasty and dramatically seizing the throne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
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mortal in Greek mythology ⓘ mythological king ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Augean stables
NERFINISHED
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Elis in the Peloponnese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Elis
NERFINISHED
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Helios NERFINISHED ⓘ Heracles NERFINISHED ⓘ Phyleus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in war against Heracles ⓘ |
| conflict | war with Heracles and his allies ⓘ |
| country | Elis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Greek culture ⓘ |
| event |
banished his son Phyleus from Elis
NERFINISHED
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contracted with Heracles to clean the Augean stables ⓘ promised Heracles a reward for cleaning the stables in one day ⓘ refused to pay Heracles after the stables were cleaned ⓘ was later killed by Heracles ⓘ was taken to court by his son Phyleus supporting Heracles ⓘ |
| father |
Helios
NERFINISHED
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Phorbas NERFINISHED ⓘ Poseidon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featureOf | Augean stables were extremely filthy ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasPossession |
Augean stables
NERFINISHED
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vast herds of cattle ⓘ |
| killedBy | Heracles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laborInvolved | cleaning of the Augean stables ⓘ |
| literaryWork |
appears in Hyginus Fabulae
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appears in Pseudo-Apollodorus Bibliotheca NERFINISHED ⓘ mentioned in Pausanias Description of Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother |
Iphiboe
NERFINISHED
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Naiad NERFINISHED ⓘ Nausidame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mythologicalContext | Twelve Labors of Heracles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Augeas
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Augias NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Augean stables
NERFINISHED
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immense cattle herds ⓘ role in the Twelve Labors of Heracles ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Agasthenes
NERFINISHED
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Epicaste NERFINISHED ⓘ Phyleus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | king of Elis ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| spouse |
Epicaste
NERFINISHED
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Iphiboe NERFINISHED ⓘ Nausidame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: King Augeas Description of subject: King Augeas is a figure from Greek mythology, a king of Elis best known for his immense cattle herds and the filthy stables that Heracles was tasked with cleaning as one of his Twelve Labors.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Augeas
this entity surface form:
Augeas
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Augeas