Hermia
E494610
Hermia is a strong-willed young Athenian woman in Shakespeare’s comedy *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, known for defying her father’s wishes to pursue her true love.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hermia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5109920 — 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: Hermia Context triple: [A Midsummer Night's Dream, mainCharacter, Hermia]
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A.
Thisbe
Thisbe is a tragic heroine from classical mythology, best known from the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe, whose doomed love story inspired later works like Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet."
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B.
Ariadne
Ariadne is a gifted architecture student in the film "Inception" who designs complex dreamscapes and becomes a key ally to Dom Cobb in navigating and manipulating shared dreams.
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C.
Ariadne
Ariadne is a figure from Greek mythology, best known as the Cretan princess who helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur and later became associated with the god Dionysus.
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D.
Lysander
Lysander was a prominent Spartan naval commander whose leadership was crucial in securing Sparta’s victory over Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War.
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E.
Alcione
Alcione is the nickname of the Italian World War II-era Cant Z.1007 medium bomber aircraft.
- 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: Hermia Target entity description: Hermia is a strong-willed young Athenian woman in Shakespeare’s comedy *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, known for defying her father’s wishes to pursue her true love.
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A.
Thisbe
Thisbe is a tragic heroine from classical mythology, best known from the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe, whose doomed love story inspired later works like Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet."
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B.
Ariadne
Ariadne is a gifted architecture student in the film "Inception" who designs complex dreamscapes and becomes a key ally to Dom Cobb in navigating and manipulating shared dreams.
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C.
Ariadne
Ariadne is a figure from Greek mythology, best known as the Cretan princess who helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur and later became associated with the god Dionysus.
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D.
Lysander
Lysander was a prominent Spartan naval commander whose leadership was crucial in securing Sparta’s victory over Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War.
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E.
Alcione
Alcione is the nickname of the Italian World War II-era Cant Z.1007 medium bomber aircraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shakespearean character
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A Midsummer Night’s Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInAct |
Act I of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
NERFINISHED
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Act II of A Midsummer Night’s Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ Act III of A Midsummer Night’s Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ Act IV of A Midsummer Night’s Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ Act V of A Midsummer Night’s Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
the Athenian court
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the enchanted forest ⓘ |
| betrothedByFatherTo | Demetrius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defies |
Athenian law
ⓘ
Egeus’s wishes ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceContext | Elizabethan theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fleesTo | the forest outside Athens ⓘ |
| fleesWith | Lysander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf | Helena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasFather | Egeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRomanticPartner | Lysander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
courage
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loyalty ⓘ passion ⓘ stubbornness ⓘ |
| inLoveWith | Lysander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isA |
strong-willed woman
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young woman ⓘ |
| isDaughterOf | Egeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLovedBy | Demetrius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Early Modern English (dialogue) ⓘ |
| loves | Lysander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Athenian ⓘ |
| partOf | the group of young lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream ⓘ |
| residence | Athens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
friendship conflict with Helena
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romantic conflict with Demetrius and Lysander ⓘ |
| themeRelatedTo |
individual choice
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marriage law ⓘ patriarchal authority ⓘ rebellion ⓘ romantic love ⓘ |
| threatenedWith |
convent life
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death under Athenian law ⓘ forced marriage to Demetrius ⓘ |
| workLocation | Ancient Athens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hermia Description of subject: Hermia is a strong-willed young Athenian woman in Shakespeare’s comedy *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, known for defying her father’s wishes to pursue her true love.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.