Therimachus
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Therimachus is a lesser-known figure in Greek mythology, traditionally mentioned as one of the children of the hero Heracles and his wife Deianira.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Therimachus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5175974 — 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: Therimachus Context triple: [Deianira, hasChild, Therimachus]
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A.
Echecrates
Echecrates is a Pythagorean philosopher who appears in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo" as the interlocutor to whom Phaedo recounts the final conversation and death of Socrates.
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B.
Charmides
Charmides is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that explores the nature of temperance or self-control through a philosophical conversation between Socrates and the young Charmides.
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C.
Adeimantus
Adeimantus is a prominent interlocutor in Plato’s Republic, known for his probing questions about justice, education, and the ideal state.
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D.
Polemarchus
Polemarchus is a historical Athenian philosopher and wealthy metic best known as an early interlocutor in Plato’s Republic, where he presents and defends a traditional view of justice.
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E.
Eryximachus
Eryximachus is a physician and one of the speakers in Plato’s *Symposium*, known for giving a speech on love from a medical and cosmic perspective.
- 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: Therimachus Target entity description: Therimachus is a lesser-known figure in Greek mythology, traditionally mentioned as one of the children of the hero Heracles and his wife Deianira.
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A.
Echecrates
Echecrates is a Pythagorean philosopher who appears in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo" as the interlocutor to whom Phaedo recounts the final conversation and death of Socrates.
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B.
Charmides
Charmides is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that explores the nature of temperance or self-control through a philosophical conversation between Socrates and the young Charmides.
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C.
Adeimantus
Adeimantus is a prominent interlocutor in Plato’s Republic, known for his probing questions about justice, education, and the ideal state.
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D.
Polemarchus
Polemarchus is a historical Athenian philosopher and wealthy metic best known as an early interlocutor in Plato’s Republic, where he presents and defends a traditional view of justice.
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E.
Eryximachus
Eryximachus is a physician and one of the speakers in Plato’s *Symposium*, known for giving a speech on love from a medical and cosmic perspective.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mythological figure ⓘ |
| appearsInTradition | Heracles legends ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Heracles and Deianira family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| childOf |
Deianira
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heracles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek mythology ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Greek (mythological) ⓘ |
| fameLevel | lesser-known figure ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandchildOf |
Alcmene
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Zeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalRole | offspring of a hero ⓘ |
| knownFrom | later mythographical tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Ancient Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Heracleidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Alcmene
NERFINISHED
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Zeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Ctesippus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glenus NERFINISHED ⓘ Hyllus NERFINISHED ⓘ Onites 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: Therimachus Description of subject: Therimachus is a lesser-known figure in Greek mythology, traditionally mentioned as one of the children of the hero Heracles and his wife Deianira.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.