Hippocoon
E516768
Hippocoon is a figure in Greek mythology, a Spartan prince who usurped the throne of Sparta and was later overthrown by Heracles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hippocoon canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5395404 — 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: Hippocoon Context triple: [Tyndareus, sibling, Hippocoon]
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A.
Vacallo
Vacallo is a small municipality in the canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland, located near the Italian border.
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B.
Pericos
Pericos is the popular nickname for Spanish football club RCD Espanyol and its supporters.
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C.
Mytikas
Mytikas is the highest summit of Mount Olympus in Greece, renowned as the country's tallest peak and a prominent destination for hikers and climbers.
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D.
Kodos
Kodos is a recurring alien character from the animated television series "The Simpsons," often appearing in the show's "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween episodes.
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E.
Afilias
Afilias is a global domain name registry services provider known for managing numerous top-level domains and offering DNS infrastructure solutions.
- 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: Hippocoon Target entity description: Hippocoon is a figure in Greek mythology, a Spartan prince who usurped the throne of Sparta and was later overthrown by Heracles.
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A.
Vacallo
Vacallo is a small municipality in the canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland, located near the Italian border.
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B.
Pericos
Pericos is the popular nickname for Spanish football club RCD Espanyol and its supporters.
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C.
Mytikas
Mytikas is the highest summit of Mount Olympus in Greece, renowned as the country's tallest peak and a prominent destination for hikers and climbers.
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D.
Kodos
Kodos is a recurring alien character from the animated television series "The Simpsons," often appearing in the show's "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween episodes.
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E.
Afilias
Afilias is a global domain name registry services provider known for managing numerous top-level domains and offering DNS infrastructure solutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Spartan prince
ⓘ
figure in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| associatedCity | Sparta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Laconia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in battle by Heracles ⓘ |
| children |
Alcimus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alcinous NERFINISHED ⓘ Bucolus NERFINISHED ⓘ Demonassa NERFINISHED ⓘ Dorycleus NERFINISHED ⓘ Enarophorus NERFINISHED ⓘ Eurybius NERFINISHED ⓘ Eurytus NERFINISHED ⓘ Harpalus NERFINISHED ⓘ Hippothous NERFINISHED ⓘ Lycaethus NERFINISHED ⓘ Lycon NERFINISHED ⓘ Scaeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expelled |
Icarius
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tyndareus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Oebalus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| house | royal house of Sparta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | Heracles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pausanias' Description of Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Bateia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Greek mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mythType | royal usurper ⓘ |
| notableEnemy |
Heracles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tyndareus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
death in Heracles' campaign against Sparta
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usurpation of the Spartan throne ⓘ |
| opposedHero | Heracles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overthrownBy | Heracles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | king of Sparta ⓘ |
| restoredThroneTo | Tyndareus (after his death, through Heracles) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ruledIn | Sparta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Icarius
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tyndareus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usurped | throne of Sparta ⓘ |
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: Hippocoon Description of subject: Hippocoon is a figure in Greek mythology, a Spartan prince who usurped the throne of Sparta and was later overthrown by Heracles.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.