Κάδμος
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Κάδμος is a legendary Phoenician prince and founder of the city of Thebes in Greek mythology, famed for introducing the alphabet to the Greeks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Κάδμος canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5411134 — 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: Κάδμος Context triple: [Σεμέλη, father, Κάδμος]
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A.
Helinus
Helinus is a small genus of flowering plants known for its climbing or scrambling shrubs, classified within the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae.
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B.
Eresus
Eresus is an ancient town on the Greek island of Lesbos, historically notable as the birthplace of the philosopher Theophrastus.
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C.
Hekademos
Hekademos (or Hecademus) was an Athenian hero or local figure whose grove outside Athens became the site of Plato’s Academy, giving the school its name.
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D.
Euphranor
Euphranor is a central philosophical interlocutor in George Berkeley’s dialogue "Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher," representing the Christian perspective in debates against freethinkers.
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E.
Zaleucus
Zaleucus was an early Greek lawgiver, traditionally credited with creating one of the first written legal codes in the Western world for the colony of Locri Epizephyrii in southern Italy.
- 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: Κάδμος Target entity description: Κάδμος is a legendary Phoenician prince and founder of the city of Thebes in Greek mythology, famed for introducing the alphabet to the Greeks.
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A.
Helinus
Helinus is a small genus of flowering plants known for its climbing or scrambling shrubs, classified within the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae.
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B.
Eresus
Eresus is an ancient town on the Greek island of Lesbos, historically notable as the birthplace of the philosopher Theophrastus.
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C.
Hekademos
Hekademos (or Hecademus) was an Athenian hero or local figure whose grove outside Athens became the site of Plato’s Academy, giving the school its name.
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D.
Euphranor
Euphranor is a central philosophical interlocutor in George Berkeley’s dialogue "Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher," representing the Christian perspective in debates against freethinkers.
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E.
Zaleucus
Zaleucus was an early Greek lawgiver, traditionally credited with creating one of the first written legal codes in the Western world for the colony of Locri Epizephyrii in southern Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Phoenician prince
ⓘ
culture hero ⓘ hero of Greek mythology ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Απολλόδωρος Βιβλιοθήκη
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ευριπίδης Βάκχες NERFINISHED ⓘ Ησίοδος Θεογονία NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
alphabet
ⓘ
city founding myths ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Θήβα Βοιωτίας NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Αγαύη
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Αυτόνοη ⓘ Ινώ NERFINISHED ⓘ Πολύδωρος NERFINISHED ⓘ Σεμέλη NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| created | Spartoi (sown men) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creditedWith | bringing Phoenician letters to Greece ⓘ |
| culture |
Greek mythology
ⓘ
Phoenician mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Φοίνικας NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Αγήνωρ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Θήβα Βοιωτίας ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandchild | Διόνυσος NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honoredBy | gods of Olympus ⓘ |
| killed | dragon of Ares ⓘ |
| mentorOrAdvisor | Μαντείο των Δελφών NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Τηλέφασσα NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mythologicalCycle | Theban cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding the city of Thebes in Boeotia
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introducing the alphabet to the Greeks ⓘ slaying a dragon sacred to Ares ⓘ sowing dragon’s teeth that became armed warriors ⓘ |
| orderedBy | Αγήνωρ ⓘ |
| origin | Φοινίκη NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| penance | served Ares for eight years ⓘ |
| quest | search for Europa ⓘ |
| receivedOracleTo | follow a cow and found a city where it lay down ⓘ |
| roleInMyth | ancestor of many Theban royal figures ⓘ |
| servedDeity | Άρης ⓘ |
| sibling |
Ευρώπη
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Κίλικας NERFINISHED ⓘ Φοίνιξ ⓘ |
| sowed | dragon’s teeth ⓘ |
| spouse | Αρμονία NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseTransformedInto | serpent ⓘ |
| transformedInto | serpent ⓘ |
| worshippedAt | Θήβα 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: Κάδμος Description of subject: Κάδμος is a legendary Phoenician prince and founder of the city of Thebes in Greek mythology, famed for introducing the alphabet to the Greeks.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.