Theseus and the Marathonian Bull

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"Theseus and the Marathonian Bull" is a Greek myth recounting how the hero Theseus captured and subdued the ferocious bull of Marathon as one of his early heroic exploits.

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Theseus and the Marathonian Bull canonical 1

Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek myth
heroic exploit
chronologicalPosition early exploit of Theseus
depicts Theseus as a monster-slayer
featuresCreature Marathonian Bull NERFINISHED
genre mythological narrative
hasAntagonist Marathonian Bull NERFINISHED
hasCulture Ancient Greek
hasHero Theseus NERFINISHED
hasLanguageOfOrigin Ancient Greek
hasLocation Attica NERFINISHED
hasMoralAspect courage against monstrous threats
service to the polis
hasSetting Marathon NERFINISHED
hasTheme civilizing wild nature
heroism
protection of the community
involvesAction capture of a bull
subduing a ferocious bull
mainCharacter Theseus NERFINISHED
partOfCycle Theseus myths NERFINISHED
partOfTradition Greek mythology
relatedMyth Theseus and the Minotaur NERFINISHED
relatedWork Labours of Theseus NERFINISHED
timeOfOrigin antiquity

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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.
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Subject: Theseus and the Marathonian Bull
Description of subject: "Theseus and the Marathonian Bull" is a Greek myth recounting how the hero Theseus captured and subdued the ferocious bull of Marathon as one of his early heroic exploits.

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myths of Theseus includesMyth Theseus and the Marathonian Bull