Proetus
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Proetus is a king in Greek mythology, often associated with the city of Tiryns and known for his conflicts with his twin brother Acrisius and his role in the story of Bellerophon.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6303906 — 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: Proetus Context triple: [Hypermnestra, grandchild, Proetus]
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A.
Lynceus
Lynceus is a figure in Greek mythology renowned as one of the Argonauts, famed for his exceptionally keen eyesight.
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Phorcydes
Phorcydes is a primordial sea-deity figure from Greek mythology, often associated with ancient oceanic powers and monstrous offspring.
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C.
Mardontes
Mardontes was a Persian military commander who led Achaemenid forces against the Greeks during the Greco-Persian Wars, notably at the Battle of Mycale.
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Iberus
Iberus is the ancient Latin name for the Ebro River, one of the major rivers of the Iberian Peninsula in present-day Spain.
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E.
Zethus
Zethus is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of Zeus and Antiope and twin brother of Amphion, known as a co-founder and ruler of the city of Thebes.
- 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: Proetus Target entity description: Proetus is a king in Greek mythology, often associated with the city of Tiryns and known for his conflicts with his twin brother Acrisius and his role in the story of Bellerophon.
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A.
Lynceus
Lynceus is a figure in Greek mythology renowned as one of the Argonauts, famed for his exceptionally keen eyesight.
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B.
Phorcydes
Phorcydes is a primordial sea-deity figure from Greek mythology, often associated with ancient oceanic powers and monstrous offspring.
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C.
Mardontes
Mardontes was a Persian military commander who led Achaemenid forces against the Greeks during the Greco-Persian Wars, notably at the Battle of Mycale.
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D.
Iberus
Iberus is the ancient Latin name for the Ebro River, one of the major rivers of the Iberian Peninsula in present-day Spain.
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E.
Zethus
Zethus is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of Zeus and Antiope and twin brother of Amphion, known as a co-founder and ruler of the city of Thebes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Greek mythology
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mythological king ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca
NERFINISHED
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Homeric tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ Pausanias’ Description of Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ Pindar’s odes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedDeity |
Dionysus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedHero | Bellerophon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Tiryns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Argolis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtOrFortified | Tiryns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDaughtersMadness |
offense against Hera
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rejection of Dionysus ⓘ |
| collectiveChildren | Proetides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictType | dynastic rivalry ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Acrisius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek mythology ⓘ |
| curedDaughtersBy | Melampus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| daughter |
Iphianassa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iphinoe NERFINISHED ⓘ Lysippe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dividedKingdomWith | Acrisius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employedCraftsmen | Cyclopes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Abas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandfather | Lynceus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| greatGrandfather | Aegyptus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Ancient Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother |
Aglaea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ocalea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mythCycle | Argive cycle ⓘ |
| mythRole |
father of the mad Proetides
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king who persecuted Bellerophon ⓘ |
| offeredPortionOfKingdomTo | Melampus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| questAssigned | Slay the Chimera ⓘ |
| rewardedHealer | Melampus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ruledCity | Tiryns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ruledTerritory | eastern Argolis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sentHeroOnQuest | Bellerophon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anteia
NERFINISHED
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Stheneboea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseAliasOf |
Anteia
NERFINISHED
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Stheneboea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
King of Argos
NERFINISHED
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King of Tiryns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twinBrother | Acrisius 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: Proetus Description of subject: Proetus is a king in Greek mythology, often associated with the city of Tiryns and known for his conflicts with his twin brother Acrisius and his role in the story of Bellerophon.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.