Machaon
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Machaon is a figure from Greek mythology, renowned as a skilled healer and son of the legendary physician Asclepius.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Machaon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7225962 — 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: Machaon Context triple: [Panacea, sibling, Machaon]
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A.
Mazaces
Mazaces was a late Achaemenid Persian official who briefly governed Egypt as satrap during the empire’s final years before Alexander the Great’s conquest.
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B.
Macha
Macha is a figure from Irish mythology, often associated with sovereignty, war, and horses, and is one of the aspects of the triple goddess Morrígan.
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C.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
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D.
Machir
Machir is a biblical tribal group or clan associated with the descendants of Manasseh, noted in the Hebrew Bible for its role in Israelite warfare and settlement east of the Jordan.
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E.
Echenique
Echenique is a Spanish-language surname of Basque origin borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and public life across the Spanish-speaking world.
- 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: Machaon Target entity description: Machaon is a figure from Greek mythology, renowned as a skilled healer and son of the legendary physician Asclepius.
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A.
Mazaces
Mazaces was a late Achaemenid Persian official who briefly governed Egypt as satrap during the empire’s final years before Alexander the Great’s conquest.
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B.
Macha
Macha is a figure from Irish mythology, often associated with sovereignty, war, and horses, and is one of the aspects of the triple goddess Morrígan.
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C.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
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D.
Machir
Machir is a biblical tribal group or clan associated with the descendants of Manasseh, noted in the Hebrew Bible for its role in Israelite warfare and settlement east of the Jordan.
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E.
Echenique
Echenique is a Spanish-language surname of Basque origin borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and public life across the Spanish-speaking world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mythological healer ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Iliad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Asclepius cult NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Gerenia in Messenia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commanded |
warriors from Ithome
ⓘ
warriors from Oechalia ⓘ warriors from Tricca ⓘ |
| cultType | hero cult ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| deathContext | battle of the Trojan War ⓘ |
| epithet |
blameless physician
ⓘ
skilled healer ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Greek ⓘ |
| father | Asclepius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| healed |
Menelaus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philoctetes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | Eurypylus son of Telephus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
healing wounded warriors
ⓘ
medical skill ⓘ surgical expertise ⓘ |
| lineage | Asclepiad ⓘ |
| mentionedBy | Homer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Epione NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mythologicalCycle | Trojan War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
physician
ⓘ
surgeon ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Alexanor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nicomachus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rescuedBy | Nestor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWar | Greek ally in Trojan War ⓘ |
| sibling |
Aceso
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aglaea NERFINISHED ⓘ Hygieia NERFINISHED ⓘ Iaso NERFINISHED ⓘ Panacea NERFINISHED ⓘ Podalirius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceText |
Homeric epics
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
later Greek mythographers ⓘ |
| symbolicDomain |
medicine
ⓘ
surgery ⓘ |
| transportedIn | Nestor’s chariot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worshippedAt |
Gerenia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tricca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| woundedBy |
Paris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
an arrow ⓘ |
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: Machaon Description of subject: Machaon is a figure from Greek mythology, renowned as a skilled healer and son of the legendary physician Asclepius.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.