Creon of Corinth
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Creon of Corinth is a king in Greek mythology, best known from Euripides’ Medea as the ruler who grants Jason and Medea refuge before later banishing Medea and being killed by her revenge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Creon of Corinth canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9702655 — 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: Creon of Corinth Context triple: [Glauce, father, Creon of Corinth]
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A.
Creon
Creon is a mythological king of Thebes in Greek tragedy, best known for his roles in the stories of Oedipus and Antigone.
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B.
Laius
Laius is a mythological king of Thebes in Greek tragedy, best known for the prophecy that his son would kill him and marry his wife, setting the stage for the story of Oedipus.
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C.
Orestheus
Orestheus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of the flood survivor and progenitor of humankind, Deucalion.
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D.
Pentheus
Pentheus is a tragic king in Greek mythology, best known for opposing the worship of Dionysus and being torn apart by his own mother and aunts in a Dionysian frenzy.
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E.
Polus
Polus is a young, ambitious rhetorician in Plato’s dialogue "Gorgias," often portrayed as an overconfident student of the sophist Gorgias.
- 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: Creon of Corinth Target entity description: Creon of Corinth is a king in Greek mythology, best known from Euripides’ Medea as the ruler who grants Jason and Medea refuge before later banishing Medea and being killed by her revenge.
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A.
Creon
Creon is a mythological king of Thebes in Greek tragedy, best known for his roles in the stories of Oedipus and Antigone.
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B.
Laius
Laius is a mythological king of Thebes in Greek tragedy, best known for the prophecy that his son would kill him and marry his wife, setting the stage for the story of Oedipus.
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C.
Orestheus
Orestheus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of the flood survivor and progenitor of humankind, Deucalion.
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D.
Pentheus
Pentheus is a tragic king in Greek mythology, best known for opposing the worship of Dionysus and being torn apart by his own mother and aunts in a Dionysian frenzy.
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E.
Polus
Polus is a young, ambitious rhetorician in Plato’s dialogue "Gorgias," often portrayed as an overconfident student of the sophist Gorgias.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Greek mythology
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literary character ⓘ mythological king ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Kreon of Corinth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Medea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithWork | Attic tragedy ⓘ |
| banishes |
Medea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
her children ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | murder by Medea ⓘ |
| country | Corinth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Euripides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCauseInMedea | contact with poisoned garments ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | Creon of Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Glauce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Greek mythological cycle ⓘ |
| genre | Greek tragedy ⓘ |
| grantsRefugeTo |
Jason
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Medea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | Medea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | antagonist to Medea ⓘ |
| positionHeld | king of Corinth ⓘ |
| relative | Glauce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
ruler who grants Jason and Medea refuge
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ruler who later banishes Medea ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfMyth | mythic age of heroes ⓘ |
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: Creon of Corinth Description of subject: Creon of Corinth is a king in Greek mythology, best known from Euripides’ Medea as the ruler who grants Jason and Medea refuge before later banishing Medea and being killed by her revenge.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.