Demetrius
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Demetrius is a masculine given name of ancient Greek origin, historically borne by several notable figures including saints, rulers, and philosophers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Demetrius canonical | 2 |
| Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10346258 — 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: Demetrius Context triple: [Dimitri, hasVariant, Demetrius]
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A.
Demetrius
Demetrius is a Christian figure mentioned in the New Testament’s Third Epistle of John, commended for his good testimony and faithfulness.
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B.
Demetrius
Demetrius is a central character in Shakespeare's comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream," known as a fickle Athenian lover entangled in the play's romantic confusions and magical interventions.
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C.
Demetrius
Demetrius is one of the villainous Gothic princes in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Titus Andronicus," known for his brutality and role in the play’s cycle of revenge.
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D.
Demetrius
Demetrius is a central fictional character in Lloyd C. Douglas’s novel and its film adaptation "The Robe," known as a Greek slave whose life is transformed by his encounter with early Christianity.
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E.
Demetrius
Demetrius was the given name of Demetrius I of Georgia, a medieval Georgian king from the Bagrationi dynasty known for both his rule and his contributions to Georgian poetry and culture.
- 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: Demetrius Target entity description: Demetrius is a masculine given name of ancient Greek origin, historically borne by several notable figures including saints, rulers, and philosophers.
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A.
Demetrius
Demetrius is a Christian figure mentioned in the New Testament’s Third Epistle of John, commended for his good testimony and faithfulness.
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B.
Demetrius
Demetrius is a central character in Shakespeare's comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream," known as a fickle Athenian lover entangled in the play's romantic confusions and magical interventions.
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C.
Demetrius
Demetrius is one of the villainous Gothic princes in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Titus Andronicus," known for his brutality and role in the play’s cycle of revenge.
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D.
Demetrius
Demetrius is a central fictional character in Lloyd C. Douglas’s novel and its film adaptation "The Robe," known as a Greek slave whose life is transformed by his encounter with early Christianity.
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E.
Demetrius
Demetrius was the given name of Demetrius I of Georgia, a medieval Georgian king from the Bagrationi dynasty known for both his rule and his contributions to Georgian poetry and culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek given name
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given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| associatedDeity | Demeter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToOnomasticCategory |
Greek masculine given names
ⓘ
theophoric given names ⓘ |
| category | theophoric name ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Demeter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| etymologicalForm | Dēmḗtrios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasFeminineForm |
Demetria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dimitra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLatinizedForm | Demetrius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOriginInCulture | Greek culture ⓘ |
| hasShortForm | Demi (in some languages and contexts) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Demetrios
NERFINISHED
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Demetrios (modern Greek form) ⓘ Demetrios (transliteration) NERFINISHED ⓘ Dimitri NERFINISHED ⓘ Dimitrios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalUsagePeriod |
Byzantine period
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Classical antiquity ⓘ Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| isCognateWith |
Dimitar
NERFINISHED
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Dmitry NERFINISHED ⓘ Dmytro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| meaning |
belonging to Demeter
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devoted to Demeter ⓘ |
| nameDayObservedIn | Eastern Orthodox Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameType | personal name ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Demetrius I of Macedon
NERFINISHED
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Demetrius II Aetolicus NERFINISHED ⓘ Demetrius of Phalerum NERFINISHED ⓘ Demetrius of Thessaloniki NERFINISHED ⓘ Demetrius the Cynic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfUsage |
Eastern Mediterranean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greek-speaking world ⓘ |
| semanticField |
agriculture
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fertility ⓘ |
| transliterationStandard | Latin alphabet transliteration of Δημήτριος ⓘ |
| usedBy |
philosophers
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rulers ⓘ saints ⓘ |
| usedInReligion | Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Greek alphabet 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: Demetrius Description of subject: Demetrius is a masculine given name of ancient Greek origin, historically borne by several notable figures including saints, rulers, and philosophers.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher