Philomelus

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Philomelus was a Phocian military leader who initiated and led the early phases of the Third Sacred War in ancient Greece.

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Label Occurrences
Philomelus canonical 2

Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Phocian general
ancient Greek military leader
associatedWithPlace Delphi
Phocis
causeOfConflict Amphictyonic fines imposed on Phocis
dispute over control of Delphi
commanded Phocian forces
conflictSide Phocian side in the Third Sacred War
countryOfCitizenship Phocis
deathCause killed in battle
deathManner died during the Third Sacred War
ethnicGroup Phocis
surface form: Phocian
historicalContext Classical Greece
surface form: classical Greece
knownFrom ancient Greek historical sources
legacy predecessor to later Phocian leaders such as Onomarchus
sparked a major pan-Hellenic conflict
militaryRank general
militaryStrategy employment of mercenary troops financed by temple wealth
notableFor seizing control of Delphi
using Delphic temple treasures to finance mercenaries
opponent Locrians
Thebes
other members of the Amphictyonic League
participatedIn Third Sacred War
religion ancient Greek religion
roleInConflict initiator of the Third Sacred War
leader of the early phases of the Third Sacred War
timePeriod 4th century BCE

How these facts were elicited

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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.
Input
Subject: Philomelus
Description of subject: Philomelus was a Phocian military leader who initiated and led the early phases of the Third Sacred War in ancient Greece.

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Third Sacred War commander Philomelus
Onomarchus relative Philomelus