King of Phrygia
E1026250
The King of Phrygia is the legendary monarch of an ancient Anatolian kingdom, best known in myth for rulers like Gordias and his son Midas, who are associated with the Gordian Knot and the golden touch.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| King of Phrygia canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13195792 — 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: King of Phrygia Context triple: [Gordias, positionHeld, King of Phrygia]
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A.
King of Dardania
The King of Dardania is a mythological monarch of the ancient region of Dardania in the Troad, often associated with early Trojan royal lineage in Greek mythology.
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B.
King Iobates of Lycia
King Iobates of Lycia is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the Lycian ruler who sent the hero Bellerophon on perilous quests, including the slaying of the Chimera.
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C.
Ariarathes I of Cappadocia
Ariarathes I of Cappadocia was an early Hellenistic ruler who established the royal dynasty of Cappadocia in central Anatolia following the breakup of Alexander the Great’s empire.
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D.
Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia
Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia was a 1st-century BC king who founded the Ariobarzanid dynasty and ruled Cappadocia under the shifting influence of the Roman Republic.
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E.
King Pelasgus
King Pelasgus is a mythological ruler of Argos in Greek legend, best known from Aeschylus’ tragedy "The Suppliants" for deciding the fate of the Danaids who seek his protection.
- 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: King of Phrygia Target entity description: The King of Phrygia is the legendary monarch of an ancient Anatolian kingdom, best known in myth for rulers like Gordias and his son Midas, who are associated with the Gordian Knot and the golden touch.
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A.
King of Dardania
The King of Dardania is a mythological monarch of the ancient region of Dardania in the Troad, often associated with early Trojan royal lineage in Greek mythology.
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B.
King Iobates of Lycia
King Iobates of Lycia is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the Lycian ruler who sent the hero Bellerophon on perilous quests, including the slaying of the Chimera.
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C.
Ariarathes I of Cappadocia
Ariarathes I of Cappadocia was an early Hellenistic ruler who established the royal dynasty of Cappadocia in central Anatolia following the breakup of Alexander the Great’s empire.
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D.
Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia
Ariobarzanes I of Cappadocia was a 1st-century BC king who founded the Ariobarzanid dynasty and ruled Cappadocia under the shifting influence of the Roman Republic.
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E.
King Pelasgus
King Pelasgus is a mythological ruler of Argos in Greek legend, best known from Aeschylus’ tragedy "The Suppliants" for deciding the fate of the Danaids who seek his protection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legendary monarch title
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mythological role ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Greek heroic legends
ⓘ
classical literature ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gordian Knot
ⓘ
linked to:
Gordian Knot legend
Gordias ⓘ Midas ⓘ
linked to:
King Midas
Phrygian mythology ⓘ golden touch ⓘ |
| country | Phrygia ⓘ |
| culture | Phrygian culture ⓘ |
| governs | Phrygian people ⓘ |
| hasCapital | Gordium ⓘ |
| influenced | later European folklore about cursed wealth ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Greek storytelling traditions ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with knots and riddles
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association with miraculous transformations ⓘ legendary wealth ⓘ prophetic oracles ⓘ |
| language | Phrygian language ⓘ |
| linkedMyth |
Alexander the Great cutting the Gordian Knot
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linked to:
Gordian Knot legend
Midas receiving the golden touch from Dionysus ⓘ Midas’s donkey ears ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Anatolia
ⓘ
ancient Asia Minor ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
example of hubris and punishment
ⓘ
host to Greek heroes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Anatolian mythology
ⓘ
linked to:
Anatolian paganism
Greek mythology ⓘ |
| politicalType | monarchy ⓘ |
| predecessorState | Hittite Empire ⓘ |
| region | central Anatolia ⓘ |
| religion | Phrygian religion ⓘ |
| sourceType |
classical historiography
ⓘ
mythological tradition ⓘ |
| successorState | Lydian Kingdom ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
fate and destiny
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insoluble problems (via Gordian Knot) ⓘ royal power ⓘ wealth and greed ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Iron Age
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early 1st millennium BCE ⓘ |
| titleHolder |
Gordias
ⓘ
Midas ⓘ
linked to:
King Midas
various semi-legendary Phrygian rulers ⓘ |
| worshippedDeity |
Cybele
ⓘ
Sabazios ⓘ |
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: King of Phrygia Description of subject: The King of Phrygia is the legendary monarch of an ancient Anatolian kingdom, best known in myth for rulers like Gordias and his son Midas, who are associated with the Gordian Knot and the golden touch.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.