Old Servant of Creusa
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Old Servant of Creusa is a minor character in Euripides’ tragedy "Ion," serving as a loyal attendant who helps reveal and navigate the hidden truths surrounding Creusa and her son.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Servant of Creusa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13404400 — 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: Old Servant of Creusa Context triple: [Ion (play), includesCharacter, Old Servant of Creusa]
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A.
The Woman from Sicyon
The Woman from Sicyon is a lost ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, known only through later references and fragments.
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B.
Pomesanians
The Pomesanians were an Old Prussian Baltic tribe that inhabited the region of Pomesania in what is now northern Poland during the Middle Ages.
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C.
Phineus and the Harpies
Phineus and the Harpies is a famous episode from Greek mythology in which the Argonauts rescue the blind seer Phineus from the torment of monstrous winged spirits who continually defile his food.
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D.
Women of Troy
Women of Troy is the nickname for the University of Southern California’s women’s athletic teams, most prominently its women’s basketball program.
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E.
Aetia
Aetia is a major didactic and elegiac poem by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus that explores the origins and myths behind various customs, cities, and religious practices in the Greek 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: Old Servant of Creusa Target entity description: Old Servant of Creusa is a minor character in Euripides’ tragedy "Ion," serving as a loyal attendant who helps reveal and navigate the hidden truths surrounding Creusa and her son.
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A.
The Woman from Sicyon
The Woman from Sicyon is a lost ancient Greek comedy by the playwright Diphilus, known only through later references and fragments.
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B.
Pomesanians
The Pomesanians were an Old Prussian Baltic tribe that inhabited the region of Pomesania in what is now northern Poland during the Middle Ages.
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C.
Phineus and the Harpies
Phineus and the Harpies is a famous episode from Greek mythology in which the Argonauts rescue the blind seer Phineus from the torment of monstrous winged spirits who continually defile his food.
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D.
Women of Troy
Women of Troy is the nickname for the University of Southern California’s women’s athletic teams, most prominently its women’s basketball program.
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E.
Aetia
Aetia is a major didactic and elegiac poem by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus that explores the origins and myths behind various customs, cities, and religious practices in the Greek world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
attendant
ⓘ
dramatic character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ servant ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Euripides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Creusa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ion (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterType | supporting character ⓘ |
| createdBy | Euripides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Creusa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | mythological Athens and Delphi ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Ancient Greek tragedy ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Creusa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical drama ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
helps reveal hidden truths about Creusa
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helps reveal hidden truths about Ion ⓘ mediates between Creusa and Ion ⓘ supports recognition of mother and son ⓘ |
| partOf | dramatis personae of Ion ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | minor character ⓘ |
| servesAs | loyal attendant ⓘ |
| setting | Delphi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeOfCreation | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| workGenre | tragedy ⓘ |
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: Old Servant of Creusa Description of subject: Old Servant of Creusa is a minor character in Euripides’ tragedy "Ion," serving as a loyal attendant who helps reveal and navigate the hidden truths surrounding Creusa and her son.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ion (play)