Apollo
E12942
Apollo is the Olympian god of the sun, music, prophecy, and healing in ancient Greek mythology.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apollo canonical | 332 |
| Apollo Lyceus | 3 |
| Apollo Pythios | 3 |
| Apollo Delios | 2 |
| Apollo Delian | 1 |
| Apollo Delphinios | 1 |
| Apollo Hekatos | 1 |
| Apollo Phoebus | 1 |
| Apollo Smintheus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T118863 — 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: Apollo Context triple: [Delphi, dedicatedTo, Apollo]
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A.
Artemis program
The Artemis program is NASA’s ongoing initiative to return humans to the Moon, establish a sustainable lunar presence, and prepare for future crewed missions to Mars.
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B.
Alcyone
Alcyone is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and often associated with the star cluster of the same name.
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C.
Epimetheus
Epimetheus is a figure in Greek mythology, a Titan known as the foolish brother of Prometheus and husband of Pandora, whose actions helped bring misfortune to humanity.
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D.
Apollo program
The Apollo program was NASA’s landmark human spaceflight initiative that successfully landed astronauts on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth during the 1960s and early 1970s.
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E.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the historic 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
- 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: Apollo Target entity description: Apollo is the Olympian god of the sun, music, prophecy, and healing in ancient Greek mythology.
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A.
Artemis program
The Artemis program is NASA’s ongoing initiative to return humans to the Moon, establish a sustainable lunar presence, and prepare for future crewed missions to Mars.
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B.
Alcyone
Alcyone is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and often associated with the star cluster of the same name.
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C.
Epimetheus
Epimetheus is a figure in Greek mythology, a Titan known as the foolish brother of Prometheus and husband of Pandora, whose actions helped bring misfortune to humanity.
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D.
Apollo program
The Apollo program was NASA’s landmark human spaceflight initiative that successfully landed astronauts on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth during the 1960s and early 1970s.
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E.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the historic 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon and safely returned them to Earth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (112)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek deity
ⓘ
Olympian god ⓘ mythological character ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Clarion
ⓘ
Delos ⓘ Delphi ⓘ Delphi ⓘ
surface form:
Delphi Oracle
Didyma ⓘ Python ⓘ
surface form:
Pytho
|
| associatedWith |
the Muses
ⓘ
surface form:
Muses
Nine Muses ⓘ |
| child |
Amphissus
ⓘ
Aristaeus ⓘ Asclepiades (sons of Asclepius, indirectly) ⓘ Asclepius ⓘ Ion ⓘ Linus ⓘ Miletus ⓘ Orpheus ⓘ Helios ⓘ
surface form:
Phaethon (son of Apollo)
Troilus ⓘ |
| culture |
Ancient Greek religion
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Greek mythology
|
| domain |
archery
ⓘ
colonization ⓘ healing ⓘ music ⓘ oracles ⓘ plague ⓘ poetry ⓘ prophecy ⓘ purification ⓘ sun ⓘ |
| epithet |
Apollo Agyieus
ⓘ
Apollo self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo Delphinios
Apollo self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo Hekatos
Apollo Karneios ⓘ Apollo Loxias ⓘ Apollo self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo Lyceus
Apollo Musagetes ⓘ Apollo Nomios ⓘ Apollo Paean ⓘ Apollo self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo Pythios
Apollo self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo Smintheus
Helios ⓘ
surface form:
Phoebus
Apollo Musagetes ⓘ
surface form:
Phoebus Apollo
|
| equivalentInRomanMythology | Apollo self-link ⓘ |
| festival |
Carneia
ⓘ
Daphnephoria ⓘ Pythian Games ⓘ Thargelia ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| lover |
Cassandra
ⓘ
Coronis ⓘ Cyrene ⓘ Daphne ⓘ Hyacinthus ⓘ Marpessa ⓘ |
| mainSanctuary |
Panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi
ⓘ
surface form:
Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Temple of Apollo ⓘ
surface form:
Temple of Apollo on Delos
|
| notableMyth |
death of Hyacinthus
ⓘ
guiding the Trojan arrows in the Iliad ⓘ love for Daphne and creation of the laurel ⓘ punishment of Niobe ⓘ slaying of Python at Delphi ⓘ |
| pantheon | Olympian gods ⓘ |
| parent |
Leto
ⓘ
Zeus ⓘ |
| parentageStatus | son of Zeus and Leto ⓘ |
| role |
god of archery
ⓘ
god of healing ⓘ god of light ⓘ god of music ⓘ god of plague ⓘ god of prophecy ⓘ leader of the Muses ⓘ patron of poets ⓘ patron of seers ⓘ protector of youths ⓘ |
| sacredAnimal |
dolphin
ⓘ
raven ⓘ swan ⓘ wolf ⓘ |
| sacredPlant | laurel ⓘ |
| sibling |
Aphrodite
ⓘ
Ares ⓘ Athena ⓘ Dionysus ⓘ Helen of Troy ⓘ Hephaestus ⓘ Heracles ⓘ Hermes ⓘ Minos ⓘ Persephone ⓘ |
| symbol |
bow and arrows
ⓘ
laurel wreath ⓘ lyre ⓘ python ⓘ raven ⓘ sun chariot ⓘ tripod ⓘ |
| twinSibling | Artemis ⓘ |
| twinStatus | twin brother of Artemis ⓘ |
| vehicle | chariot of the sun ⓘ |
| weapon | bow and arrows ⓘ |
| worshipCultCenter |
Claros
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Delos ⓘ Delphi ⓘ Didyma ⓘ |
| worshipRegion |
Asia Minor
ⓘ
Greece ⓘ Magna Graecia ⓘ Roman Empire ⓘ |
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: Apollo Description of subject: Apollo is the Olympian god of the sun, music, prophecy, and healing in ancient Greek mythology.
Referenced by (345)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sacred Way (Delphi)
subject surface form:
Oracle of Apollo at Delphi
subject surface form:
Oracle of Apollo at Delphi
this entity surface form:
Apollo Pythios
this entity surface form:
Apollo Pythios
subject surface form:
Temple of Apollo at Delphi
subject surface form:
Iliad