Nemesis
E144401
Nemesis is the Greek goddess of retribution and divine justice, known for punishing hubris and restoring moral balance.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nemesis canonical | 19 |
| Fury Alecto | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1212393 — 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: Nemesis Context triple: [Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, titleReference, Nemesis]
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A.
Chimera
Chimera is a monstrous fire-breathing creature from Greek mythology, typically depicted as a hybrid with parts of a lion, goat, and serpent.
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B.
Taphus
Taphus was the original name of the town that later became Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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C.
Typhoeus
Typhoeus is a monstrous serpentine giant from Greek mythology, often depicted as a fearsome adversary of Zeus and a symbol of chaotic natural forces.
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D.
Hades
Hades is the ancient Greek god of the underworld and the dead, ruling over the realm of the afterlife.
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E.
Crius
Crius is one of the twelve primordial Titans of Greek mythology, associated with the constellations and the cosmic order preceding the Olympian gods.
- 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: Nemesis Target entity description: Nemesis is the Greek goddess of retribution and divine justice, known for punishing hubris and restoring moral balance.
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A.
Chimera
Chimera is a monstrous fire-breathing creature from Greek mythology, typically depicted as a hybrid with parts of a lion, goat, and serpent.
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B.
Taphus
Taphus was the original name of the town that later became Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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C.
Typhoeus
Typhoeus is a monstrous serpentine giant from Greek mythology, often depicted as a fearsome adversary of Zeus and a symbol of chaotic natural forces.
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D.
Hades
Hades is the ancient Greek god of the underworld and the dead, ruling over the realm of the afterlife.
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E.
Crius
Crius is one of the twelve primordial Titans of Greek mythology, associated with the constellations and the cosmic order preceding the Olympian gods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek goddess
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deity ⓘ personification ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Greek tragedy
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works of Hesiod ⓘ works of Ovid ⓘ works of Pausanias ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Aidos
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Aphrodite ⓘ Dike ⓘ Helen of Troy ⓘ Nyx ⓘ Orestes ⓘ Themis ⓘ Tyche ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| cultTitle |
Adrastea
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Adrasteia ⓘ Rhamnousia ⓘ Rhamnusia ⓘ |
| culture | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| depictedWith |
bridle
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griffin ⓘ measuring rod ⓘ scales ⓘ sword ⓘ wheel ⓘ |
| domain |
divine justice
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fortune ⓘ retribution ⓘ vengeance ⓘ |
| etymology | name derived from Greek verb "nemein" meaning "to give what is due" ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| greekName | Νέμεσις ⓘ |
| hasVariantTraditions | parentage varies in different sources ⓘ |
| iconographicFeature | often winged ⓘ |
| influencedConcept |
later idea of poetic justice
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modern term "nemesis" meaning implacable opponent or agent of downfall ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distributing fortune according to merit
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punishing hubris ⓘ restoring moral balance ⓘ |
| latinName | Nemesis self-link ⓘ |
| majorSanctuary | Rhamnous in Attica ⓘ |
| mythologicalEra |
Archaic Greece
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Classical Greece ⓘ |
| opposes |
arrogance toward the gods
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excessive good fortune ⓘ hubris ⓘ |
| parents |
Nyx
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Oceanus ⓘ Zeus ⓘ |
| role |
avenger of crimes
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dispenser of due share ⓘ guardian of cosmic balance ⓘ punisher of excessive pride ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
divine balance
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equity ⓘ indignation against injustice ⓘ retribution ⓘ righteous anger ⓘ |
| worshipPlace | Rhamnous ⓘ |
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: Nemesis Description of subject: Nemesis is the Greek goddess of retribution and divine justice, known for punishing hubris and restoring moral balance.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eris
this entity surface form:
Fury Alecto