Styx
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Styx is a primordial goddess and river of the Underworld in Greek mythology, famed as the sacred boundary over which the gods swore unbreakable oaths.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Styx canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1278563 — 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: Styx Context triple: [Oceanids, notableMember, Styx]
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A.
Styx
Styx is a small outer moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, located between the orbits of Charon and Nix in the Pluto system.
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B.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake is a British hard rock band formed by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale, best known for their 1980s hits like "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love."
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C.
O Street
O Street is a notable thoroughfare in Sacramento, California, known in part for being home to the Crocker Art Museum.
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D.
Milwaukee Deep
Milwaukee Deep is the deepest known point in the Atlantic Ocean, located within the Puerto Rico Trench.
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E.
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is a legendary American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for their blues-influenced hard rock sound and hits like "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion," and "Walk This Way."
- 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: Styx Target entity description: Styx is a primordial goddess and river of the Underworld in Greek mythology, famed as the sacred boundary over which the gods swore unbreakable oaths.
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A.
Styx
Styx is a small outer moon of the dwarf planet Pluto, located between the orbits of Charon and Nix in the Pluto system.
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B.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake is a British hard rock band formed by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale, best known for their 1980s hits like "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love."
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C.
O Street
O Street is a notable thoroughfare in Sacramento, California, known in part for being home to the Crocker Art Museum.
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D.
Milwaukee Deep
Milwaukee Deep is the deepest known point in the Atlantic Ocean, located within the Puerto Rico Trench.
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E.
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is a legendary American rock band formed in the 1970s, known for their blues-influenced hard rock sound and hits like "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion," and "Walk This Way."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek mythological figure
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goddess ⓘ mythological river ⓘ primordial deity ⓘ river deity ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
boundary between life and death
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oath ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Hades
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Underworld ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Zeus ⓘ |
| authorMention |
Hesiod
ⓘ
Homer ⓘ |
| category |
Chthonic deities
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Oceanids ⓘ Rivers of Hades ⓘ |
| child |
Bia
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Kratos ⓘ Nike ⓘ Zelos ⓘ
surface form:
Zelus
|
| consort |
Tethys
ⓘ
surface form:
Pallas (Titan)
|
| culture | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| domain | Underworld ⓘ |
| epithet |
river of oaths
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sacred river ⓘ |
| etymology | name often linked to Greek word for hatred or loathing ⓘ |
| function |
marks the inviolable boundary of oaths
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separates the world of the living from the dead in some traditions ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| isA |
daughter of Oceanus
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daughter of Tethys ⓘ personification of a river ⓘ river of the Underworld ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with inviolable oaths
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being the river over which the gods swore unbreakable oaths ⓘ being the sacred boundary of the Underworld ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Homer's Iliad
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surface form:
Iliad
Hesiod's Theogony ⓘ
surface form:
Theogony
|
| parent |
Oceanus
ⓘ
Tethys ⓘ |
| penaltyForBreakingOath |
god excluded from councils and feasts of the gods for years
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god lies breathless for a year ⓘ |
| property |
waters considered deadly to mortals
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waters used for divine oaths ⓘ |
| reward | oaths of the gods sworn by her waters ⓘ |
| rewardedBy | Zeus ⓘ |
| role | ally of Zeus in the Titanomachy ⓘ |
| swornBy | Olympian gods ⓘ |
| symbolism | hatred ⓘ |
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: Styx Description of subject: Styx is a primordial goddess and river of the Underworld in Greek mythology, famed as the sacred boundary over which the gods swore unbreakable oaths.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nike
subject surface form:
Cocytus