Pygmalion of Cyprus

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Pygmalion of Cyprus is a mythological Cypriot king and sculptor in Greek mythology best known for falling in love with a statue he carved, which was then brought to life by the goddess Aphrodite.

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Label	Occurrences
Pygmalion	4
Pygmalion (mythological figure)	1
Pygmalion of Cyprus canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21761834 — 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: Pygmalion of Cyprus
Context triple: [Cinyras, grandfather, Pygmalion of Cyprus]

A. Pygmalion and Galatea
Pygmalion and Galatea is a celebrated 18th-century marble sculpture by Étienne-Maurice Falconet depicting the mythological moment when the sculptor Pygmalion’s statue comes to life.
B. Pygmalion and Galatea
Pygmalion and Galatea is a famous 19th-century painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicting the mythological moment when the sculptor Pygmalion’s statue comes to life.
C. Pygmalion of Tyre
Pygmalion of Tyre was a legendary king of Tyre in classical tradition, chiefly known as the cruel brother of Queen Dido whose greed and treachery drove her to flee and found Carthage.
D. Pygmalion
Pygmalion is a celebrated stage play by George Bernard Shaw that satirizes class distinctions through the transformation of a Cockney flower girl into a refined lady under the tutelage of a phonetics professor.
E. Pygmalion
Pygmalion is a legendary king of Tyre in classical tradition, often associated with the story of Queen Dido (Elissa) and her flight to found Carthage.
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: Pygmalion of Cyprus
Target entity description: Pygmalion of Cyprus is a mythological Cypriot king and sculptor in Greek mythology best known for falling in love with a statue he carved, which was then brought to life by the goddess Aphrodite.

A. Pygmalion and Galatea
Pygmalion and Galatea is a famous 19th-century painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicting the mythological moment when the sculptor Pygmalion’s statue comes to life.
B. Pygmalion and Galatea
Pygmalion and Galatea is a celebrated 18th-century marble sculpture by Étienne-Maurice Falconet depicting the mythological moment when the sculptor Pygmalion’s statue comes to life.
C. Pygmalion of Tyre
Pygmalion of Tyre was a legendary king of Tyre in classical tradition, chiefly known as the cruel brother of Queen Dido whose greed and treachery drove her to flee and found Carthage.
D. Pygmalion
Pygmalion is a celebrated stage play by George Bernard Shaw that satirizes class distinctions through the transformation of a Cockney flower girl into a refined lady under the tutelage of a phonetics professor.
E. Pygmalion
Pygmalion is a legendary king of Tyre in classical tradition, often associated with the story of Queen Dido (Elissa) and her flight to found Carthage.
F. None of above. chosen