Cercyon
E176511
Cercyon is a figure from Greek mythology, a violent bandit and wrestler slain by the hero Theseus during his journey to Athens.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cercyon canonical | 6 |
| Cercyon as a brutal king | 1 |
| Cercyon as a ruthless wrestler | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1475600 — 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: Cercyon Context triple: [Theseus, defeated, Cercyon]
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A.
Dictys
Dictys is a fisherman and brother of King Polydectes in Greek mythology who discovers and shelters Perseus and his mother Danaë after they wash ashore.
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B.
Argeiphontes
Argeiphontes is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes, highlighting his role as the slayer of the many-eyed giant Argus Panoptes.
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C.
Steropes
Steropes is a one-eyed giant from Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes known for forging Zeus’s thunderbolts.
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D.
Benthesikyme
Benthesikyme is a minor sea goddess in Greek mythology, known primarily as a daughter of Poseidon.
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E.
Antaeus
Antaeus is a giant in Greek mythology, famed for drawing his strength from contact with the earth and being defeated by Heracles.
- 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: Cercyon Target entity description: Cercyon is a figure from Greek mythology, a violent bandit and wrestler slain by the hero Theseus during his journey to Athens.
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A.
Dictys
Dictys is a fisherman and brother of King Polydectes in Greek mythology who discovers and shelters Perseus and his mother Danaë after they wash ashore.
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B.
Argeiphontes
Argeiphontes is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes, highlighting his role as the slayer of the many-eyed giant Argus Panoptes.
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C.
Steropes
Steropes is a one-eyed giant from Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes known for forging Zeus’s thunderbolts.
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D.
Benthesikyme
Benthesikyme is a minor sea goddess in Greek mythology, known primarily as a daughter of Poseidon.
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E.
Antaeus
Antaeus is a giant in Greek mythology, famed for drawing his strength from contact with the earth and being defeated by Heracles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bandit
ⓘ
figure in Greek mythology ⓘ mythological person ⓘ wrestler ⓘ |
| activityLocation | road to Eleusis ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Eleusis ⓘ |
| challengeType | wrestling contest ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf | Theseus ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed in wrestling match ⓘ |
| defeatedBy | Theseus ⓘ |
| defeatMethod | thrown and killed by Theseus in wrestling ⓘ |
| describedAs |
a robber
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cruel ⓘ violent ⓘ |
| encounteredBy | Theseus on his way to Athens ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| killedBy | Theseus ⓘ |
| killedIn | Eleusis ⓘ |
| knownFor |
violent behavior
ⓘ
wrestling passersby to death ⓘ |
| methodOfKillingVictims | wrestling them to death ⓘ |
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| opponentOf | Theseus ⓘ |
| parentOf | Alope ⓘ |
| residesIn | Eleusis ⓘ |
| roleInMyth | one of the malefactors cleared away by Theseus on the road to Athens ⓘ |
| victimOf | Theseus' journey labors ⓘ |
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: Cercyon Description of subject: Cercyon is a figure from Greek mythology, a violent bandit and wrestler slain by the hero Theseus during his journey to Athens.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.