Ithaca, Greece
E18436
Ithaca, Greece is a small Ionian island off western Greece, traditionally identified as the legendary home of Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vathy, Ithaca | 2 |
| Ithaca (regional unit) | 1 |
| Ithaca in the Ionian Sea | 1 |
| Ithaca regional unit | 1 |
| Ithaca, Greece canonical | 1 |
| Lefki, Ithaca | 1 |
| Stavros, Ithaca | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T55896 — 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: Ithaca, Greece Context triple: [Ithaca, New York, United States, namedAfter, Ithaca, Greece]
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A.
Piraeus
Piraeus is the main port of Athens and one of the largest and busiest seaports in the Mediterranean, serving as a key hub for Greek and international maritime trade and passenger transport.
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B.
Livadia
Livadia is a resort settlement in Crimea best known as the site of the historic Livadia Palace, where the 1945 Yalta Conference was held.
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C.
Athens
Athens is Greece’s largest city and a historic center of ancient civilization, renowned as the birthplace of democracy and Western philosophy.
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D.
Crete
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, known for its rich ancient Minoan heritage, diverse landscapes, and significant role in Mediterranean history and culture.
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E.
Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia refers to the coastal areas of southern Italy and Sicily that were extensively colonized by ancient Greek settlers and became a major center of Hellenic culture in the Western Mediterranean.
- 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: Ithaca, Greece Target entity description: Ithaca, Greece is a small Ionian island off western Greece, traditionally identified as the legendary home of Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey.
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A.
Piraeus
Piraeus is the main port of Athens and one of the largest and busiest seaports in the Mediterranean, serving as a key hub for Greek and international maritime trade and passenger transport.
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B.
Livadia
Livadia is a resort settlement in Crimea best known as the site of the historic Livadia Palace, where the 1945 Yalta Conference was held.
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C.
Athens
Athens is Greece’s largest city and a historic center of ancient civilization, renowned as the birthplace of democracy and Western philosophy.
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D.
Crete
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, known for its rich ancient Minoan heritage, diverse landscapes, and significant role in Mediterranean history and culture.
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E.
Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia refers to the coastal areas of southern Italy and Sicily that were extensively colonized by ancient Greek settlers and became a major center of Hellenic culture in the Western Mediterranean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
island
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| administrativeRegion |
Ionian Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Ionian Islands administrative region
|
| area | approximately 96 square kilometres ⓘ |
| areaCode | +30 26740 ⓘ |
| capital |
Ithaca, Greece
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Vathy, Ithaca
|
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| connectedByFerryTo |
Astakos
ⓘ
Kefalonia ⓘ
surface form:
Cephalonia
Patras ⓘ |
| country | Greece ⓘ |
| economySector |
fishing
ⓘ
olive cultivation ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSite |
Pilgrims’ site at Aetos
ⓘ
ruins near Stavros ⓘ |
| hasBay |
Polis Bay
ⓘ
Vathy Bay ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn | Ionian Sea ⓘ |
| hasHighestPoint | Mount Neriton ⓘ |
| hasLargestSettlement |
Ithaca, Greece
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Vathy, Ithaca
|
| hasPort |
Vathy Bay
ⓘ
surface form:
Port of Vathy
|
| hasVillage |
Anogi
ⓘ
Frikes ⓘ Kioni ⓘ Ithaca, Greece self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Lefki, Ithaca
Perachori ⓘ Ithaca, Greece self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Stavros, Ithaca
|
| highestElevation | approximately 806 metres ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodOfContinuousInhabitation | since prehistoric times ⓘ |
| islandGroup | Heptanese ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with Homeric hero Odysseus
ⓘ
role in Homer’s Odyssey ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ionian Islands
ⓘ
Ionian Sea ⓘ |
| locatedOffCoastOf |
Western Greece
ⓘ
surface form:
western Greece
|
| nearbyIsland |
Kefalonia
ⓘ
surface form:
Cephalonia
|
| officialLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ionian Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Ionian Islands region
|
| population | approximately 3000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| postalCode | 28300 ⓘ |
| regionalUnit |
Ithaca, Greece
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ithaca regional unit
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| separatedFrom | Cephalonia by the Strait of Ithaca ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern European Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Eastern European Summer Time ⓘ |
| traditionalIdentificationAs | home of Odysseus ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion |
Kefalonia
ⓘ
surface form:
Cephalonia and Ithaca
|
| vehicleRegistrationCode | KE ⓘ |
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: Ithaca, Greece Description of subject: Ithaca, Greece is a small Ionian island off western Greece, traditionally identified as the legendary home of Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Vathy, Ithaca
this entity surface form:
Vathy, Ithaca
this entity surface form:
Stavros, Ithaca
this entity surface form:
Lefki, Ithaca
this entity surface form:
Ithaca regional unit
this entity surface form:
Ithaca (regional unit)
this entity surface form:
Ithaca in the Ionian Sea