Deucalion
E18779
Deucalion is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the survivor of a great flood who, with his wife Pyrrha, repopulated the earth.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deucalion canonical | 17 |
| Deucalion and Pyrrha | 3 |
| Deucalionids | 2 |
| Deucalion (as a comparative flood hero) | 1 |
| Deucalion (son of Poseidon and Celaeno) | 1 |
| Deucalion (son of Prometheus) | 1 |
| Deucalion is son of Prometheus | 1 |
| Deucalion’s family line | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156563 — 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: Deucalion Context triple: [Prometheus, children, Deucalion]
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A.
Cronos
Cronos is a 1993 Mexican horror-fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro, noted for its inventive vampire mythology and atmospheric visual style.
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B.
Clymene
Clymene is a figure in Greek mythology, often depicted as an Oceanid or Titaness associated with light or fame and known as the wife or consort of the Titan Iapetus.
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C.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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D.
Menoetius
Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
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E.
Hesperides
The Hesperides are nymphs from Greek mythology who tend a blissful garden in the far west, often associated with golden apples and the evening star.
- 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: Deucalion Target entity description: Deucalion is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the survivor of a great flood who, with his wife Pyrrha, repopulated the earth.
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A.
Cronos
Cronos is a 1993 Mexican horror-fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro, noted for its inventive vampire mythology and atmospheric visual style.
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B.
Clymene
Clymene is a figure in Greek mythology, often depicted as an Oceanid or Titaness associated with light or fame and known as the wife or consort of the Titan Iapetus.
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C.
Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
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D.
Menoetius
Menoetius is a Titan in Greek mythology, known as a son of Iapetus and Clymene and the father of the hero Patroclus.
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E.
Hesperides
The Hesperides are nymphs from Greek mythology who tend a blissful garden in the far west, often associated with golden apples and the evening star.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Deucalion Description of subject: Deucalion is a figure in Greek mythology best known as the survivor of a great flood who, with his wife Pyrrha, repopulated the earth.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Deucalion is son of Prometheus
this entity surface form:
Deucalionids
this entity surface form:
Deucalionids
this entity surface form:
Deucalion and Pyrrha
subject surface form:
Stones of Gaia
this entity surface form:
Deucalion and Pyrrha
subject surface form:
Stones of Gaia
subject surface form:
Stones of Gaia
this entity surface form:
Deucalion and Pyrrha
this entity surface form:
Deucalion (as a comparative flood hero)
this entity surface form:
Deucalion (son of Prometheus)