Hesiod
E18789
Hesiod was an early ancient Greek poet, often considered a founder of Greek didactic poetry, known for works such as the Theogony and Works and Days that shaped Greek mythology and moral thought.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hesiod canonical | 75 |
| Hesiod of Ascra | 1 |
| Works and Days by Hesiod | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156771 — 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: Hesiod Context triple: [Hesiod's Theogony, author, Hesiod]
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A.
Anacreon
Anacreon was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his songs celebrating love, wine, and revelry.
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B.
Hesiod's Theogony
Hesiod's Theogony is an ancient Greek didactic poem that systematically recounts the origins and genealogies of the gods, forming a foundational work of Greek mythology.
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C.
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
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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.
Heraclitus
Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher best known for his doctrine that reality is in constant flux and for emphasizing the unity of opposites.
- 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: Hesiod Target entity description: Hesiod was an early ancient Greek poet, often considered a founder of Greek didactic poetry, known for works such as the Theogony and Works and Days that shaped Greek mythology and moral thought.
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A.
Anacreon
Anacreon was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his songs celebrating love, wine, and revelry.
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B.
Hesiod's Theogony
Hesiod's Theogony is an ancient Greek didactic poem that systematically recounts the origins and genealogies of the gods, forming a foundational work of Greek mythology.
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C.
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
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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.
Heraclitus
Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher best known for his doctrine that reality is in constant flux and for emphasizing the unity of opposites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek poet
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didactic poet ⓘ mythographer ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Locris
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surface form:
Ascra
Boeotia ⓘ Mount Helicon ⓘ |
| comparedWith | Homer ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf | Homer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| describedAs | founder of Greek didactic poetry ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
agricultural instruction
ⓘ
ethics ⓘ mythology ⓘ |
| floruit |
7th century BC
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8th century BC ⓘ |
| genre |
didactic poetry
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epic poetry ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Pandora myth
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ages of man ⓘ divine justice ⓘ human-divine relations ⓘ proper work and farming ⓘ |
| influenced |
Aeschylus
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Euripides ⓘ Greek cosmology ⓘ Greek didactic literature ⓘ Greek moral thought ⓘ Greek religion ⓘ Pindar ⓘ Plato ⓘ Roman poets ⓘ Sophocles ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Catalogue of Women
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Shield of Heracles ⓘ Hesiod's Theogony ⓘ
surface form:
Theogony
Hesiod's Works and Days ⓘ
surface form:
Works and Days
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| occupation | poet ⓘ |
| sourceFor |
Greek cosmogony
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Hesiod's Theogony ⓘ
surface form:
Greek theogony
early Greek ethics ⓘ |
| tradition | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| workFocus |
genealogy of the gods
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human suffering and toil ⓘ justice and hard work ⓘ origins of the cosmos ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Hesiod Description of subject: Hesiod was an early ancient Greek poet, often considered a founder of Greek didactic poetry, known for works such as the Theogony and Works and Days that shaped Greek mythology and moral thought.
Referenced by (77)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Works and Days by Hesiod
subject surface form:
Works and Days
subject surface form:
Works and Days
this entity surface form:
Hesiod of Ascra