Demeter
E20158
Demeter is the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture, grain, and the fertility of the earth, central to the Eleusinian Mysteries and the myth of Persephone.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Demeter canonical | 115 |
| Demeter (Greek goddess) | 1 |
| Demeter Prosymna | 1 |
| Demeter in mythology | 1 |
| Demeter’s family | 1 |
| Greek goddess Demeter | 1 |
| female figure Ceres | 1 |
| goddess Ceres | 1 |
| Δήμητρα (Demeter) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156619 — 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: Demeter Context triple: [Zeus, sibling, Demeter]
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A.
Hera
Hera is the queen of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, revered as the goddess of marriage, women, and family.
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B.
Themis
Themis is the Greek Titaness and goddess of divine law, order, and prophetic wisdom, often associated with oracular sites such as Delphi.
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C.
Hesione
Hesione is a figure in Greek mythology, often identified as a mortal woman or princess associated with the Titan Prometheus in later mythic traditions.
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D.
Dionysus
Dionysus is the ancient Greek god of wine, ecstasy, theater, and ritual madness, often linked to mystery cults and ecstatic worship.
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E.
Zeus
Zeus is the king of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, ruling over the sky and thunder and presiding as the chief deity of the pantheon.
- 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: Demeter Target entity description: Demeter is the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture, grain, and the fertility of the earth, central to the Eleusinian Mysteries and the myth of Persephone.
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A.
Hera
Hera is the queen of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, revered as the goddess of marriage, women, and family.
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B.
Themis
Themis is the Greek Titaness and goddess of divine law, order, and prophetic wisdom, often associated with oracular sites such as Delphi.
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C.
Hesione
Hesione is a figure in Greek mythology, often identified as a mortal woman or princess associated with the Titan Prometheus in later mythic traditions.
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D.
Dionysus
Dionysus is the ancient Greek god of wine, ecstasy, theater, and ritual madness, often linked to mystery cults and ecstatic worship.
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E.
Zeus
Zeus is the king of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology, ruling over the sky and thunder and presiding as the chief deity of the pantheon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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: Demeter Description of subject: Demeter is the ancient Greek goddess of agriculture, grain, and the fertility of the earth, central to the Eleusinian Mysteries and the myth of Persephone.
Referenced by (123)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cronus
subject surface form:
Rhea