Homeric Hymns
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The Homeric Hymns are a collection of ancient Greek devotional poems celebrating various gods, traditionally attributed to Homer but actually composed by multiple anonymous poets.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Homeric Hymns canonical | 30 |
| Homeric Hymn to Hermes | 3 |
| Homeric Hymn to Demeter | 2 |
| Homeric Hymn 5 | 1 |
| Homeric Hymn to Apollo | 1 |
| Homeric Hymns (later tradition) | 1 |
| HomericHymns | 1 |
| Hymn to Apollo | 1 |
| Hymn to Hermes | 1 |
| The Homeric Hymns | 1 |
| corpus of Homeric Hymns | 1 |
| Ομηρικός Ύμνος στον Απόλλωνα | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T156956 — 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: Homeric Hymns Context triple: [Ancient Greek religion, hasSacredText, Homeric Hymns]
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A.
Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women is an ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that recounts the genealogies and heroic myths of mortal women who bore children to gods and heroes.
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B.
Homeric epics
The Homeric epics are ancient Greek epic poems, chiefly the Iliad and the Odyssey, traditionally attributed to Homer and foundational to Greek literature, mythology, and cultural identity.
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C.
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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D.
Orphic Mysteries
The Orphic Mysteries were an ancient Greek religious movement centered on the mythical figure Orpheus, emphasizing personal salvation, purification rites, and a dualistic view of the soul’s imprisonment in the body.
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E.
Hesiod's Works and Days
Hesiod's *Works and Days* is an ancient Greek didactic poem that offers moral instruction, agricultural advice, and mythological narratives, including the ages of man and the story of Prometheus and Pandora.
- 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: Homeric Hymns Target entity description: The Homeric Hymns are a collection of ancient Greek devotional poems celebrating various gods, traditionally attributed to Homer but actually composed by multiple anonymous poets.
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A.
Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women is an ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Hesiod, that recounts the genealogies and heroic myths of mortal women who bore children to gods and heroes.
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B.
Homeric epics
The Homeric epics are ancient Greek epic poems, chiefly the Iliad and the Odyssey, traditionally attributed to Homer and foundational to Greek literature, mythology, and cultural identity.
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C.
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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D.
Orphic Mysteries
The Orphic Mysteries were an ancient Greek religious movement centered on the mythical figure Orpheus, emphasizing personal salvation, purification rites, and a dualistic view of the soul’s imprisonment in the body.
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E.
Hesiod's Works and Days
Hesiod's *Works and Days* is an ancient Greek didactic poem that offers moral instruction, agricultural advice, and mythological narratives, including the ages of man and the story of Prometheus and Pandora.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek poetic work
ⓘ
collection of ancient Greek hymns ⓘ religious text ⓘ |
| actuallyComposedBy | multiple anonymous poets ⓘ |
| approximateNumberOfHymns | 33 ⓘ |
| associatedWithCulture |
Greek Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Greece
|
| containsHymnTo |
Aphrodite
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Apollo ⓘ Ares ⓘ Artemis ⓘ Demeter ⓘ Dionysus ⓘ Helios ⓘ Hephaestus ⓘ Hera ⓘ Hermes ⓘ Hestia ⓘ Pan ⓘ Poseidon ⓘ Selene ⓘ |
| devotionalFocus |
Greek gods
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Olympian deities ⓘ |
| earliestPossibleDate | 7th century BCE ⓘ |
| genre |
hexameter poetry
ⓘ
hymn ⓘ |
| influenced | later Greek religious poetry ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| laterTransmission | manuscript tradition ⓘ |
| latestPossibleDate | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
| literaryTradition |
Epic Cycle
ⓘ
surface form:
Epic Cycle tradition
|
| majorHymn |
Hymn to Aphrodite
ⓘ
Homeric Hymns self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hymn to Apollo
Hymn to Demeter ⓘ Homeric Hymns self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hymn to Hermes
|
| metricalForm | dactylic hexameter ⓘ |
| preservedIn | medieval manuscripts ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
invocation of deities
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religious praise ⓘ |
| scholarlyDebate |
authorship
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dating ⓘ original performance context ⓘ |
| styleSimilarTo | Homeric epics ⓘ |
| traditionallyAttributedTo | Homer ⓘ |
| transmission | oral tradition ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
rhapsodic recitation
ⓘ
ritual performance ⓘ |
| usesDialect |
Ancient Greek
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surface form:
Homeric Greek
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Homeric Hymns Description of subject: The Homeric Hymns are a collection of ancient Greek devotional poems celebrating various gods, traditionally attributed to Homer but actually composed by multiple anonymous poets.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Homeric Hymn to Hermes
this entity surface form:
HomericHymns
this entity surface form:
Homeric Hymn to Demeter
this entity surface form:
The Homeric Hymns
this entity surface form:
Hymn to Apollo
this entity surface form:
Hymn to Hermes
this entity surface form:
Homeric Hymn to Demeter
subject surface form:
Titans
this entity surface form:
Homeric Hymn to Hermes
this entity surface form:
corpus of Homeric Hymns
this entity surface form:
Homeric Hymn to Apollo
this entity surface form:
Homeric Hymn 5
this entity surface form:
Homeric Hymn to Hermes
this entity surface form:
Homeric Hymns (later tradition)