Ceres
E237063
Ceres is the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility, and motherly relationships.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ceres canonical | 42 |
| Ceres (Roman goddess) | 1 |
| Ceres (mythology) | 1 |
| Ceres-Liber-Libera | 1 |
| Cérès | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2112374 — 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: Ceres Context triple: [Roman religion, hasDeity, Ceres]
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A.
Ceres
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and a dwarf planet composed primarily of rock and ice.
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B.
Ceres
Ceres is a small city in Stanislaus County, California, known primarily as a residential and agricultural community in the Central Valley.
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C.
Vesta
Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth, home, and sacred fire, central to domestic and state religion in ancient Rome.
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D.
Pallas
Pallas is a figure from Greek mythology, often identified as a Titan associated with war and sometimes linked to Athena’s epithet “Pallas.”
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E.
Pallas
Pallas was a British Royal Navy frigate active during the American Revolutionary War, notably engaged in North Sea operations against French and American forces.
- 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: Ceres Target entity description: Ceres is the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility, and motherly relationships.
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A.
Ceres
Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and a dwarf planet composed primarily of rock and ice.
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B.
Ceres
Ceres is a small city in Stanislaus County, California, known primarily as a residential and agricultural community in the Central Valley.
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C.
Vesta
Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth, home, and sacred fire, central to domestic and state religion in ancient Rome.
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D.
Pallas
Pallas was a British Royal Navy frigate active during the American Revolutionary War, notably engaged in North Sea operations against French and American forces.
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E.
Pallas
Pallas is a figure from Greek mythology, often identified as a Titan associated with war and sometimes linked to Athena’s epithet “Pallas.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman goddess
ⓘ
agricultural deity ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
harvest
ⓘ
maternal love ⓘ nourishment ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Liber
ⓘ
Libera ⓘ
linked to:
Liber
|
| child |
Proserpina
ⓘ
linked to:
Persephone
|
| consort | Jupiter ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Roman religion ⓘ |
| domain |
agriculture
ⓘ
fertility ⓘ grain crops ⓘ motherly relationships ⓘ |
| equivalentOf |
Greek goddess Demeter
ⓘ
linked to:
Demeter
|
| etymologyRelatedTo | Latin word "crescere" (to grow) ⓘ |
| festival |
Ambarvalia
ⓘ
Cerealia ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| iconography |
depicted holding sheaves of grain
ⓘ
depicted riding in a chariot drawn by snakes ⓘ depicted with a veil and crown of grain ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
Roman agricultural festivals
ⓘ
later personifications of abundance ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| linkedMyth |
abduction of Proserpina by Pluto
ⓘ
linked to:
abduction of Persephone
|
| majorTemple |
Temple of Ceres, Liber and Libera on the Aventine Hill
ⓘ
linked to:
Temple of Ceres
|
| memberOf | Dii Consentes ⓘ |
| namesakeOf |
dwarf planet Ceres
ⓘ
linked to:
Ceres
the word "cereal" ⓘ |
| parent |
Proserpina
ⓘ
linked to:
Persephone
|
| patronOf |
Roman plebeians
ⓘ
farmers ⓘ fertility of the land ⓘ |
| religiousFunction |
overseer of laws protecting plebeian rights
ⓘ
regulation of rites concerning grain supply ⓘ |
| roleInMythology |
goddess who ensures growth of crops
ⓘ
protector of marriage and motherhood ⓘ |
| sacredAnimal | pig ⓘ |
| sacredColor | golden yellow ⓘ |
| sacredPlant |
barley
ⓘ
wheat ⓘ |
| symbol |
cornucopia
ⓘ
poppy ⓘ sheaf of wheat ⓘ torch ⓘ |
| worshipCenter | Rome ⓘ |
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: Ceres Description of subject: Ceres is the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility, and motherly relationships.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ceres
linked to: Ceres
subject linked to:
Roman goddess Juno
subject linked to:
Pomona (Roman goddess of fruit trees)
linked to: Ceres
subject linked to:
Ops, Roman goddess of agricultural plenty
subject linked to:
Ops, Roman goddess of agricultural plenty