Philocles
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Philocles was an Athenian naval commander during the late Peloponnesian War, noted for his role in the decisive defeat at Aegospotami.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philocles canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3934884 — 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: Philocles Context triple: [Battle of Aegospotami, commander, Philocles]
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A.
Palamedes
Palamedes is a 1625 Dutch tragedy by Joost van den Vondel that allegorically critiques political and religious injustice in the Dutch Republic.
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B.
Tlepolemus
Tlepolemus is a figure in Greek mythology, known as a son of Heracles who became a leader of Rhodian forces in the Trojan War.
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C.
Phrygilus
Phrygilus is a genus of South American finch-like birds commonly known as sierra-finches, typically found in Andean and Patagonian habitats.
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D.
Neocles
Neocles was an Athenian of the late 6th century BC, best known as the father of the prominent statesman and general Themistocles.
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E.
Telephus
Telephus is a hero in Greek mythology, a son of Heracles who became king of Mysia and played a crucial role in the events leading up to the Trojan War.
- 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: Philocles Target entity description: Philocles was an Athenian naval commander during the late Peloponnesian War, noted for his role in the decisive defeat at Aegospotami.
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A.
Palamedes
Palamedes is a 1625 Dutch tragedy by Joost van den Vondel that allegorically critiques political and religious injustice in the Dutch Republic.
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B.
Tlepolemus
Tlepolemus is a figure in Greek mythology, known as a son of Heracles who became a leader of Rhodian forces in the Trojan War.
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C.
Phrygilus
Phrygilus is a genus of South American finch-like birds commonly known as sierra-finches, typically found in Andean and Patagonian habitats.
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D.
Neocles
Neocles was an Athenian of the late 6th century BC, best known as the father of the prominent statesman and general Themistocles.
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E.
Telephus
Telephus is a hero in Greek mythology, a son of Heracles who became king of Mysia and played a crucial role in the events leading up to the Trojan War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Athenian
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ancient Greek person ⓘ military leader ⓘ naval commander ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Battle of Aegospotami ⓘ |
| citizenship | Athens ⓘ |
| commandRole |
Athenian fleet commander
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naval commander at Aegospotami ⓘ |
| conflict | war between Athens and Sparta ⓘ |
| culture | Classical Greek ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | Athenian commander defeated at Aegospotami ⓘ |
| knownFor | defeat at Aegospotami ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Athenian navy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commanding Athenian ships at Aegospotami
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role in the battle of Aegospotami ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Lysander
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Sparta ⓘ |
| outcomeOfKeyBattle | decisive defeat of the Athenian fleet ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Peloponnesian War
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late Peloponnesian War ⓘ
linked to:
Ionian War
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| placeOfActivity |
Aegean Sea
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Hellespont ⓘ
linked to:
Dardanelles
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| sideInConflict | Athens ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
5th century BC
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late 5th century BC ⓘ |
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: Philocles Description of subject: Philocles was an Athenian naval commander during the late Peloponnesian War, noted for his role in the decisive defeat at Aegospotami.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.