Amnisos
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Amnisos is an ancient Minoan harbor site on the north coast of Crete, known from Greek myth and archaeology as a cult center associated with the goddess Eileithyia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amnisos canonical | 2 |
| Amnisos in Crete | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4377675 — 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: Amnisos Context triple: [Eileithyia, worshipPlace, Amnisos]
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A.
Amphissus
Amphissus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known as a son of the god Apollo.
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B.
Potamos
Potamos is a small traditional village on the Greek island of Amorgos, known for its whitewashed Cycladic houses and hillside views over the Aegean Sea.
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C.
Anaxo
Anaxo is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a daughter of Alcmene.
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D.
Melesias
Melesias is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Laches," portrayed as a concerned Athenian father seeking guidance on the proper education of his son.
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E.
Potamoi
Potamoi are the river gods of Greek mythology, personifying individual rivers as divine sons of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
- 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: Amnisos Target entity description: Amnisos is an ancient Minoan harbor site on the north coast of Crete, known from Greek myth and archaeology as a cult center associated with the goddess Eileithyia.
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A.
Amphissus
Amphissus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known as a son of the god Apollo.
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B.
Potamos
Potamos is a small traditional village on the Greek island of Amorgos, known for its whitewashed Cycladic houses and hillside views over the Aegean Sea.
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C.
Anaxo
Anaxo is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a daughter of Alcmene.
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D.
Melesias
Melesias is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Laches," portrayed as a concerned Athenian father seeking guidance on the proper education of his son.
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E.
Potamoi
Potamoi are the river gods of Greek mythology, personifying individual rivers as divine sons of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Minoan settlement
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ancient harbor site ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ |
| associatedWith | sanctuary of Eileithyia ⓘ |
| associatedWithCulture | Minoan civilization ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity | Eileithyia ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion |
Minoan religion
ⓘ
ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| country | Greece ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalEvidenceOf |
Minoan cult activity
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harbor installations ⓘ |
| hasEvidenceOf |
Minoan architecture
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Minoan pottery ⓘ cult installations ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
cult center
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harbor ⓘ |
| hasStratigraphy | Minoan period layers ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfSite |
coastal settlement
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port town ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Greek mythology
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archaeology ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Crete ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Heraklion (modern city)
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linked to:
Heraklion
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| locatedOnCoastOf | north coast of Crete ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Greek mythic tradition ⓘ |
| partOf | Minoan trade network ⓘ |
| period | Bronze Age ⓘ |
| region | Aegean Sea ⓘ |
| usedFor |
maritime trade
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religious rituals ⓘ |
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: Amnisos Description of subject: Amnisos is an ancient Minoan harbor site on the north coast of Crete, known from Greek myth and archaeology as a cult center associated with the goddess Eileithyia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.