Teucer
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Teucer is a famed archer of Greek mythology, half-brother of Ajax and a warrior in the Trojan War, who appears as a significant character in Sophocles’ tragedy "Ajax."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teucer canonical | 18 |
| Teucer (mythological founder) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4648803 — 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: Teucer Context triple: [Ajax (Sophocles), featuresCharacter, Teucer]
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A.
Hypsipyle
Hypsipyle is a figure in Greek mythology, the Lemnian princess and former queen who aided the Argonauts and is best known for her tragic and heroic role in various legends.
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B.
Antiope
Antiope is an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, often associated with Athens through her relationship with the hero Theseus.
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C.
Orthia
Orthia is an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis associated especially with a fierce, wild aspect of her worship, notably at the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia in Sparta.
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D.
Artemida
Artemida is a coastal town in East Attica, Greece, known for its beaches and proximity to Athens.
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E.
Ἀχαιμένης
Ἀχαιμένης is the Greek name for Achaemenes, the legendary founder and eponymous ancestor of the Achaemenid dynasty of ancient Persia.
- 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: Teucer Target entity description: Teucer is a famed archer of Greek mythology, half-brother of Ajax and a warrior in the Trojan War, who appears as a significant character in Sophocles’ tragedy "Ajax."
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A.
Hypsipyle
Hypsipyle is a figure in Greek mythology, the Lemnian princess and former queen who aided the Argonauts and is best known for her tragic and heroic role in various legends.
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B.
Antiope
Antiope is an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, often associated with Athens through her relationship with the hero Theseus.
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C.
Orthia
Orthia is an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis associated especially with a fierce, wild aspect of her worship, notably at the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia in Sparta.
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D.
Artemida
Artemida is a coastal town in East Attica, Greece, known for its beaches and proximity to Athens.
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E.
Ἀχαιμένης
Ἀχαιμένης is the Greek name for Achaemenes, the legendary founder and eponymous ancestor of the Achaemenid dynasty of ancient Persia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Trojan War hero
ⓘ
figure in Greek mythology ⓘ mythological archer ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Homer's Iliad
ⓘ
Sophocles' Ajax ⓘ
linked to:
Sophocles' tragedy Ajax
|
| associatedPlace | Cyprus ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Homer's Iliad
ⓘ
Salamis ⓘ
linked to:
Salamis Island
Telamonian shield ⓘ |
| brother |
Ajax the Great
ⓘ
linked to:
Ajax the Greater
|
| category |
Achaeans (Greek mythology)
ⓘ
linked to:
Achaeans
Characters in Sophocles' plays ⓘ Characters in the Iliad ⓘ |
| cultOrLegend | reputed founder of Salamis in Cyprus ⓘ |
| culture |
Ancient Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| defendsAgainst |
Agamemnon
ⓘ
Menelaus ⓘ |
| describedBy |
Homer
ⓘ
Sophocles ⓘ |
| enemy | Hector ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Greek ⓘ |
| father | Telamon ⓘ |
| fightingStyle | fights from behind Ajax's shield ⓘ |
| foughtAgainst | Trojans ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| homeCity |
Salamis
ⓘ
linked to:
Salamis Island
|
| languageOfSources | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryCharacterType | loyal brother ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Ajax the Great
ⓘ
linked to:
Ajax the Greater
|
| maternalGrandfather | Laomedon ⓘ |
| militaryRole | Achaean warrior ⓘ |
| mother | Hesione ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| notableDeed |
kills many Trojans with arrows
ⓘ
wounds Hector with an arrow ⓘ |
| notableFor | skill in archery ⓘ |
| occupation | archer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Trojan War ⓘ |
| paternalCousin | Achilles ⓘ |
| paternalUncle | Peleus ⓘ |
| postWarTradition |
banished from Salamis in some accounts
ⓘ
founds a colony in Cyprus in some accounts ⓘ |
| roleInWork | defender of Ajax's honor in Sophocles' Ajax ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Achaeans ⓘ |
| theme | family loyalty ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfMyth | Mythic age of the Trojan War ⓘ |
| weapon | bow and arrows ⓘ |
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: Teucer Description of subject: Teucer is a famed archer of Greek mythology, half-brother of Ajax and a warrior in the Trojan War, who appears as a significant character in Sophocles’ tragedy "Ajax."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ajax
subject linked to:
Ajax (mythological Greek hero)
subject linked to:
Ajax (mythological Greek hero)
subject linked to:
House of Aeacus
subject linked to:
Cypriot city of Salamis
linked to: Teucer
subject linked to:
Sophocles' tragedy Ajax