Polycaste
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Polycaste is a minor figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a daughter of King Nestor of Pylos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polycaste canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4757517 — 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: Polycaste Context triple: [Nestor, child, Polycaste]
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A.
Polygyros
Polygyros is a town in northern Greece that serves as the capital of the Chalkidiki regional unit in Central Macedonia.
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B.
Polyxo
Polyxo is a figure from Greek mythology known as one of the daughters of the Titan Atlas.
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C.
Pola
Pola is a historic coastal city on the Istrian Peninsula, known today as Pula in Croatia and famed for its well-preserved Roman amphitheater.
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D.
Pauliceia Desvairada
Pauliceia Desvairada is a landmark modernist poetry collection by Mário de Andrade that helped inaugurate Brazil’s literary avant-garde in the early 20th century.
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E.
Spyridium
Spyridium is a genus of flowering shrubs native mainly to Australia, known for their small, clustered flowers and often woolly or hairy foliage.
- 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: Polycaste Target entity description: Polycaste is a minor figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a daughter of King Nestor of Pylos.
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A.
Polygyros
Polygyros is a town in northern Greece that serves as the capital of the Chalkidiki regional unit in Central Macedonia.
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B.
Polyxo
Polyxo is a figure from Greek mythology known as one of the daughters of the Titan Atlas.
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C.
Pola
Pola is a historic coastal city on the Istrian Peninsula, known today as Pula in Croatia and famed for its well-preserved Roman amphitheater.
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D.
Divinidylle
Divinidylle is a 2007 French pop album by singer Vanessa Paradis that marked her successful musical comeback and featured the hit single "Divine Idylle."
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E.
Pauliceia Desvairada
Pauliceia Desvairada is a landmark modernist poetry collection by Mário de Andrade that helped inaugurate Brazil’s literary avant-garde in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mythological Greek woman ⓘ |
| associatedPeople |
Nestor
ⓘ
Telemachus ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Pylos ⓘ |
| category |
Characters in Greek mythology
ⓘ
Mythological princesses ⓘ Women in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| child |
Italus
ⓘ
Persepolis (daughter of Telemachus) ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| era | Mythic age of the Trojan War cycle ⓘ |
| father | Nestor ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfSources | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca (attributed)
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Scholia on Homer’s Odyssey ⓘ
linked to:
Iliad scholia
|
| mother |
Anaxibia
ⓘ
Eurydice of Pylos ⓘ |
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| notableAction | is said to have bathed and anointed Telemachus at Pylos in some later accounts ⓘ |
| relative |
Odysseus
ⓘ
Penelope ⓘ |
| roleInMyth | daughter of Nestor who marries Telemachus in later tradition ⓘ |
| sibling |
Antilochus
ⓘ
Aretus ⓘ Echephron ⓘ Epicaste (daughter of Nestor) ⓘ Eurydice (daughter of Nestor) ⓘ
linked to:
Eurydice of Pylos
Peisistratus ⓘ
linked to:
Peisistratos
Perseus (son of Nestor) ⓘ Pisidice ⓘ Stratius ⓘ Thrasymedes ⓘ |
| spouse | Telemachus ⓘ |
| title | princess of Pylos ⓘ |
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: Polycaste Description of subject: Polycaste is a minor figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a daughter of King Nestor of Pylos.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.