Eugammon of Cyrene
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Eugammon of Cyrene was an ancient Greek poet, traditionally credited with composing the lost epic Telegony that continued the story of Homer’s Odyssey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eugammon of Cyrene canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4757394 — 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: Eugammon of Cyrene Context triple: [Telegony, traditionallyAttributedTo, Eugammon of Cyrene]
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A.
Monimus of Syracuse
Monimus of Syracuse was an ancient Greek Cynic philosopher known for his radical advocacy of asceticism and the rejection of conventional values and material wealth.
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B.
Aristeus of Corinth
Aristeus of Corinth was a 5th-century BC Corinthian general noted for leading Corinthian forces against Athens during the early stages of the Peloponnesian War.
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C.
Eupompus
Eupompus was an ancient Greek painter from Sicyon, traditionally regarded as the founder of the Sicyonic school of painting.
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D.
Philoxenus of Mabbug
Philoxenus of Mabbug was a prominent 5th–6th century Syriac Christian bishop and theologian known for his influential Miaphysite writings and biblical commentaries.
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E.
Hermotimus of Clazomenae
Hermotimus of Clazomenae was a semi-legendary pre-Socratic figure from Ionia, often cited in ancient sources as an early thinker associated with ideas about the soul’s separation from the body and later linked, perhaps apocryphally, to the philosophy of Anaxagoras.
- 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: Eugammon of Cyrene Target entity description: Eugammon of Cyrene was an ancient Greek poet, traditionally credited with composing the lost epic Telegony that continued the story of Homer’s Odyssey.
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A.
Monimus of Syracuse
Monimus of Syracuse was an ancient Greek Cynic philosopher known for his radical advocacy of asceticism and the rejection of conventional values and material wealth.
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B.
Aristeus of Corinth
Aristeus of Corinth was a 5th-century BC Corinthian general noted for leading Corinthian forces against Athens during the early stages of the Peloponnesian War.
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C.
Eupompus
Eupompus was an ancient Greek painter from Sicyon, traditionally regarded as the founder of the Sicyonic school of painting.
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D.
Philoxenus of Mabbug
Philoxenus of Mabbug was a prominent 5th–6th century Syriac Christian bishop and theologian known for his influential Miaphysite writings and biblical commentaries.
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E.
Hermotimus of Clazomenae
Hermotimus of Clazomenae was a semi-legendary pre-Socratic figure from Ionia, often cited in ancient sources as an early thinker associated with ideas about the soul’s separation from the body and later linked, perhaps apocryphally, to the philosophy of Anaxagoras.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek epic poem
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ancient Greek poet ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Epic Cycle
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Homeric tradition ⓘ |
| authorTraditionallyAttributed | Eugammon of Cyrene ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| floruit | 6th century BCE ⓘ |
| follows | Odyssey ⓘ |
| knownFor | continuing the story of the Odyssey ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | epic poetry ⓘ |
| notableWork | Telegony ⓘ |
| occupation | poet ⓘ |
| partOf |
Epic Cycle
ⓘ
Greek epic tradition ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Cyrene ⓘ |
| region | Cyrenaica ⓘ |
| status | lost work ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
ancient biographical notices
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modern classical scholarship ⓘ |
| traditionallyCreditedFor | composing the Telegony ⓘ |
| workAttributedBy | ancient tradition ⓘ |
| workStatus | lost works ⓘ |
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: Eugammon of Cyrene Description of subject: Eugammon of Cyrene was an ancient Greek poet, traditionally credited with composing the lost epic Telegony that continued the story of Homer’s Odyssey.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Eugammon of Cyrene