Labdacid
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Labdacid refers to the royal house of Thebes descended from King Labdacus, including figures such as Oedipus and Antigone in Greek mythology.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4917982 — 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: Labdacid Context triple: [Antigone, familyName, Labdacid]
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A.
Mothersbaugh
Mothersbaugh is the surname most prominently associated with American musician and composer Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the new wave band Devo.
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B.
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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C.
Stryama
Stryama is a river in Bulgaria that flows through the central part of the country before joining the Maritsa River.
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D.
Meads
Meads is a surname most notably associated with New Zealand rugby legend Colin Meads.
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E.
Asco
Asco is a small mountain village in the Haute-Corse department of Corsica, France, known as a gateway to the rugged Monte Cinto massif and popular hiking routes.
- 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: Labdacid Target entity description: Labdacid refers to the royal house of Thebes descended from King Labdacus, including figures such as Oedipus and Antigone in Greek mythology.
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A.
Mothersbaugh
Mothersbaugh is the surname most prominently associated with American musician and composer Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the new wave band Devo.
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B.
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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C.
Stryama
Stryama is a river in Bulgaria that flows through the central part of the country before joining the Maritsa River.
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D.
Meads
Meads is a surname most notably associated with New Zealand rugby legend Colin Meads.
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E.
Asco
Asco is a small mountain village in the Haute-Corse department of Corsica, France, known as a gateway to the rugged Monte Cinto massif and popular hiking routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family in Greek mythology
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mythological dynasty ⓘ royal house ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | Greek tragedy ⓘ |
| appearsInSource |
Aeschylus
NERFINISHED
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Euripides NERFINISHED ⓘ Sophocles NERFINISHED ⓘ later mythographic compilations ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralToWork |
Antigone (Sophocles)
NERFINISHED
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Oedipus Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ Oedipus at Colonus NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoenician Women NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Against Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ Thebaid (mythic cycle) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalRole | paradigm of tragic house in literature ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Antigone
NERFINISHED
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Eteocles NERFINISHED ⓘ Ismene NERFINISHED ⓘ Jocasta NERFINISHED ⓘ Labdacus NERFINISHED ⓘ Laius NERFINISHED ⓘ Oedipus NERFINISHED ⓘ Polynices NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Labdacus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent |
Antigone’s burial of Polynices against decree
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Oedipus killing Laius ⓘ Oedipus marrying Jocasta ⓘ civil war between Eteocles and Polynices ⓘ exposure of infant Oedipus ⓘ mutual killing of Eteocles and Polynices ⓘ |
| hasProgenitor |
Cadmus
NERFINISHED
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Labdacus NERFINISHED ⓘ Polydorus of Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
family curse
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tragic fate ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
conflict between divine and human law
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fate versus free will ⓘ incest ⓘ parricide ⓘ |
| influenced |
later tragic literature
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modern adaptations of Oedipus myth ⓘ |
| languageOfTradition | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalSetting | Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfTradition | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| relatedMythicCycle | Theban cycle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ruledOver | Kingdom of Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Labdacid Description of subject: Labdacid refers to the royal house of Thebes descended from King Labdacus, including figures such as Oedipus and Antigone in Greek mythology.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Labdacids
this entity surface form:
Labdacids