trident of Poseidon
E481173
The trident of Poseidon is the powerful three-pronged spear wielded by the Greek god of the sea, symbolizing his dominion over oceans, storms, and earthquakes.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trident of Atlantis | 1 |
| Trident of Poseidon | 1 |
| trident of Poseidon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4944059 — 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: trident of Poseidon Context triple: [Arges, createdObject, trident of Poseidon]
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A.
bow of Heracles
The bow of Heracles is the legendary weapon in Greek mythology whose possession is crucial for the Greeks’ victory in the Trojan War and which becomes the central object of contention in Sophocles’ tragedy "Philoctetes."
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B.
The Trident
The Trident is a major river system in the fictional continent of Westeros, famed as the site of several pivotal battles in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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C.
The Trident
The Trident is a local area or housing estate within the Palacefields district, likely forming one of its distinct residential neighbourhoods.
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D.
bow of Odysseus
The bow of Odysseus is the legendary, uniquely powerful weapon in Greek mythology that only Odysseus can string and use, serving as the decisive test of identity and kingship in the Odyssey.
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E.
Trident
Trident is Microsoft's proprietary web browser layout engine that powered Internet Explorer for rendering HTML and web content.
- 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: trident of Poseidon Target entity description: The trident of Poseidon is the powerful three-pronged spear wielded by the Greek god of the sea, symbolizing his dominion over oceans, storms, and earthquakes.
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A.
bow of Heracles
The bow of Heracles is the legendary weapon in Greek mythology whose possession is crucial for the Greeks’ victory in the Trojan War and which becomes the central object of contention in Sophocles’ tragedy "Philoctetes."
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B.
The Trident
The Trident is a major river system in the fictional continent of Westeros, famed as the site of several pivotal battles in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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C.
The Trident
The Trident is a local area or housing estate within the Palacefields district, likely forming one of its distinct residential neighbourhoods.
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D.
bow of Odysseus
The bow of Odysseus is the legendary, uniquely powerful weapon in Greek mythology that only Odysseus can string and use, serving as the decisive test of identity and kingship in the Odyssey.
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E.
Trident
Trident is Microsoft's proprietary web browser layout engine that powered Internet Explorer for rendering HTML and web content.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
divine artifact
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mythological weapon ⓘ symbol ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Homeric tradition
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works of classical Greek literature ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity | Poseidon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPantheon | Greek mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | Ancient Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedIn |
Greek sculpture
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Greek vase painting ⓘ ancient Greek art ⓘ |
| etymologyRelatedTo |
Greek odous (tooth)
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Greek tria (three) ⓘ Latin tridentem ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
earthquakes
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oceans ⓘ sea ⓘ storms ⓘ waters ⓘ |
| hasPart | three prongs ⓘ |
| iconographicAttributeOf | Poseidon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedSymbol |
Neptune’s trident
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fantasy depictions of sea gods ⓘ modern maritime emblems ⓘ naval insignia ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| numberOfProngs | 3 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
earthquakes
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horses ⓘ sea creatures ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
control over oceans
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destruction ⓘ dominion over the sea ⓘ fertility of the sea ⓘ maritime power ⓘ power over earthquakes ⓘ power over storms ⓘ sovereignty ⓘ |
| usedFor |
calming seas
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causing earthquakes ⓘ controlling water ⓘ creating storms ⓘ shattering objects ⓘ striking the earth ⓘ summoning waves ⓘ |
| weaponType |
polearm
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spear ⓘ |
| wieldedBy | Poseidon 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: trident of Poseidon Description of subject: The trident of Poseidon is the powerful three-pronged spear wielded by the Greek god of the sea, symbolizing his dominion over oceans, storms, and earthquakes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Trident of Poseidon
this entity surface form:
Trident of Atlantis