Echemus
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Echemus is a figure from Greek mythology known as the Arcadian king who defeated and killed Hyllus, the son of Heracles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Echemus canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5106788 — 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: Echemus Context triple: [Hyllus, killedBy, Echemus]
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A.
Neraudia
Neraudia is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to Hawaii and known for its often rare and endemic shrub species.
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B.
Caesonia
Caesonia is a Roman cognomen (family name) used by women of the gens Atia in ancient Rome.
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C.
Chersina
Chersina is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae, best known for the South African species Chersina angulata, commonly called the angulate tortoise.
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D.
Physcus
Physcus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of Amphictyon.
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E.
Salamina
Salamina is the main town and administrative center of Salamis Island in Greece, known for its coastal setting and role as the island’s primary hub of local life and services.
- 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: Echemus Target entity description: Echemus is a figure from Greek mythology known as the Arcadian king who defeated and killed Hyllus, the son of Heracles.
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A.
Neraudia
Neraudia is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to Hawaii and known for its often rare and endemic shrub species.
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B.
Caesonia
Caesonia is a Roman cognomen (family name) used by women of the gens Atia in ancient Rome.
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C.
Chersina
Chersina is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae, best known for the South African species Chersina angulata, commonly called the angulate tortoise.
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D.
Physcus
Physcus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of Amphictyon.
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E.
Salamina
Salamina is the main town and administrative center of Salamis Island in Greece, known for its coastal setting and role as the island’s primary hub of local life and services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mythological Greek king ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Tegea ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Arcadia ⓘ |
| category |
Arcadian mythology
ⓘ
Characters in Greek mythology associated with Heracles ⓘ Kings in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| causeOfDeathOf | Hyllus ⓘ |
| combatType | single combat with Hyllus ⓘ |
| country | Arcadia ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| defeated | Hyllus ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Arcadian
ⓘ
linked to:
Arcadia (in many accounts)
|
| fatherOf | Laodocus ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| killed | Hyllus ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Apollodorus, Bibliotheca
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
Pausanias, Description of Greece ⓘ
linked to:
Pausanias’ Description of Greece
|
| mythologicalEra | generation after Heracles ⓘ |
| notableFor |
defeating Hyllus in single combat
ⓘ
protecting the Peloponnese from the return of the Heracleidae ⓘ |
| opponentOf |
Hyllus
ⓘ
the Heracleidae ⓘ
linked to:
Heracleidae
|
| participatedIn | war of the Peloponnesians against the Heracleidae ⓘ |
| residence | Tegea ⓘ |
| role | champion of the Peloponnesians ⓘ |
| spouse |
Timandra
ⓘ
daughter of Tyndareus ⓘ sister of Helen of Troy ⓘ |
| title | king of Arcadia ⓘ |
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: Echemus Description of subject: Echemus is a figure from Greek mythology known as the Arcadian king who defeated and killed Hyllus, the son of Heracles.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.