Meleager
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Meleager is a hero in Greek mythology, best known as the leader of the Calydonian Boar Hunt and for his tragic death linked to a fateful burning log.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meleager canonical | 40 |
| MeleagerUncles | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5175965 — 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: Meleager Context triple: [Deianira, sibling, Meleager]
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A.
Meleager
Meleager was a short-reigning Hellenistic king of Egypt from the Ptolemaic dynasty, briefly ruling after the death of his brother Ptolemy Keraunos in the early 3rd century BCE.
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B.
Meleager of Gadara
Meleager of Gadara was a Hellenistic Greek poet best known for compiling one of the earliest anthologies of epigrams, which later formed a core part of the Greek Anthology.
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C.
Neocles
Neocles was an Athenian of the late 6th century BC, best known as the father of the prominent statesman and general Themistocles.
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D.
Eurytus
Eurytus is a famed archer-king in Greek mythology, known as the ruler of Oechalia and a rival of Heracles in archery and in love.
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E.
Alcathous
Alcathous is the ancient acropolis of the Greek city of Megara, serving as its fortified citadel and religious center.
- 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: Meleager Target entity description: Meleager is a hero in Greek mythology, best known as the leader of the Calydonian Boar Hunt and for his tragic death linked to a fateful burning log.
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A.
Meleager
Meleager was a short-reigning Hellenistic king of Egypt from the Ptolemaic dynasty, briefly ruling after the death of his brother Ptolemy Keraunos in the early 3rd century BCE.
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B.
Meleager of Gadara
Meleager of Gadara was a Hellenistic Greek poet best known for compiling one of the earliest anthologies of epigrams, which later formed a core part of the Greek Anthology.
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C.
Neocles
Neocles was an Athenian of the late 6th century BC, best known as the father of the prominent statesman and general Themistocles.
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D.
Eurytus
Eurytus is a famed archer-king in Greek mythology, known as the ruler of Oechalia and a rival of Heracles in archery and in love.
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E.
Alcathous
Alcathous is the ancient acropolis of the Greek city of Megara, serving as its fortified citadel and religious center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hero in Greek mythology
ⓘ
mythological figure ⓘ |
| afterlifeLocation | Hades ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Homer’s Iliad
ⓘ
linked to:
Homer's Iliad
|
| associatedAnimal | boar ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Aetolia ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Argonauts
ⓘ
Atalanta ⓘ Calydonian Boar ⓘ
linked to:
CalydonianBoar
Fates ⓘ |
| causeOfConflict | award of the boar’s hide to Atalanta ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| deathAgent | Althaea ⓘ |
| deathCause | burning of a fateful log ⓘ |
| deathType | cursed death ⓘ |
| father | Oeneus ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandfather | Porthaon ⓘ |
| homeCity |
Calydon
ⓘ
linked to:
Kalydon
|
| inspirationFor | later tragic treatments in Greek literature ⓘ |
| killed |
Calydonian Boar
ⓘ
linked to:
CalydonianBoar
his maternal uncles ⓘ |
| killedBy | Althaea’s curse ⓘ |
| kingdom |
Calydon
ⓘ
linked to:
Kalydon
|
| knownFor |
leading the Calydonian Boar Hunt
ⓘ
tragic death linked to a burning log ⓘ |
| memberOf | Argonauts ⓘ |
| mentionedBy |
Apollodorus
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollodorus of Athens
Homer ⓘ Ovid ⓘ |
| mother | Althaea ⓘ |
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
anger and family conflict
ⓘ
fate versus free will ⓘ heroic glory and tragic downfall ⓘ |
| objectLinkedToLife | fateful log ⓘ |
| parentalLineage | royal house of Calydon ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Calydonian Boar Hunt ⓘ |
| prophecy | his life would last as long as a particular log remained unburned ⓘ |
| roleInCalydonianHunt | leader ⓘ |
| sibling |
Deianeira
ⓘ
linked to:
Deianira
|
| spouseOrLover | Atalanta ⓘ |
| uncle |
Plexippus
ⓘ
Toxeus ⓘ |
| visitedByInHades | Heracles ⓘ |
| weapon | spear ⓘ |
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: Meleager Description of subject: Meleager is a hero in Greek mythology, best known as the leader of the Calydonian Boar Hunt and for his tragic death linked to a fateful burning log.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.