Cresphontes
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Cresphontes is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the Heracleidae and a descendant of Heracles involved in the legendary return of his lineage to the Peloponnese.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cresphontes canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5431851 — 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: Cresphontes Context triple: [Heracleidae, hasMember, Cresphontes]
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A.
Phalaecus
Phalaecus was a 4th-century BCE Phocian military leader and general who played a key role in the later stages of the Third Sacred War in ancient Greece.
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B.
Asterope
Asterope is a figure from Greek mythology, often identified as one of the Pleiad nymphs and associated with the star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
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C.
Asterope
Asterope is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with tending the gods’ blissful garden and its golden apples.
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D.
Pterelaus
Pterelaus is a mythological king in Greek legend, known for his golden, immortality-granting hair and his conflict with Amphitryon over the kingdom of the Taphians.
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E.
Thyreus
Thyreus is a minor Roman envoy in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra," whose attempt to court Cleopatra on Caesar’s behalf provokes Antony’s jealous rage.
- 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: Cresphontes Target entity description: Cresphontes is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the Heracleidae and a descendant of Heracles involved in the legendary return of his lineage to the Peloponnese.
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A.
Phalaecus
Phalaecus was a 4th-century BCE Phocian military leader and general who played a key role in the later stages of the Third Sacred War in ancient Greece.
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B.
Asterope
Asterope is a figure from Greek mythology, often identified as one of the Pleiad nymphs and associated with the star cluster in the constellation Taurus.
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C.
Asterope
Asterope is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with tending the gods’ blissful garden and its golden apples.
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D.
Pterelaus
Pterelaus is a mythological king in Greek legend, known for his golden, immortality-granting hair and his conflict with Amphitryon over the kingdom of the Taphians.
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E.
Thyreus
Thyreus is a minor Roman envoy in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra," whose attempt to court Cleopatra on Caesar’s behalf provokes Antony’s jealous rage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Heraclid
ⓘ
mythological figure ⓘ |
| ancestor | Heracles ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Messenia
ⓘ
Peloponnese ⓘ |
| category |
Characters in Greek mythology
ⓘ
Kings in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| child | Aepytus ⓘ |
| culture | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| descendantOf |
Zeus (through Heracles)
ⓘ
linked to:
Zeus
|
| ethnicity | Dorian ⓘ |
| father | Aristomachus ⓘ |
| grandfather | Cleodaeus ⓘ |
| greatGrandfather | Hyillus ⓘ |
| killedBy | rebellious nobles of Messenia ⓘ |
| kingOf | Messenia ⓘ |
| ledInvasionOf | Messenia ⓘ |
| memberOf | Heracleidae ⓘ |
| mythType | founder-king ⓘ |
| notableMyth | restoration of Heraclid rule in the Peloponnese ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Return of the Heracleidae ⓘ |
| roleInMyth | conqueror of Messenia ⓘ |
| ruledInRegion | Peloponnese ⓘ |
| sibling |
Aristodemus
ⓘ
Temenus ⓘ |
| source |
Apollodorus
ⓘ
linked to:
Apollodorus of Athens
Pausanias ⓘ |
| spouse |
Merope
ⓘ
linked to:
Merope (daughter of Oenopion)
|
| timePeriod | mythical age of heroes ⓘ |
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: Cresphontes Description of subject: Cresphontes is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the Heracleidae and a descendant of Heracles involved in the legendary return of his lineage to the Peloponnese.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.