altar of Zeus
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The altar of Zeus is an ancient Greek religious structure at Nemea where sacrifices and offerings were made in honor of the chief Olympian god.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| altar of Zeus canonical | 3 |
| Altars of Zeus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5968560 — 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: altar of Zeus Context triple: [Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea, hasStructure, altar of Zeus]
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altar of Zeus
The altar of Zeus is a monumental Hellenistic altar from ancient Pergamon, renowned for its grand architecture and dramatic frieze depicting the Gigantomachy between gods and giants.
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altar of Zeus Horkios
The altar of Zeus Horkios was a sacred structure at Olympia where oaths were sworn to Zeus as guardian of justice and honesty, particularly in the context of political and athletic life.
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altar of Apollo
The altar of Apollo at Claros is an ancient Greek religious structure dedicated to the god Apollo, forming part of the renowned oracle and sanctuary complex in Ionia.
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altar of Zeus in Troy
The altar of Zeus in Troy is a sacred religious site in the ancient city of Troy, associated in myth with royal rituals and the dramatic deaths of key Trojan figures.
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altar of Hera at Olympia
The altar of Hera at Olympia was an ancient Greek sacrificial site within the sanctuary of Olympia, dedicated to the goddess Hera and used for important religious rituals and offerings.
- 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: altar of Zeus Target entity description: The altar of Zeus is an ancient Greek religious structure at Nemea where sacrifices and offerings were made in honor of the chief Olympian god.
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A.
altar of Zeus
The altar of Zeus is a monumental Hellenistic altar from ancient Pergamon, renowned for its grand architecture and dramatic frieze depicting the Gigantomachy between gods and giants.
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B.
altar of Zeus Horkios
The altar of Zeus Horkios was a sacred structure at Olympia where oaths were sworn to Zeus as guardian of justice and honesty, particularly in the context of political and athletic life.
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C.
altar of Apollo
The altar of Apollo at Claros is an ancient Greek religious structure dedicated to the god Apollo, forming part of the renowned oracle and sanctuary complex in Ionia.
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altar of Zeus in Troy
The altar of Zeus in Troy is a sacred religious site in the ancient city of Troy, associated in myth with royal rituals and the dramatic deaths of key Trojan figures.
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altar of Hera at Olympia
The altar of Hera at Olympia was an ancient Greek sacrificial site within the sanctuary of Olympia, dedicated to the goddess Hera and used for important religious rituals and offerings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
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: altar of Zeus Description of subject: The altar of Zeus is an ancient Greek religious structure at Nemea where sacrifices and offerings were made in honor of the chief Olympian god.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.