floating island of Aeolia
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The floating island of Aeolia is the mythical, drifting home of Aeolus, ruler of the winds, in ancient Greek mythology.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aeolian island of Aeolus | 1 |
| floating island of Aeolia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6882860 — 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: floating island of Aeolia Context triple: [Aeolus, residesIn, floating island of Aeolia]
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A.
island of Aeaea
The island of Aeaea is the mythical home of the enchantress Circe in Greek mythology, where she famously transformed Odysseus’s men into animals.
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B.
Scheria
Scheria is the mythical island kingdom of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey, renowned as the last hospitable stop on Odysseus’s journey home.
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C.
Flatland Island
Flatland Island is a small island located within Thunder Bay on the northern shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
Isle of Calypso
The Isle of Calypso is a poetic nickname for the Maltese island of Gozo, inspired by its association with the nymph Calypso from Homer’s Odyssey and its rugged, mythic Mediterranean landscape.
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E.
Ogygia
Ogygia is the remote, mythical island in Greek mythology where the nymph Calypso detained Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
- 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: floating island of Aeolia Target entity description: The floating island of Aeolia is the mythical, drifting home of Aeolus, ruler of the winds, in ancient Greek mythology.
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A.
island of Aeaea
The island of Aeaea is the mythical home of the enchantress Circe in Greek mythology, where she famously transformed Odysseus’s men into animals.
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B.
Scheria
Scheria is the mythical island kingdom of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey, renowned as the last hospitable stop on Odysseus’s journey home.
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C.
Flatland Island
Flatland Island is a small island located within Thunder Bay on the northern shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
Isle of Calypso
The Isle of Calypso is a poetic nickname for the Maltese island of Gozo, inspired by its association with the nymph Calypso from Homer’s Odyssey and its rugged, mythic Mediterranean landscape.
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E.
Ogygia
Ogygia is the remote, mythical island in Greek mythology where the nymph Calypso detained Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
floating island
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island in Greek mythology ⓘ mythological location ⓘ |
| appearsInMythCycle | Odyssean voyage of Odysseus ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Homeric tradition
ⓘ
linked to:
Homeric epics
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| associatedDeity | Aeolus ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
sailing
ⓘ
storms ⓘ winds ⓘ |
| category |
Floating islands in mythology
ⓘ
Locations in Greek mythology ⓘ Mythological islands ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Aeolus, ruler of the winds
ⓘ
linked to:
Aeolus
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| country | none (mythical) ⓘ |
| describedAs |
drifting home of Aeolus
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floating island ⓘ |
| etymologyRelatedTo | Aeolus ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Aeolia ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
dwelling of the ruler of the winds
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place where winds are kept and controlled ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
drifting
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mobile ⓘ surrounded by winds ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | ancient Greek mythology ⓘ |
| mythologicalTradition | Greek ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | stop on Odysseus’s journey home ⓘ |
| primaryInhabitant | Aeolus ⓘ |
| ruler | Aeolus ⓘ |
| visitedBy | Odysseus ⓘ |
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: floating island of Aeolia Description of subject: The floating island of Aeolia is the mythical, drifting home of Aeolus, ruler of the winds, in ancient Greek mythology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.