Myrmidon (son of Zeus)
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Myrmidon (son of Zeus) is a figure in Greek mythology regarded as the legendary ancestor and namesake of the Myrmidons, the famed warriors led by Achilles in the Trojan War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Myrmidon (son of Zeus) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7105225 — 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: Myrmidon (son of Zeus) Context triple: [Myrmidons, eponymousAncestor, Myrmidon (son of Zeus)]
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A.
Diomed
Diomed was an 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the inaugural Epsom Derby and later becoming an influential sire in American bloodlines.
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B.
Palamedes
Palamedes is a 1625 Dutch tragedy by Joost van den Vondel that allegorically critiques political and religious injustice in the Dutch Republic.
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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.
Diomedes
Diomedes is a hero from Greek mythology, famed for his role in the Trojan War as one of the Achaeans’ greatest warriors and a favored ally of the goddess Athena.
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E.
Diomedon
Diomedon was an Athenian naval commander during the Peloponnesian War, noted for his role in major late-war battles against Sparta.
- 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: Myrmidon (son of Zeus) Target entity description: Myrmidon (son of Zeus) is a figure in Greek mythology regarded as the legendary ancestor and namesake of the Myrmidons, the famed warriors led by Achilles in the Trojan War.
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A.
Diomed
Diomed was an 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the inaugural Epsom Derby and later becoming an influential sire in American bloodlines.
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B.
Palamedes
Palamedes is a 1625 Dutch tragedy by Joost van den Vondel that allegorically critiques political and religious injustice in the Dutch Republic.
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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.
Diomedes
Diomedes is a hero from Greek mythology, famed for his role in the Trojan War as one of the Achaeans’ greatest warriors and a favored ally of the goddess Athena.
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E.
Diomedon
Diomedon was an Athenian naval commander during the Peloponnesian War, noted for his role in major late-war battles against Sparta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
eponymous hero
ⓘ
figure in Greek mythology ⓘ mythological ancestor ⓘ |
| appearsInTradition | Greek heroic legend ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Myrmidons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| childOf | Zeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Achilles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trojan War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek mythology ⓘ |
| ethnicProgenitorOf | Myrmidons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| etymologicalRelation | the name of the Myrmidons derives from Myrmidon ⓘ |
| hasFather | Zeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalFunction | explains origin of the Myrmidon people ⓘ |
| hasNotableAssociations |
Achilles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trojan War NERFINISHED ⓘ Zeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableDescendants | Myrmidons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| indirectlyLeadsTo | warriors who followed Achilles at Troy ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mythologicalRole | eponymous ancestor of a Thessalian people ⓘ |
| namesakeOf | Myrmidons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regardedAs | legendary ancestor of the Myrmidons ⓘ |
| regionAssociatedWith | Thessaly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
eponymous ancestor
ⓘ
heroic lineage ⓘ |
| relatedGroup | Greek 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: Myrmidon (son of Zeus) Description of subject: Myrmidon (son of Zeus) is a figure in Greek mythology regarded as the legendary ancestor and namesake of the Myrmidons, the famed warriors led by Achilles in the Trojan War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Myrmidons