Cupid

E68848

Roman god deity of love mythological figure

Cupid is the Roman god of love and desire, traditionally depicted as a winged boy whose arrows cause people to fall in love.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Cupid canonical	32
Eros	7
Cupid (Roman god of love)	1
Cupid at the fountain	1
Cupid with bow and arrow	1
Cupid with finger to lips	1
Eros (in some traditions)	1
Eros (through his arrow to Apollo)	1
personified Cupid	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T548776 — 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: Cupid
Context triple: [Mars Being Disarmed by Venus, depicts, Cupid]

A. Cupid
Cupid is one of Santa Claus’s traditional flying reindeer, typically depicted pulling his sleigh on Christmas Eve.
B. Gabriel
Gabriel is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, widely used in many cultures and languages.
C. Gautreau
Gautreau is the surname of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the New Orleans–born socialite best known as the subject of John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "Portrait of Madame X."
D. Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
E. Hermes
Hermes is the fleet-footed Greek god of trade, travel, and communication, who serves as messenger of the Olympian gods and guide of souls to the underworld.
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: Cupid
Target entity description: Cupid is the Roman god of love and desire, traditionally depicted as a winged boy whose arrows cause people to fall in love.

A. Cupid
Cupid is one of Santa Claus’s traditional flying reindeer, typically depicted pulling his sleigh on Christmas Eve.
B. Gabriel
Gabriel is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, widely used in many cultures and languages.
C. Gautreau
Gautreau is the surname of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the New Orleans–born socialite best known as the subject of John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "Portrait of Madame X."
D. Sterope
Sterope is a figure from Greek mythology, traditionally considered one of the Pleiades and a daughter of the Titan Atlas.
E. Hermes
Hermes is the fleet-footed Greek god of trade, travel, and communication, who serves as messenger of the Olympian gods and guide of souls to the underworld.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Roman god ⓘ deity of love ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ
artMotif	putto ⓘ
artTradition	Baroque art ⓘ Renaissance art ⓘ
associatedWith	Psyche ⓘ Venus ⓘ
category	Love and lust gods ⓘ Mythological archers ⓘ Roman gods ⓘ
childOf	Olympian gods ⓘ
culture	Roman mythology ⓘ
domain	desire ⓘ love ⓘ
effectOfGoldenArrows	arouse love ⓘ
effectOfLeadArrows	arouse aversion ⓘ
equivalentTo	Amor ⓘ Cupid self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Eros
gender	male ⓘ
greekCounterpart	Eros (primordial) ⓘ surface form: Eros
holidayAssociation	Valentine's Day ⓘ
iconographicAttribute	arrows ⓘ bow ⓘ quiver ⓘ wings ⓘ
influenced	Western art ⓘ Western literature ⓘ
languageOfName	Latin ⓘ
meaningOfName	desire ⓘ
mythCycle	Amore e Psiche ⓘ surface form: Cupid and Psyche
oftenDepictedWith	blindfold ⓘ torch ⓘ
parent	Mars ⓘ Venus ⓘ
power	to inflame desire ⓘ to make people fall in love ⓘ
spouse	Psyche ⓘ
symbolicTheme	love as burning flame ⓘ love is blind ⓘ
symbolOf	attraction ⓘ erotic desire ⓘ romantic love ⓘ
typicalDepiction	nude child ⓘ winged boy ⓘ
weaponType	golden arrows ⓘ lead arrows ⓘ

How these facts were elicited