Atlas from Greek mythology
E693
Atlas from Greek mythology is a Titan condemned to hold up the sky for eternity, often associated with endurance and the western edge of the world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Atlas from Greek mythology canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17596 — 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: Atlas from Greek mythology Context triple: [Atlantic Ocean, namedAfter, Atlas from Greek mythology]
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A.
Dædalus
Dædalus is a scholarly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that features interdisciplinary essays on culture, science, public affairs, and the arts.
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B.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
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C.
Giza
Giza is an Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile, famous for the Giza Plateau where the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are located.
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D.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
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E.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
- 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: Atlas from Greek mythology Target entity description: Atlas from Greek mythology is a Titan condemned to hold up the sky for eternity, often associated with endurance and the western edge of the world.
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A.
Dædalus
Dædalus is a scholarly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that features interdisciplinary essays on culture, science, public affairs, and the arts.
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B.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
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C.
Giza
Giza is an Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile, famous for the Giza Plateau where the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are located.
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D.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
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E.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Titan
ⓘ
figure in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| associatedGeographicalFeature | Atlas Mountains ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
astronomy
ⓘ
endurance ⓘ mountains ⓘ the western edge of the world ⓘ |
| causeOfPunishment | participation in the Titanomachy against the Olympian gods ⓘ |
| children |
Alcyone
ⓘ
Calypso ⓘ Celaeno ⓘ Electra ⓘ Hesperides ⓘ Hyades ⓘ Maia ⓘ Merope ⓘ Pleiades ⓘ Sterope ⓘ Taygete ⓘ |
| condemnation | to hold up the sky for eternity ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| domain |
heavens
ⓘ
western cosmos ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandchildren |
Hermes
ⓘ
various heroes through his daughters ⓘ |
| iconography | depicted carrying the celestial sphere on his shoulders ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
ⓘ
Hesiod's Theogony ⓘ Homer's Odyssey ⓘ |
| mythologicalEvent | Titanomachy ⓘ |
| oftenConfusedWith | personification of a world map or globe in later art ⓘ |
| parent |
Clymene
ⓘ
Iapetus ⓘ |
| punishedBy | Zeus ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlas Mountains
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western edge of the known world ⓘ |
| role | bearer of the heavens ⓘ |
| sibling |
Epimetheus
ⓘ
Menoetius ⓘ Prometheus ⓘ |
| spouseOrConsort |
Celaeno
ⓘ
surface form:
Pleione
|
| symbolizes |
burden
ⓘ
endurance ⓘ strength ⓘ |
| transformationLocation | Libya ⓘ |
| transformedInto | mountain range in some myths ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
Greece
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Greece
|
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: Atlas from Greek mythology Description of subject: Atlas from Greek mythology is a Titan condemned to hold up the sky for eternity, often associated with endurance and the western edge of the world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.