Lycus
E71302
Lycus is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a son of the Pleiad Celaeno and the god Poseidon.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lycus canonical | 17 |
| Lycus (son of Poseidon) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T555276 — 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: Lycus Context triple: [Celaeno, child, Lycus]
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A.
Dardanus
Dardanus is a figure in Greek mythology, often regarded as a son of Zeus and Electra and the legendary ancestor of the Trojans and Romans.
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B.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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C.
Argeiphontes
Argeiphontes is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes, highlighting his role as the slayer of the many-eyed giant Argus Panoptes.
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D.
Crius
Crius is one of the twelve primordial Titans of Greek mythology, associated with the constellations and the cosmic order preceding the Olympian gods.
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E.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
- 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: Lycus Target entity description: Lycus is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a son of the Pleiad Celaeno and the god Poseidon.
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A.
Dardanus
Dardanus is a figure in Greek mythology, often regarded as a son of Zeus and Electra and the legendary ancestor of the Trojans and Romans.
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B.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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C.
Argeiphontes
Argeiphontes is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes, highlighting his role as the slayer of the many-eyed giant Argus Panoptes.
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D.
Crius
Crius is one of the twelve primordial Titans of Greek mythology, associated with the constellations and the cosmic order preceding the Olympian gods.
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E.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
demigod
ⓘ
figure in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Pleiades
ⓘ
Thessaly ⓘ |
| category |
Children of Poseidon
ⓘ
Children of the Pleiades ⓘ Demigods in Greek mythology ⓘ |
| father | Poseidon ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasDivineAncestry | Poseidon ⓘ |
| hasMortalOrSemiDivineAncestry | Celaeno ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalRole | regional hero ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalStatus | minor figure ⓘ |
| hasMythologicalTraditionVariant | parentage from Poseidon and Celaeno ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Eurypylus ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
later mythographic traditions
ⓘ
scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes ⓘ |
| mother | Celaeno ⓘ |
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | wolf ⓘ |
| parent |
Celaeno
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Poseidon ⓘ |
| relatedMythologicalTheme |
heroic genealogy
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sea deities ⓘ |
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: Lycus Description of subject: Lycus is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a son of the Pleiad Celaeno and the god Poseidon.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.