Cleon
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Cleon was an influential Athenian statesman and general during the Peloponnesian War, known for his aggressive policies and prominent role in Athenian politics.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T607010 — 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: Cleon Context triple: [Peloponnesian War, notableCommander, Cleon]
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Cirón
Cirón is a river in southwestern France known for flowing through the Sauternes wine region, where its cool misty microclimate helps produce the area’s famous sweet wines.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Phlius
Phlius was an ancient Greek city-state in the northeastern Peloponnese, known from classical literature and philosophy.
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Dioscorus
Dioscorus is traditionally depicted in Christian hagiography as the pagan father of Saint Barbara who opposed her conversion and ultimately martyred her.
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E.
Linos
Linos is an alternative form of the name Linus, often associated with figures from ancient Greek mythology and early Christian tradition.
- 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: Cleon Target entity description: Cleon was an influential Athenian statesman and general during the Peloponnesian War, known for his aggressive policies and prominent role in Athenian politics.
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A.
Cirón
Cirón is a river in southwestern France known for flowing through the Sauternes wine region, where its cool misty microclimate helps produce the area’s famous sweet wines.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Phlius
Phlius was an ancient Greek city-state in the northeastern Peloponnese, known from classical literature and philosophy.
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D.
Dioscorus
Dioscorus is traditionally depicted in Christian hagiography as the pagan father of Saint Barbara who opposed her conversion and ultimately martyred her.
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E.
Linos
Linos is an alternative form of the name Linus, often associated with figures from ancient Greek mythology and early Christian tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Athenian general
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Athenian statesman ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 5th century BC ⓘ |
| advocatedPolicy |
continuation of the Peloponnesian War
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hardline stance against Sparta ⓘ severe treatment of revolting allies ⓘ |
| citizenship | Athens ⓘ |
| country | Classical Athens ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed in battle ⓘ |
| deathEvent | battle during the Peloponnesian War ⓘ |
| describedBySource |
Aristophanes
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Thucydides ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Classical Greece ⓘ |
| knownFor |
aggressive policies
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prominent role in Athenian politics ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| militaryCommand |
Athenian forces at Pylos
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Athenian forces at Sphacteria ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
advocacy of harsh measures against rebellious allies
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leadership in the Mytilenean debate ⓘ role in the decision on Mytilene during the Peloponnesian War ⓘ |
| notableVictory | Athenian victory at Sphacteria ⓘ |
| occupation |
general
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orator ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| opponent | Sparta ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Peloponnesian War ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | radical democracy ⓘ |
| politicalBase | Athenian lower classes ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | demagogue ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
leading politician in the Athenian Assembly
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strategos of Athens ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
Athenian Assembly (Ekklesia)
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surface form:
Athenian Assembly
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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: Cleon Description of subject: Cleon was an influential Athenian statesman and general during the Peloponnesian War, known for his aggressive policies and prominent role in Athenian politics.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Conon
subject surface form:
Sphacteria