Lycaon
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Lycaon is a figure in Greek mythology, often portrayed as a king of Arcadia cursed and transformed into a wolf for offending Zeus, and regarded as a legendary ancestor of the Arcadians.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lycaon canonical | 8 |
| Lycaon (in some versions) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8954235 — 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: Lycaon Context triple: [Arcadians, mythicalAncestry, Lycaon]
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A.
Lycaon
Lycaon is a monotypic canid genus best known for its sole living species, the highly social and cooperatively hunting African wild dog.
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B.
Ixion
Ixion is a large trans-Neptunian object and plutino in the Kuiper Belt, notable for its size, reddish color, and eccentric orbit in 2:3 resonance with Neptune.
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C.
Lycaonians
The Lycaonians were an ancient people of central Anatolia, known from classical sources and the New Testament for their distinct language and culture in the region of Lycaonia.
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D.
Cycnus
Cycnus is a figure from Greek mythology, known primarily as a formidable warrior who battles Heracles in the ancient poem "Shield of Heracles."
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E.
Antaeus
Antaeus is a giant in Greek mythology, famed for drawing his strength from contact with the earth and being defeated by Heracles.
- 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: Lycaon Target entity description: Lycaon is a figure in Greek mythology, often portrayed as a king of Arcadia cursed and transformed into a wolf for offending Zeus, and regarded as a legendary ancestor of the Arcadians.
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A.
Lycaon
Lycaon is a monotypic canid genus best known for its sole living species, the highly social and cooperatively hunting African wild dog.
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B.
Ixion
Ixion is a large trans-Neptunian object and plutino in the Kuiper Belt, notable for its size, reddish color, and eccentric orbit in 2:3 resonance with Neptune.
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C.
Lycaonians
The Lycaonians were an ancient people of central Anatolia, known from classical sources and the New Testament for their distinct language and culture in the region of Lycaonia.
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D.
Cycnus
Cycnus is a figure from Greek mythology, known primarily as a formidable warrior who battles Heracles in the ancient poem "Shield of Heracles."
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E.
Antaeus
Antaeus is a giant in Greek mythology, famed for drawing his strength from contact with the earth and being defeated by Heracles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
figure in Greek mythology
ⓘ
legendary ancestor ⓘ mythological king ⓘ |
| associatedRitual | Lykaia festival ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Arcadia
ⓘ
Zeus Lykaios ⓘ werewolf myth ⓘ |
| cultSite | Mount Lykaion ⓘ |
| culture |
Ancient Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| cursedBy | Zeus ⓘ |
| etymologyRelatedTo | Greek word lykos (wolf) ⓘ |
| fatherOf | many sons ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
impiety
ⓘ
testing Zeus with a gruesome meal ⓘ |
| mythology | Greek mythology ⓘ |
| mythType | etiological myth ⓘ |
| nameInGreek | Λυκάων ⓘ |
| offended | Zeus ⓘ |
| punishment | metamorphosis into a wolf ⓘ |
| regardedAs | ancestor of the Arcadians ⓘ |
| regionRuled | Arcadia ⓘ |
| roleInMyth | impious host to Zeus in disguise ⓘ |
| sourceText |
Apollodorus' Bibliotheca
ⓘ
Ovid's Metamorphoses ⓘ
linked to:
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Pausanias' Description of Greece ⓘ
linked to:
Pausanias’ Description of Greece
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| symbolizes |
divine punishment for human impiety
ⓘ
origin of lycanthropy motif ⓘ |
| title | King of Arcadia ⓘ |
| transformedInto | wolf ⓘ |
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: Lycaon Description of subject: Lycaon is a figure in Greek mythology, often portrayed as a king of Arcadia cursed and transformed into a wolf for offending Zeus, and regarded as a legendary ancestor of the Arcadians.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Callisto (nymph in Greek mythology)
linked to: Lycaon
subject linked to:
Maenalus (mythological figure)