wedding feast of Pirithous
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The wedding feast of Pirithous is a famous event in Greek mythology where a battle erupted between the Lapiths and the centaurs after the latter attempted to abduct the bride and other women.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| wedding feast of Pirithous canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9708361 — 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: wedding feast of Pirithous Context triple: [Lapiths, knownFor, wedding feast of Pirithous]
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A.
Agape feast
Agape feast is an early Christian communal meal centered on fellowship, charity, and shared love among believers.
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B.
Anthesteria
Anthesteria was an ancient Athenian festival of Dionysus celebrating the new wine, fertility, and the spirits of the dead over three days each spring.
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C.
Demeter festival
Demeter festival refers to any of the ancient Greek religious celebrations held in honor of the goddess Demeter, typically associated with agriculture, fertility, and the harvest.
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D.
Thesmophoria
Thesmophoria was an ancient Greek women-only fertility festival held in honor of the goddess Demeter, associated with agriculture, marriage, and the prosperity of the community.
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E.
wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia
The wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia is a famed event in Greek mythology celebrated by all the gods and marked by the gifting of the cursed necklace of Harmonia.
- 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: wedding feast of Pirithous Target entity description: The wedding feast of Pirithous is a famous event in Greek mythology where a battle erupted between the Lapiths and the centaurs after the latter attempted to abduct the bride and other women.
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A.
Agape feast
Agape feast is an early Christian communal meal centered on fellowship, charity, and shared love among believers.
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B.
Anthesteria
Anthesteria was an ancient Athenian festival of Dionysus celebrating the new wine, fertility, and the spirits of the dead over three days each spring.
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C.
Demeter festival
Demeter festival refers to any of the ancient Greek religious celebrations held in honor of the goddess Demeter, typically associated with agriculture, fertility, and the harvest.
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D.
Thesmophoria
Thesmophoria was an ancient Greek women-only fertility festival held in honor of the goddess Demeter, associated with agriculture, marriage, and the prosperity of the community.
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E.
wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia
The wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia is a famed event in Greek mythology celebrated by all the gods and marked by the gifting of the cursed necklace of Harmonia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
episode in Greek mythology
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mythological event ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
civilization versus barbarism
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marriage disrupted by violence ⓘ order versus chaos ⓘ violation of xenia ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek religion and mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedIn |
Classical Greek sculpture
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Greek vase painting ⓘ |
| describedAs | wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Eurytion the centaur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hippodamia NERFINISHED ⓘ Pirithous NERFINISHED ⓘ Theseus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresGroup |
Centaurs
ⓘ
Lapiths NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | heroic myth ⓘ |
| hasCause |
attempted abduction of Hippodamia by centaurs
ⓘ
drunken violence of the centaurs ⓘ |
| hasConsequence |
affirmation of Lapith superiority
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defeat of many centaurs ⓘ separation of centaurs from human society ⓘ |
| hasLocation |
Thessaly
NERFINISHED
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land of the Lapiths NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
attempted bride abduction
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drunken guests at a wedding ⓘ heroic intervention at a feast ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
Centaurs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hippodamia NERFINISHED ⓘ Lapiths NERFINISHED ⓘ Pirithous NERFINISHED ⓘ Theseus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSetting | banquet hall of Pirithous ⓘ |
| initiatedBy | marriage of Pirithous and Hippodamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| moralInterpretation |
condemnation of sexual violence
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warning against lack of self-control ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
example of the dangers of hubris and excess
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origin of the Lapith–centaur conflict ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Lapith warriors
ⓘ
Theseus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Theseus myths
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myth of the Lapiths ⓘ myth of the centaurs ⓘ |
| relatedWork | centauromachy on the Parthenon metopes ⓘ |
| resultsIn |
battle between Lapiths and centaurs
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centauromachy ⓘ |
| timeInMythicCycle | age of heroes ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: wedding feast of Pirithous Description of subject: The wedding feast of Pirithous is a famous event in Greek mythology where a battle erupted between the Lapiths and the centaurs after the latter attempted to abduct the bride and other women.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.