Phayllus
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Phayllus was a 4th-century BCE Phocian military leader who succeeded his brother Onomarchus and continued commanding Phocian forces during the Third Sacred War against Thebes and its allies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phayllus canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T699224 — 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: Phayllus Context triple: [Third Sacred War, commander, Phayllus]
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A.
Phasaelis
Phasaelis was a Nabatean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV, best known as the first wife of Herod Antipas whose repudiation of her led to political and military conflict.
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B.
Mythodea
Mythodea is a large-scale symphonic and choral composition by Greek composer Vangelis, originally written for NASA’s Mars mission and known for its grand, cinematic orchestral style.
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C.
Hyacinthus
Hyacinthus is a beautiful Spartan youth from Greek mythology whose tragic death and transformation into a flower are closely associated with the god Apollo.
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D.
Daphne
Daphne is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for being pursued by Apollo and transformed into a laurel tree to escape him.
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E.
Phaenarete
Phaenarete was an Athenian midwife best known as the mother of the philosopher Socrates.
- 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: Phayllus Target entity description: Phayllus was a 4th-century BCE Phocian military leader who succeeded his brother Onomarchus and continued commanding Phocian forces during the Third Sacred War against Thebes and its allies.
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A.
Phasaelis
Phasaelis was a Nabatean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV, best known as the first wife of Herod Antipas whose repudiation of her led to political and military conflict.
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B.
Mythodea
Mythodea is a large-scale symphonic and choral composition by Greek composer Vangelis, originally written for NASA’s Mars mission and known for its grand, cinematic orchestral style.
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C.
Hyacinthus
Hyacinthus is a beautiful Spartan youth from Greek mythology whose tragic death and transformation into a flower are closely associated with the god Apollo.
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D.
Daphne
Daphne is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for being pursued by Apollo and transformed into a laurel tree to escape him.
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E.
Phaenarete
Phaenarete was an Athenian midwife best known as the mother of the philosopher Socrates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
4th-century BCE Greek person
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Phocian general ⓘ ancient Greek military leader ⓘ |
| activeYears | mid-4th century BCE ⓘ |
| alliance | Phocian League ⓘ |
| citizenship | Phocis ⓘ |
| commanded | Phocian army ⓘ |
| conflict | Third Sacred War ⓘ |
| deathCause | disease ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Phocis ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Greek ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableBattle | operations against Boeotian and Theban forces ⓘ |
| notableFor | continuing Phocian resistance in the Third Sacred War ⓘ |
| opponent |
Theban-led coalition
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Thebes ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Third Sacred War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander of Phocian forces ⓘ |
| predecessor | Onomarchus ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
central Greece
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surface form:
Central Greece
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| relative | Onomarchus ⓘ |
| sibling | Onomarchus ⓘ |
| successor | Phalaecus ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| usedResource | Delphic temple treasures to pay mercenaries ⓘ |
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: Phayllus Description of subject: Phayllus was a 4th-century BCE Phocian military leader who succeeded his brother Onomarchus and continued commanding Phocian forces during the Third Sacred War against Thebes and its allies.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.