Hyphasis
E100574
Hyphasis is the ancient Greek name for the Beas River, a major tributary of the Indus system in northern India that marked the easternmost extent of Alexander the Great’s conquests.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hyphasis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T839170 — 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: Hyphasis Context triple: [Beas River, knownAsInAncientTimes, Hyphasis]
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A.
Chersina
Chersina is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae, best known for the South African species Chersina angulata, commonly called the angulate tortoise.
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B.
Amphissus
Amphissus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known as a son of the god Apollo.
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C.
Terevaka
Terevaka is a large extinct volcanic peak that forms the highest and youngest of the three main volcanoes making up Easter Island.
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D.
Nitria
Nitria was one of the earliest and most important Christian monastic centers in the Egyptian desert, renowned as a hub of the Desert Fathers’ ascetic life.
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E.
Clyve
Clyve is a given name, typically a modern or stylistic variant of the name Clive.
- 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: Hyphasis Target entity description: Hyphasis is the ancient Greek name for the Beas River, a major tributary of the Indus system in northern India that marked the easternmost extent of Alexander the Great’s conquests.
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A.
Chersina
Chersina is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae, best known for the South African species Chersina angulata, commonly called the angulate tortoise.
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B.
Amphissus
Amphissus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known as a son of the god Apollo.
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C.
Terevaka
Terevaka is a large extinct volcanic peak that forms the highest and youngest of the three main volcanoes making up Easter Island.
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D.
Nitria
Nitria was one of the earliest and most important Christian monastic centers in the Egyptian desert, renowned as a hub of the Desert Fathers’ ascetic life.
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E.
Clyve
Clyve is a given name, typically a modern or stylistic variant of the name Clive.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient river name
ⓘ
historical geographic entity ⓘ tributary of the Indus River system ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Alexander the Great ⓘ |
| civilizationContext | ancient Greek geography ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| flowsThrough |
Himachal Pradesh
ⓘ
Punjab, India ⓘ
linked to:
Punjab
|
| hasAlternativeName | Hyphasis River ⓘ |
| hasNameInGreek | Ὑφάσις ⓘ |
| hasRole | boundary of Alexander’s eastern campaign ⓘ |
| hasSourceRegion | Himalayas ⓘ |
| historicalEvent | Alexander the Great’s army mutiny at the Hyphasis ⓘ |
| knownFor | marking the easternmost extent of Alexander the Great’s conquests ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Punjab region
ⓘ
linked to:
Punjab
northern India ⓘ |
| mentionedBy |
Arrian
ⓘ
linked to:
Arrian of Nicomedia
Plutarch ⓘ Strabo ⓘ |
| modernName | Beas River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Indus River system
ⓘ
linked to:
Indus River basin
|
| regionInAntiquity | northwestern Indian subcontinent ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Acesines
ⓘ
Hydaspes ⓘ
linked to:
Hydaspes River
Indus River ⓘ ancient Macedonian campaigns in India ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSignificance | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Sutlej River ⓘ |
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: Hyphasis Description of subject: Hyphasis is the ancient Greek name for the Beas River, a major tributary of the Indus system in northern India that marked the easternmost extent of Alexander the Great’s conquests.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.