Lysias
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Lysias was a Seleucid general and regent who led royal forces against the Jewish rebels during the Maccabean Revolt in the 2nd century BCE.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T742374 — 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: Lysias Context triple: [Maccabean Revolt, hasOpposingCommander, Lysias]
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Gorgias
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that examines the nature of rhetoric, justice, and the good life through a debate between Socrates and the sophist Gorgias.
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Gorgias
Gorgias was a pre-Socratic Greek sophist and rhetorician renowned for his skillful, ornamental style of speech and his skeptical, paradoxical philosophical arguments.
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Meletus
Meletus was the principal accuser who initiated the charges of impiety and corrupting the youth against Socrates in classical Athens.
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Κρίτων
Κρίτων is a Socratic dialogue by Plato in which Socrates discusses justice, obligation, and civil disobedience with his friend Crito while awaiting execution.
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Agathon
Agathon is a young, handsome Athenian tragedian and host of the banquet in Plato’s Symposium, known for his eloquent speech in praise of love.
- 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: Lysias Target entity description: Lysias was a Seleucid general and regent who led royal forces against the Jewish rebels during the Maccabean Revolt in the 2nd century BCE.
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A.
Gorgias
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that examines the nature of rhetoric, justice, and the good life through a debate between Socrates and the sophist Gorgias.
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B.
Gorgias
Gorgias was a pre-Socratic Greek sophist and rhetorician renowned for his skillful, ornamental style of speech and his skeptical, paradoxical philosophical arguments.
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C.
Meletus
Meletus was the principal accuser who initiated the charges of impiety and corrupting the youth against Socrates in classical Athens.
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D.
Κρίτων
Κρίτων is a Socratic dialogue by Plato in which Socrates discusses justice, obligation, and civil disobedience with his friend Crito while awaiting execution.
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E.
Agathon
Agathon is a young, handsome Athenian tragedian and host of the banquet in Plato’s Symposium, known for his eloquent speech in praise of love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hellenistic politician
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Seleucid general ⓘ military leader ⓘ regent of the Seleucid Empire ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | circa 170 BCE ⓘ |
| authorityOver | Seleucid territories in the west during his regency ⓘ |
| conflict | Maccabean Revolt ⓘ |
| country | Seleucid Empire ⓘ |
| culture | Hellenistic Greek ⓘ |
| employer |
Seleucid monarchy
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linked to:
Seleucid Empire
|
| era | Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Syrian kingdom of the Seleucids
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linked to:
Seleucid Empire
|
| knownFor | attempts to suppress Jewish autonomy in Judea ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Seleucid campaigns in Judea
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linked to:
Siege of Jerusalem by Antiochus VII Sidetes
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| notableWork | campaigns against the Maccabean revolt ⓘ |
| opponent |
Jewish rebels
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Judas Maccabeus ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Maccabean Revolt ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
commander of Seleucid royal forces
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regent for Antiochus V Eupator ⓘ |
| regencyFor | Antiochus V Eupator ⓘ |
| religion | Hellenistic paganism ⓘ |
| roleDuringMaccabeanRevolt | leader of royal Seleucid forces ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Antiochus IV Epiphanes ⓘ |
| sourceMention |
1 Maccabees
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2 Maccabees ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 2nd century BCE ⓘ |
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: Lysias Description of subject: Lysias was a Seleucid general and regent who led royal forces against the Jewish rebels during the Maccabean Revolt in the 2nd century BCE.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lysias