Rostam
E120197
Rostam is the legendary Persian hero of the Shahnameh, famed for his superhuman strength, epic battles, and central role in Iran’s mytho-historical epics.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rostam canonical | 49 |
| Rostam (hero of the Shahnameh) | 1 |
| Rostam and Esfandiyar | 1 |
| Rostam and Sohrab episode | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1040046 — 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: Rostam Context triple: [Shahnameh, featuresCharacter, Rostam]
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A.
Dinarzad
Dinarzad is a character in The Arabian Nights, known as Shahrazad’s younger sister who prompts her to tell stories each night to the king.
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B.
Bardiya
Bardiya was a son of the Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great who briefly and controversially claimed the Persian throne in the late 6th century BCE.
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C.
Arash Ferdowsi
Arash Ferdowsi is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
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D.
Eskandar
Eskandar is a Persian and Arabic form of the name Alexander, commonly used in historical and literary contexts to refer to Alexander the Great.
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E.
Ramin
Ramin is a masculine given name of Persian origin, commonly used in Iran and among Persian-speaking communities.
- 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: Rostam Target entity description: Rostam is the legendary Persian hero of the Shahnameh, famed for his superhuman strength, epic battles, and central role in Iran’s mytho-historical epics.
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A.
Dinarzad
Dinarzad is a character in The Arabian Nights, known as Shahrazad’s younger sister who prompts her to tell stories each night to the king.
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B.
Bardiya
Bardiya was a son of the Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great who briefly and controversially claimed the Persian throne in the late 6th century BCE.
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C.
Arash Ferdowsi
Arash Ferdowsi is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
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D.
Eskandar
Eskandar is a Persian and Arabic form of the name Alexander, commonly used in historical and literary contexts to refer to Alexander the Great.
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E.
Ramin
Ramin is a masculine given name of Persian origin, commonly used in Iran and among Persian-speaking communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian folk hero
ⓘ
Shahnameh character ⓘ legendary figure ⓘ mythological hero ⓘ |
| allegiance | Iran ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Shahnameh ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | treacherous pit trap ⓘ |
| characteristic |
bravery
ⓘ
loyalty to the Iranian throne ⓘ superhuman strength ⓘ tragic fate ⓘ |
| child | Sohrab ⓘ |
| companion | Rakhsh ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iran ⓘ |
| creator | Ferdowsi ⓘ |
| culture | Persian ⓘ |
| father | Zal ⓘ |
| genre | epic poetry ⓘ |
| grandfather | Sam ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
heroism
ⓘ
loyalty and duty ⓘ tragic ignorance in battle with Sohrab ⓘ |
| homeLocation |
Sistan
ⓘ
Zabulistan ⓘ
linked to:
Zabul Province
|
| influenced |
Iranian national identity
ⓘ
Persian literature ⓘ |
| killedBy | Shaghad ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Persian
ⓘ
linked to:
Persian language
|
| mother | Rudabeh ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Seven Labors of Rostam
ⓘ
linked to:
Shahnameh
battle with the White Demon ⓘ killing of Esfandiyar ⓘ tragic combat with Sohrab ⓘ |
| notableTitle | Rostam-e Dastan ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Seven Labors of Rostam
ⓘ
linked to:
Shahnameh
|
| occupation | champion of Iran ⓘ |
| opponent |
Afrasiab
ⓘ
Esfandiyar ⓘ Turanians ⓘ White Demon ⓘ |
| partOf |
Greater Iranian epic tradition
ⓘ
Iranian mythology ⓘ |
| positionHeld | paladin of the Iranian kings ⓘ |
| spouse | Tahmineh ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mythic pre-Islamic Iran ⓘ |
| weapon |
bow
ⓘ
mace ⓘ sword ⓘ |
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: Rostam Description of subject: Rostam is the legendary Persian hero of the Shahnameh, famed for his superhuman strength, epic battles, and central role in Iran’s mytho-historical epics.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Rostam
linked to: Rostam