Xerxes
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Xerxes is one of the morbidly fated children in Edward Gorey’s darkly comic alphabet book "The Gashlycrumb Tinies."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Xerxes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20010965 — 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: Xerxes Context triple: [The Gashlycrumb Tinies, hasLetterCharacter, Xerxes]
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A.
Xerxes I
Xerxes I was a 5th-century BCE king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire best known for his massive invasion of Greece, including the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis.
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B.
Xerxes II of Persia
Xerxes II of Persia was a short-reigning Achaemenid king who briefly ruled the Persian Empire in the 5th century BCE before being assassinated amid dynastic struggles.
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C.
Artaxerxes
Artaxerxes was the regnal name of several Achaemenid Persian kings, most notably Artaxerxes I, II, and III, who ruled the Persian Empire in the 5th–4th centuries BCE.
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D.
Artaxerxes I of Persia
Artaxerxes I of Persia was a 5th-century BCE Achaemenid king best known for ruling a vast Persian Empire and appearing in biblical history as the monarch who interacted with Jewish leaders during the restoration of Jerusalem.
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E.
Artaserse
Artaserse is an opera seria by Johann Christian Bach, composed in the 18th century and based on a libretto by Metastasio about the Persian king Artaxerxes.
- 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: Xerxes Target entity description: Xerxes is one of the morbidly fated children in Edward Gorey’s darkly comic alphabet book "The Gashlycrumb Tinies."
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A.
Xerxes I
Xerxes I was a 5th-century BCE king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire best known for his massive invasion of Greece, including the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis.
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B.
Xerxes II of Persia
Xerxes II of Persia was a short-reigning Achaemenid king who briefly ruled the Persian Empire in the 5th century BCE before being assassinated amid dynastic struggles.
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C.
Artaxerxes
Artaxerxes was the regnal name of several Achaemenid Persian kings, most notably Artaxerxes I, II, and III, who ruled the Persian Empire in the 5th–4th centuries BCE.
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D.
Artaxerxes I of Persia
Artaxerxes I of Persia was a 5th-century BCE Achaemenid king best known for ruling a vast Persian Empire and appearing in biblical history as the monarch who interacted with Jewish leaders during the restoration of Jerusalem.
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E.
Artaserse
Artaserse is an opera seria by Johann Christian Bach, composed in the 18th century and based on a libretto by Metastasio about the Persian king Artaxerxes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.