Hermeric
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Hermeric was an early 5th-century king of the Suebi who established their kingdom in Gallaecia in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hermeric canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2238098 — 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: Hermeric Context triple: [Suebi, notableLeader, Hermeric]
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A.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
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B.
Osphranter
Osphranter is a genus of large Australian marsupials that includes several species of kangaroos and wallaroos.
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C.
Cruquius
Cruquius is a village in North Holland, Netherlands, known for its historic steam pumping station that helped drain the Haarlemmermeer lake.
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D.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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E.
Teurnia
Teurnia was an important ancient Roman city that served as a major administrative and cultural center in the province of Noricum, located in what is now southern Austria.
- 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: Hermeric Target entity description: Hermeric was an early 5th-century king of the Suebi who established their kingdom in Gallaecia in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
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A.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
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B.
Osphranter
Osphranter is a genus of large Australian marsupials that includes several species of kangaroos and wallaroos.
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C.
Cruquius
Cruquius is a village in North Holland, Netherlands, known for its historic steam pumping station that helped drain the Haarlemmermeer lake.
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D.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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E.
Teurnia
Teurnia was an important ancient Roman city that served as a major administrative and cultural center in the province of Noricum, located in what is now southern Austria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Suebian king
ⓘ
human ⓘ king ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Iberian Peninsula
ⓘ
Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| child | Rechila ⓘ |
| conflict |
conflicts with the Gallaecian populace
ⓘ
wars with the Vandals in the Iberian Peninsula ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of the Suebi ⓘ |
| deathDate | c. 441 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Gallaecia
ⓘ
linked to:
Galicia
|
| era | early 5th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Suebi ⓘ |
| languageOfRecord | Latin ⓘ |
| mainlyKnownFor | establishing the Suebian kingdom in Gallaecia ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | works of Hydatius of Aquae Flaviae ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
concluded a treaty with the Western Roman Empire recognizing Suebian control in Gallaecia
ⓘ
led the Suebi during their settlement in Gallaecia ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first barbarian kings to found a stable kingdom on former Roman territory in Hispania ⓘ |
| occupation | king ⓘ |
| partOf |
Migration Period
ⓘ
linked to:
Migration Period in Europe
|
| positionHeld | King of the Suebi ⓘ |
| region |
Gallaecia
ⓘ
linked to:
Galicia
northwest of the Iberian Peninsula ⓘ |
| reignEnd | c. 438 ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 409 ⓘ |
| religion |
Arian Christianity
ⓘ
linked to:
Arianism
|
| successor | Rechila ⓘ |
| title | Rex Suevorum ⓘ |
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: Hermeric Description of subject: Hermeric was an early 5th-century king of the Suebi who established their kingdom in Gallaecia in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.