Costobarus
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Costobarus was a Judean noble of Idumean descent who married into Herod the Great’s family and became an influential political figure in the Herodian court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Costobarus canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3160079 — 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: Costobarus Context triple: [Herodias, maternalGrandfather, Costobarus]
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A.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
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B.
Colubrina
Colubrina is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees known for their hard wood and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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C.
Critobulus
Critobulus was an ancient Athenian known from Plato’s dialogues as the son of Crito and an associate of Socrates.
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D.
Agelastes
Agelastes is a small genus of African guineafowl known for its relatively plain, dark plumage and forest-dwelling habits.
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E.
Liostenogaster
Liostenogaster is a genus of hover wasps within the subfamily Stenogastrinae, known for their social behavior and distinctive nest-building in tropical regions.
- 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: Costobarus Target entity description: Costobarus was a Judean noble of Idumean descent who married into Herod the Great’s family and became an influential political figure in the Herodian court.
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A.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
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B.
Colubrina
Colubrina is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees known for their hard wood and occurrence in tropical and subtropical regions.
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C.
Critobulus
Critobulus was an ancient Athenian known from Plato’s dialogues as the son of Crito and an associate of Socrates.
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D.
Agelastes
Agelastes is a small genus of African guineafowl known for its relatively plain, dark plumage and forest-dwelling habits.
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E.
Liostenogaster
Liostenogaster is a genus of hover wasps within the subfamily Stenogastrinae, known for their social behavior and distinctive nest-building in tropical regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Herodian court official
ⓘ
Idumean ⓘ Judean noble ⓘ |
| activeDuring | reign of Herod the Great ⓘ |
| ancestralOrigin | Idumea ⓘ |
| areaRuled | Idumea ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Idumean nobility
ⓘ
Judean aristocracy ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Herod the Great ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Judea ⓘ |
| describedBySource | Flavius Josephus ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Antiquities of the Jews
ⓘ
The Jewish War ⓘ
linked to:
Josephus’s work "The Jewish War"
|
| employer | Herod the Great ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Idumean
ⓘ
linked to:
Idumeans
|
| fate | executed by Herod the Great ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Roman Judea
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman province of Judea
|
| languageOfName | Greek ⓘ |
| marriedInto |
Herod the Great’s family
ⓘ
linked to:
Herod the Great
|
| memberOf |
Herodian court
ⓘ
linked to:
Herodian royal court
|
| notableEvent |
divorce from Salome I
ⓘ
secretly supported opposition to Herod’s rule ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Herodian dynasty ⓘ |
| notableFor | Idumean leadership under Herod the Great ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
provincial governor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Idumea
ⓘ
Judea ⓘ |
| politicalAllegiance |
Herodian kingdom of Judea
ⓘ
linked to:
Herodian Kingdom
|
| politicalRole | influential figure at the Herodian court ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
governor of Idumea
ⓘ
strategos of Idumea ⓘ |
| reasonForExecution | suspected disloyalty to Herod the Great ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Herod the Great ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sibling | Herod the Great ⓘ |
| spouse |
Costobarus
ⓘ
Salome I ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st 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: Costobarus Description of subject: Costobarus was a Judean noble of Idumean descent who married into Herod the Great’s family and became an influential political figure in the Herodian court.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.