Tigranes
E337582
Tigranes was a Persian military commander who led Achaemenid forces against the Greeks at the Battle of Mycale in 479 BC.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tigranes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3218129 — 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: Tigranes Context triple: [Battle of Mycale, PersianCommander, Tigranes]
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A.
Tiridates III of Armenia
Tiridates III of Armenia was a king of Armenia best known for adopting Christianity as the state religion in the early 4th century, making Armenia the first officially Christian nation.
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B.
Mithridates VI Eupator
Mithridates VI Eupator was a powerful 1st-century BCE king of Pontus, famed for his fierce resistance to Roman expansion in the Mithridatic Wars and his legendary experiments with poisons and antidotes.
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C.
Vologases IV of Parthia
Vologases IV of Parthia was a 2nd-century king of the Parthian Empire known for his prolonged conflicts with Rome and efforts to assert Parthian power in the Near East.
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D.
Argishti I
Argishti I was a powerful 8th-century BCE king of Urartu known for expanding the kingdom’s territory, founding the fortress city of Erebuni (modern Yerevan), and commissioning extensive building and irrigation projects.
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E.
Vaballathus
Vaballathus was a 3rd-century Palmyrene prince and briefly recognized Roman imperial claimant who ruled alongside his mother Zenobia during the Palmyrene Empire’s expansion before being defeated by Emperor Aurelian.
- 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: Tigranes Target entity description: Tigranes was a Persian military commander who led Achaemenid forces against the Greeks at the Battle of Mycale in 479 BC.
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A.
Tiridates III of Armenia
Tiridates III of Armenia was a king of Armenia best known for adopting Christianity as the state religion in the early 4th century, making Armenia the first officially Christian nation.
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B.
Mithridates VI Eupator
Mithridates VI Eupator was a powerful 1st-century BCE king of Pontus, famed for his fierce resistance to Roman expansion in the Mithridatic Wars and his legendary experiments with poisons and antidotes.
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C.
Phraortes
Phraortes was an early king of the Medes who expanded Median power and is traditionally credited with helping lay the foundations of the Median Empire in ancient Iran.
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D.
Vologases IV of Parthia
Vologases IV of Parthia was a 2nd-century king of the Parthian Empire known for his prolonged conflicts with Rome and efforts to assert Parthian power in the Near East.
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E.
Argishti I
Argishti I was a powerful 8th-century BCE king of Urartu known for expanding the kingdom’s territory, founding the fortress city of Erebuni (modern Yerevan), and commissioning extensive building and irrigation projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Achaemenid military commander
ⓘ
military commander ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInYear | 479 BC ⓘ |
| allegiance | Achaemenid Empire ⓘ |
| battle | Battle of Mycale ⓘ |
| commanded | Achaemenid forces at the Battle of Mycale ⓘ |
| conflict | Greco-Persian Wars ⓘ |
| country | Achaemenid Empire ⓘ |
| culture | Persian ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Persian ⓘ |
| givenName | Tigranes ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Classical antiquity ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Achaemenid army
ⓘ
linked to:
Persian army
|
| notableFor | commanding Persian forces at the Battle of Mycale ⓘ |
| opponent | Greek forces ⓘ |
| region | Asia Minor ⓘ |
| role | commander of Persian land forces at Mycale ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Persians at the Battle of Mycale ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 5th century BC ⓘ |
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: Tigranes Description of subject: Tigranes was a Persian military commander who led Achaemenid forces against the Greeks at the Battle of Mycale in 479 BC.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.