Seleucus III Ceraunus
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Seleucus III Ceraunus was a short-reigning Hellenistic king of the Seleucid Empire in the late 3rd century BCE, known for his troubled rule and early death during campaigns in Asia Minor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Seleucus III Ceraunus canonical | 7 |
| Seleucus Ceraunus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3283379 — 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: Seleucus III Ceraunus Context triple: [Antiochus III the Great, predecessor, Seleucus III Ceraunus]
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Seleucus IV Philopator
Seleucus IV Philopator was a Hellenistic king of the Seleucid Empire who ruled from 187 to 175 BC, known for his relatively quiet reign focused on paying heavy war indemnities to Rome after his father Antiochus III’s defeat.
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B.
Seleucus II Callinicus
Seleucus II Callinicus was a 3rd-century BC Seleucid king whose turbulent reign was marked by dynastic conflicts and territorial losses that weakened the empire founded by Seleucus I.
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C.
Attalus III
Attalus III was the last king of Pergamon, known for bequeathing his prosperous kingdom to the Roman Republic upon his death in 133 BCE.
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D.
Antiochus III the Great
Antiochus III the Great was a Hellenistic Seleucid king who significantly expanded his empire across the Near East before ultimately being defeated by Rome.
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Antiochus of Ascalon
Antiochus of Ascalon was a 1st-century BCE Greek philosopher who led a major turn in Platonism by rejecting radical skepticism and integrating Stoic and Peripatetic ideas into a more dogmatic, eclectic Platonist system.
- 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: Seleucus III Ceraunus Target entity description: Seleucus III Ceraunus was a short-reigning Hellenistic king of the Seleucid Empire in the late 3rd century BCE, known for his troubled rule and early death during campaigns in Asia Minor.
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A.
Seleucus IV Philopator
Seleucus IV Philopator was a Hellenistic king of the Seleucid Empire who ruled from 187 to 175 BC, known for his relatively quiet reign focused on paying heavy war indemnities to Rome after his father Antiochus III’s defeat.
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B.
Seleucus II Callinicus
Seleucus II Callinicus was a 3rd-century BC Seleucid king whose turbulent reign was marked by dynastic conflicts and territorial losses that weakened the empire founded by Seleucus I.
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C.
Attalus III
Attalus III was the last king of Pergamon, known for bequeathing his prosperous kingdom to the Roman Republic upon his death in 133 BCE.
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D.
Antiochus III the Great
Antiochus III the Great was a Hellenistic Seleucid king who significantly expanded his empire across the Near East before ultimately being defeated by Rome.
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E.
Antiochus of Ascalon
Antiochus of Ascalon was a 1st-century BCE Greek philosopher who led a major turn in Platonism by rejecting radical skepticism and integrating Stoic and Peripatetic ideas into a more dogmatic, eclectic Platonist system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Seleucus III Ceraunus Description of subject: Seleucus III Ceraunus was a short-reigning Hellenistic king of the Seleucid Empire in the late 3rd century BCE, known for his troubled rule and early death during campaigns in Asia Minor.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Seleucus III Ceraunus