Alexandra Maccabeus
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Alexandra Maccabeus was a Hasmonean noblewoman of the late Second Temple period and grandmother of Mariamne I, linking Herod the Great to the Hasmonean royal line.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexandra Maccabeus canonical | 1 |
| Alexandra the Maccabee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4000747 — 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: Alexandra Maccabeus Context triple: [Mariamne I, mother, Alexandra Maccabeus]
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A.
Mariamne II
Mariamne II was a Judean queen and the third wife of Herod the Great, briefly serving as queen consort during the late first century BCE.
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B.
Mariamne I
Mariamne I was a Hasmonean princess and queen of Judea, best known as the beloved yet tragically executed wife of Herod the Great.
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C.
Basilissa Ouranon
Basilissa Ouranon is the Greek name for the Queen of Heaven, a revered celestial goddess figure associated with divine authority and the heavens.
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D.
Maria Laskarina
Maria Laskarina was a 13th-century Byzantine princess and Hungarian queen consort, daughter of Emperor Theodore I Laskaris and wife of King Béla IV of Hungary.
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E.
Mariamne
Mariamne was a princess of the Herodian dynasty in the 1st century CE, known primarily as the daughter of King Herod Agrippa I of Judea.
- 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: Alexandra Maccabeus Target entity description: Alexandra Maccabeus was a Hasmonean noblewoman of the late Second Temple period and grandmother of Mariamne I, linking Herod the Great to the Hasmonean royal line.
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A.
Mariamne II
Mariamne II was a Judean queen and the third wife of Herod the Great, briefly serving as queen consort during the late first century BCE.
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B.
Mariamne I
Mariamne I was a Hasmonean princess and queen of Judea, best known as the beloved yet tragically executed wife of Herod the Great.
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C.
Basilissa Ouranon
Basilissa Ouranon is the Greek name for the Queen of Heaven, a revered celestial goddess figure associated with divine authority and the heavens.
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D.
Maria Laskarina
Maria Laskarina was a 13th-century Byzantine princess and Hungarian queen consort, daughter of Emperor Theodore I Laskaris and wife of King Béla IV of Hungary.
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E.
Mariamne
Mariamne was a princess of the Herodian dynasty in the 1st century CE, known primarily as the daughter of King Herod Agrippa I of Judea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hasmonean noblewoman
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historical figure ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Herod the Great
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Mariamne I ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole | link between Herod the Great and the Hasmonean royal line ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Judaism ⓘ |
| isGrandmotherOf | Mariamne I ⓘ |
| linksDynasties |
Hasmonean dynasty
ⓘ
Herodian dynasty ⓘ |
| livedInPeriod | late Second Temple period ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hasmonean dynasty ⓘ |
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: Alexandra Maccabeus Description of subject: Alexandra Maccabeus was a Hasmonean noblewoman of the late Second Temple period and grandmother of Mariamne I, linking Herod the Great to the Hasmonean royal line.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alexandra Maccabeus