Artashata
E425158
Artashata was the original name of Darius III, the last king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire who was defeated by Alexander the Great.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Artashata canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4216483 — 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: Artashata Context triple: [Darius III, birthName, Artashata]
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A.
Panticapaeum
Panticapaeum was an important ancient Greek city and trading center on the Cimmerian Bosporus, located where the modern city of Kerch in Crimea now stands.
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B.
Edessa
Edessa is a historic city in northern Greece renowned for its picturesque waterfalls and ancient heritage.
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C.
Edessa
Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
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D.
Nineveh
Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
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E.
Turkmenabat
Turkmenabat is one of the largest cities in Turkmenistan, serving as an important industrial, transport, and cultural center in the country’s east near the border with Uzbekistan.
- 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: Artashata Target entity description: Artashata was the original name of Darius III, the last king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire who was defeated by Alexander the Great.
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A.
Panticapaeum
Panticapaeum was an important ancient Greek city and trading center on the Cimmerian Bosporus, located where the modern city of Kerch in Crimea now stands.
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B.
Edessa
Edessa is a historic city in northern Greece renowned for its picturesque waterfalls and ancient heritage.
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C.
Edessa
Edessa was an ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia, renowned as a major early center of Syriac Christianity and culture.
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D.
Nineveh
Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, famed as a major political and cultural center and once the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
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E.
Turkmenabat
Turkmenabat is one of the largest cities in Turkmenistan, serving as an important industrial, transport, and cultural center in the country’s east near the border with Uzbekistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Artashata Description of subject: Artashata was the original name of Darius III, the last king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire who was defeated by Alexander the Great.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.