Phasaelis
E70559
Phasaelis was a Nabatean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV, best known as the first wife of Herod Antipas whose repudiation of her led to political and military conflict.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T530300 — 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: Phasaelis Context triple: [Herod Antipas, spouse, Phasaelis]
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A.
Celaeno
Celaeno is one of the Pleiad nymphs in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione.
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B.
Argeiphontes
Argeiphontes is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes, highlighting his role as the slayer of the many-eyed giant Argus Panoptes.
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C.
Hesperopeuce
Hesperopeuce is a little-known genus of coniferous trees in the pine family Pinaceae, native to South America and sometimes treated as part of the genus Podocarpus.
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D.
Asterope
Asterope is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with tending the gods’ blissful garden and its golden apples.
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E.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family 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: Phasaelis Target entity description: Phasaelis was a Nabatean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV, best known as the first wife of Herod Antipas whose repudiation of her led to political and military conflict.
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A.
Celaeno
Celaeno is one of the Pleiad nymphs in Greek mythology, a daughter of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione.
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B.
Argeiphontes
Argeiphontes is an epithet of the Greek god Hermes, highlighting his role as the slayer of the many-eyed giant Argus Panoptes.
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C.
Hesperopeuce
Hesperopeuce is a little-known genus of coniferous trees in the pine family Pinaceae, native to South America and sometimes treated as part of the genus Podocarpus.
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D.
Asterope
Asterope is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with tending the gods’ blissful garden and its golden apples.
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E.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nabatean princess
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historical figure ⓘ |
| causeOfMaritalRepudiation | Herod Antipas’s desire to marry Herodias ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Nabatean Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
Nabataean kingdom
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| ethnicGroup |
Nabateans
ⓘ
linked to:
Nabataean kingdom
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| family | House of Aretas ⓘ |
| father | Aretas IV ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Herodian Tetrarchy under Roman rule
ⓘ
linked to:
tetrarchy of Herod Antipas
|
| languageContext | likely spoke Nabatean Aramaic ⓘ |
| marriageType | dynastic marriage ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Josephus’s Antiquities of the Jews
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linked to:
Antiquities of the Jews
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| notableFor |
being the first wife of Herod Antipas
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her repudiation by Herod Antipas ⓘ role in the conflict between Herod Antipas and Aretas IV ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin |
Nabatean Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
Nabataean kingdom
|
| politicalSignificance |
her flight from Herod Antipas contributed to war between their realms
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her marriage strengthened ties between Herod Antipas and Aretas IV ⓘ |
| positionHeld | wife of the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea ⓘ |
| relatedEvent |
diplomatic crisis between Nabatean Kingdom and Herod Antipas
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war between Herod Antipas and Aretas IV ⓘ |
| relatedPerson |
Herodias
ⓘ
John the Baptist ⓘ |
| religion | likely Nabatean polytheism ⓘ |
| spouse | Herod Antipas ⓘ |
| spouseOfTitle |
tetrarch of Galilee
ⓘ
tetrarch of Perea ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century CE ⓘ |
| title | princess of Nabatea ⓘ |
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: Phasaelis Description of subject: Phasaelis was a Nabatean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV, best known as the first wife of Herod Antipas whose repudiation of her led to political and military conflict.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Phasaelis