Cassander of Macedon
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Cassander of Macedon was a 4th-century BCE king who seized control of Macedonia after Alexander the Great’s death and is notorious for ordering the execution of Alexander’s widow Roxana and their son Alexander IV.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cassander | 29 |
| Cassander of Macedon canonical | 4 |
| King Cassander of Macedon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T915600 — 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.
Target entity: Cassander of Macedon Context triple: [Pella, Greece, birthplaceOf, Cassander of Macedon]
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Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon was the 4th-century BCE king who transformed Macedonia into a dominant military power and laid the foundations for his son Alexander the Great’s vast empire.
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Alexander IV of Macedon
Alexander IV of Macedon was the posthumous son of Alexander the Great who briefly held the title of king of Macedon during the turbulent Wars of the Diadochi before being assassinated.
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Antipater the Idumaean
Antipater the Idumaean was a powerful Idumean noble and political advisor in late Hasmonean Judea, best known as the father of Herod the Great and a key architect of his rise to power under Roman patronage.
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Philip III Arrhidaeus
Philip III Arrhidaeus was the half-brother of Alexander the Great who briefly served as a nominal king of Macedon after Alexander’s death, while real power was held by his regents.
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Cimon
Cimon was a prominent 5th-century BC Athenian statesman and general who played a key role in expanding Athenian power during the early years of the Delian League.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Cassander of Macedon Target entity description: Cassander of Macedon was a 4th-century BCE king who seized control of Macedonia after Alexander the Great’s death and is notorious for ordering the execution of Alexander’s widow Roxana and their son Alexander IV.
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A.
Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon was the 4th-century BCE king who transformed Macedonia into a dominant military power and laid the foundations for his son Alexander the Great’s vast empire.
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B.
Alexander IV of Macedon
Alexander IV of Macedon was the posthumous son of Alexander the Great who briefly held the title of king of Macedon during the turbulent Wars of the Diadochi before being assassinated.
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C.
Antipater the Idumaean
Antipater the Idumaean was a powerful Idumean noble and political advisor in late Hasmonean Judea, best known as the father of Herod the Great and a key architect of his rise to power under Roman patronage.
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D.
Philip III Arrhidaeus
Philip III Arrhidaeus was the half-brother of Alexander the Great who briefly served as a nominal king of Macedon after Alexander’s death, while real power was held by his regents.
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E.
Cimon
Cimon was a prominent 5th-century BC Athenian statesman and general who played a key role in expanding Athenian power during the early years of the Delian League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Cassander of Macedon Description of subject: Cassander of Macedon was a 4th-century BCE king who seized control of Macedonia after Alexander the Great’s death and is notorious for ordering the execution of Alexander’s widow Roxana and their son Alexander IV.
Referenced by (34)
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