Ptolemy Memphites
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Ptolemy Memphites was a Ptolemaic prince of Egypt whose politically motivated murder by his father Ptolemy VIII made him a tragic figure in the dynasty’s violent internal power struggles.
All labels observed (1)
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| Ptolemy Memphites canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18561996 — 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: Ptolemy Memphites Context triple: [Cleopatra II of Egypt, child, Ptolemy Memphites]
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A.
Ptolemy Philadelphus
Ptolemy Philadelphus was the youngest son of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony, a Ptolemaic prince whose brief life was overshadowed by the fall of his parents’ rule to Rome.
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B.
Rex Ptolemaeus
Rex Ptolemaeus was the royal title borne by Ptolemy of Mauretania, the last king of the North African client kingdom of Mauretania under the Roman Empire.
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C.
Ptolemaios
Ptolemaios is the Latinized name of Claudius Ptolemaeus, the Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, and geographer whose works like the Almagest and Geographia shaped scientific thought for centuries.
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D.
Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great who became ruler of Egypt and established the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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E.
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Ptolemy II Philadelphus was a Hellenistic king of Egypt whose prosperous and culturally vibrant reign saw major expansion of the Library of Alexandria and the consolidation of Ptolemaic power in the eastern Mediterranean.
- 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: Ptolemy Memphites Target entity description: Ptolemy Memphites was a Ptolemaic prince of Egypt whose politically motivated murder by his father Ptolemy VIII made him a tragic figure in the dynasty’s violent internal power struggles.
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A.
Ptolemy Philadelphus
Ptolemy Philadelphus was the youngest son of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony, a Ptolemaic prince whose brief life was overshadowed by the fall of his parents’ rule to Rome.
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B.
Rex Ptolemaeus
Rex Ptolemaeus was the royal title borne by Ptolemy of Mauretania, the last king of the North African client kingdom of Mauretania under the Roman Empire.
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C.
Ptolemaios
Ptolemaios is the Latinized name of Claudius Ptolemaeus, the Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, and geographer whose works like the Almagest and Geographia shaped scientific thought for centuries.
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D.
Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great who became ruler of Egypt and established the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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E.
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Ptolemy II Philadelphus was a Hellenistic king of Egypt whose prosperous and culturally vibrant reign saw major expansion of the Library of Alexandria and the consolidation of Ptolemaic power in the eastern Mediterranean.
- F. None of above. chosen
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