Agathocles of Syracuse
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Agathocles of Syracuse was a powerful tyrant and later king of ancient Syracuse, known for his ruthless rule, military campaigns against Carthage, and significant influence over Sicilian and central Mediterranean politics in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BCE.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Agathocles of Syracuse canonical | 3 |
| House of Agathocles of Syracuse | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21807203 — 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: Agathocles of Syracuse Context triple: [Mamertines of Messana, originallyServed, Agathocles of Syracuse]
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Dionysius I of Syracuse
Dionysius I of Syracuse was a powerful 4th-century BCE tyrant of Syracuse known for his military campaigns against Carthage and his transformation of the city into a major Mediterranean power.
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Dionysius II of Syracuse
Dionysius II of Syracuse was a 4th-century BC tyrant of Syracuse whose troubled and often ineffectual rule contrasted with that of his powerful father and led to political instability and eventual exile.
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C.
Agathocles of Pella
Agathocles of Pella was the eldest son and onetime heir of the Hellenistic king Lysimachus, whose execution helped trigger political turmoil and the collapse of his father’s kingdom.
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Gelon of Gela
Gelon of Gela was a powerful early 5th-century BC Greek tyrant who rose to rule both Gela and Syracuse, playing a major role in Sicilian and wider Greek politics during the Persian Wars era.
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King Gelon II of Syracuse
King Gelon II of Syracuse was a 3rd-century BC ruler of the Sicilian city-state of Syracuse, known as a patron of learning and the dedicatee of Archimedes’ work *The Sand Reckoner*.
- 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: Agathocles of Syracuse Target entity description: Agathocles of Syracuse was a powerful tyrant and later king of ancient Syracuse, known for his ruthless rule, military campaigns against Carthage, and significant influence over Sicilian and central Mediterranean politics in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BCE.
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A.
Dionysius I of Syracuse
Dionysius I of Syracuse was a powerful 4th-century BCE tyrant of Syracuse known for his military campaigns against Carthage and his transformation of the city into a major Mediterranean power.
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B.
Dionysius II of Syracuse
Dionysius II of Syracuse was a 4th-century BC tyrant of Syracuse whose troubled and often ineffectual rule contrasted with that of his powerful father and led to political instability and eventual exile.
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C.
Agathocles of Pella
Agathocles of Pella was the eldest son and onetime heir of the Hellenistic king Lysimachus, whose execution helped trigger political turmoil and the collapse of his father’s kingdom.
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D.
Gelon of Gela
Gelon of Gela was a powerful early 5th-century BC Greek tyrant who rose to rule both Gela and Syracuse, playing a major role in Sicilian and wider Greek politics during the Persian Wars era.
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E.
King Gelon II of Syracuse
King Gelon II of Syracuse was a 3rd-century BC ruler of the Sicilian city-state of Syracuse, known as a patron of learning and the dedicatee of Archimedes’ work *The Sand Reckoner*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Agathocles of Syracuse