Gelimer
E229541
Gelimer was the last king of the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa, known for his defeat by the Byzantine general Belisarius during the Vandalic War in the 6th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gelimer canonical | 10 |
| King Gelimer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2001702 — 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: Gelimer Context triple: [Vandal Kingdom, hasLeader, Gelimer]
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A.
Genseric
Genseric was the powerful Vandal king who ruled North Africa in the 5th century and became infamous for leading the Vandals in the plundering of Rome in 455.
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B.
Thrasamund
Thrasamund was a late 5th- to early 6th-century king of the Vandals and Alans in North Africa, noted for his relatively moderate rule and complex relations with the Byzantine Empire and the Catholic population.
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C.
Uqba ibn Nafi
Uqba ibn Nafi was a 7th-century Arab general of the early Islamic conquests, renowned for leading the Muslim expansion into North Africa and establishing it as a key region of the Islamic world.
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D.
Boabdil
Boabdil was the final Nasrid sultan of Granada, whose 1492 surrender of the city to the Catholic Monarchs marked the end of Muslim rule in Spain.
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E.
Stilicho
Stilicho was a prominent late Roman general and statesman of Vandal descent who effectively ruled the Western Roman Empire as regent during the reign of Emperor Honorius.
- 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: Gelimer Target entity description: Gelimer was the last king of the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa, known for his defeat by the Byzantine general Belisarius during the Vandalic War in the 6th century.
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A.
Genseric
Genseric was the powerful Vandal king who ruled North Africa in the 5th century and became infamous for leading the Vandals in the plundering of Rome in 455.
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B.
Thrasamund
Thrasamund was a late 5th- to early 6th-century king of the Vandals and Alans in North Africa, noted for his relatively moderate rule and complex relations with the Byzantine Empire and the Catholic population.
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C.
Uqba ibn Nafi
Uqba ibn Nafi was a 7th-century Arab general of the early Islamic conquests, renowned for leading the Muslim expansion into North Africa and establishing it as a key region of the Islamic world.
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D.
Boabdil
Boabdil was the final Nasrid sultan of Granada, whose 1492 surrender of the city to the Catholic Monarchs marked the end of Muslim rule in Spain.
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E.
Stilicho
Stilicho was a prominent late Roman general and statesman of Vandal descent who effectively ruled the Western Roman Empire as regent during the reign of Emperor Honorius.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Gelimer Description of subject: Gelimer was the last king of the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa, known for his defeat by the Byzantine general Belisarius during the Vandalic War in the 6th century.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King Gelimer