Pyrrhus of Epirus
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Pyrrhus of Epirus was a Hellenistic Greek king and general, famed for his costly victories against Rome that gave rise to the term “Pyrrhic victory.”
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pyrrhus of Epirus canonical | 33 |
| King Pyrrhus of Epirus | 2 |
| Hellenistic king Pyrrhus of Epirus | 1 |
| Pyrrhus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2303859 — 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: Pyrrhus of Epirus Context triple: [Tarentum, invitedAsMilitaryLeader, Pyrrhus of Epirus]
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A.
Alexander of Epirus
Alexander of Epirus was a 4th-century BC Molossian king and uncle of Alexander the Great, known for his campaigns in southern Italy against various Italic peoples.
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B.
Epaminondas
Epaminondas was a Theban statesman and general of Classical Greece renowned for his military innovations and decisive victories over Sparta, which shifted the balance of power in the Greek world.
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C.
Demetrios
Demetrios is a Greek given name historically borne by several notable Byzantine figures, including members of the Palaiologos dynasty.
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D.
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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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
- 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: Pyrrhus of Epirus Target entity description: Pyrrhus of Epirus was a Hellenistic Greek king and general, famed for his costly victories against Rome that gave rise to the term “Pyrrhic victory.”
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A.
Alexander of Epirus
Alexander of Epirus was a 4th-century BC Molossian king and uncle of Alexander the Great, known for his campaigns in southern Italy against various Italic peoples.
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B.
Epaminondas
Epaminondas was a Theban statesman and general of Classical Greece renowned for his military innovations and decisive victories over Sparta, which shifted the balance of power in the Greek world.
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C.
Demetrios
Demetrios is a Greek given name historically borne by several notable Byzantine figures, including members of the Palaiologos dynasty.
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D.
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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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 (59)
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: Pyrrhus of Epirus Description of subject: Pyrrhus of Epirus was a Hellenistic Greek king and general, famed for his costly victories against Rome that gave rise to the term “Pyrrhic victory.”
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Theatre of Dodona
this entity surface form:
King Pyrrhus of Epirus
this entity surface form:
King Pyrrhus of Epirus
this entity surface form:
Hellenistic king Pyrrhus of Epirus