Xerxes II of Persia
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Xerxes II of Persia was a short-reigning Achaemenid king who briefly ruled the Persian Empire in the 5th century BCE before being assassinated amid dynastic struggles.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Xerxes II | 5 |
| Xerxes II of Persia canonical | 2 |
| Xerxes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3001814 — 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: Xerxes II of Persia Context triple: [Artaxerxes I of Persia, successor, Xerxes II of Persia]
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A.
Xerxes I
Xerxes I was a 5th-century BCE king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire best known for his massive invasion of Greece, including the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis.
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B.
Artaxerxes I of Persia
Artaxerxes I of Persia was a 5th-century BCE Achaemenid king best known for ruling a vast Persian Empire and appearing in biblical history as the monarch who interacted with Jewish leaders during the restoration of Jerusalem.
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C.
Artaxerxes II
Artaxerxes II was a long-reigning 4th-century BCE Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty, known for internal revolts and conflicts with Greek city-states during his rule.
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D.
Artaxerxes III
Artaxerxes III was a 4th-century BCE king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire known for reconsolidating imperial control, notably by reconquering Egypt, before being assassinated in a court intrigue.
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E.
Darius I of Persia
Darius I of Persia was a powerful Achaemenid king (reigned 522–486 BCE) known for expanding and organizing the Persian Empire, promoting administrative reforms, and supporting major building projects across his realm.
- 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: Xerxes II of Persia Target entity description: Xerxes II of Persia was a short-reigning Achaemenid king who briefly ruled the Persian Empire in the 5th century BCE before being assassinated amid dynastic struggles.
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A.
Xerxes I
Xerxes I was a 5th-century BCE king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire best known for his massive invasion of Greece, including the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis.
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B.
Artaxerxes I of Persia
Artaxerxes I of Persia was a 5th-century BCE Achaemenid king best known for ruling a vast Persian Empire and appearing in biblical history as the monarch who interacted with Jewish leaders during the restoration of Jerusalem.
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C.
Artaxerxes II
Artaxerxes II was a long-reigning 4th-century BCE Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty, known for internal revolts and conflicts with Greek city-states during his rule.
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D.
Artaxerxes III
Artaxerxes III was a 4th-century BCE king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire known for reconsolidating imperial control, notably by reconquering Egypt, before being assassinated in a court intrigue.
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E.
Darius I of Persia
Darius I of Persia was a powerful Achaemenid king (reigned 522–486 BCE) known for expanding and organizing the Persian Empire, promoting administrative reforms, and supporting major building projects across his realm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Xerxes II of Persia Description of subject: Xerxes II of Persia was a short-reigning Achaemenid king who briefly ruled the Persian Empire in the 5th century BCE before being assassinated amid dynastic struggles.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Xerxes II
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Xerxes II
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Xerxes II
this entity surface form:
Xerxes II
this entity surface form:
Xerxes
this entity surface form:
Xerxes II