Tanyoxarces
E344001
Tanyoxarces is an alternative name for Bardiya, the son of Cyrus the Great who briefly ruled the Achaemenid Persian Empire before being overthrown by Darius I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tanyoxarces canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3295599 — 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: Tanyoxarces Context triple: [Bardiya, alsoKnownAs, Tanyoxarces]
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A.
Protoxerus
Protoxerus is a genus of large African squirrels known for their robust bodies and arboreal lifestyles within the squirrel subfamily Xerinae.
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B.
Oxydactylus
Oxydactylus is an extinct genus of early camelid-like mammals that lived in North America during the Oligocene epoch.
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C.
Enosichthon
Enosichthon is an epithet of the Greek god Poseidon that emphasizes his power as the earth-shaker and bringer of earthquakes.
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D.
Agelastes
Agelastes is a small genus of African guineafowl known for its relatively plain, dark plumage and forest-dwelling habits.
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E.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
- 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: Tanyoxarces Target entity description: Tanyoxarces is an alternative name for Bardiya, the son of Cyrus the Great who briefly ruled the Achaemenid Persian Empire before being overthrown by Darius I.
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A.
Protoxerus
Protoxerus is a genus of large African squirrels known for their robust bodies and arboreal lifestyles within the squirrel subfamily Xerinae.
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B.
Oxydactylus
Oxydactylus is an extinct genus of early camelid-like mammals that lived in North America during the Oligocene epoch.
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C.
Enosichthon
Enosichthon is an epithet of the Greek god Poseidon that emphasizes his power as the earth-shaker and bringer of earthquakes.
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D.
Agelastes
Agelastes is a small genus of African guineafowl known for its relatively plain, dark plumage and forest-dwelling habits.
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E.
Clytoneus
Clytoneus is a minor figure in Greek mythology, known as one of the sons of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer’s Odyssey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | historicalPerson ⓘ |
| alternativeNameOf | Bardiya ⓘ |
| associatedWith | succession crisis of the Achaemenid Empire ⓘ |
| childOf | Cyrus the Great ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Achaemenid Empire ⓘ |
| culture | Persian ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed during power struggle (traditional account, historically debated) ⓘ |
| disputedIdentity | Yes ⓘ |
| dynasty | Achaemenid dynasty ⓘ |
| era | 6th century BC ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Persian ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | partly legendary and disputed ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Achaemenid royal inscriptions (indirectly and controversially)
ⓘ
ancient Greek sources ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Greek-transmitted form of an Old Persian name ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Achaemenid dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Achaemenid royal family
|
| nameVariant |
Bardiya
ⓘ
Smerdis ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being overthrown by Darius I
ⓘ
being son of Cyrus the Great ⓘ briefly ruling the Achaemenid Empire ⓘ |
| overthrownBy |
Darius I of Persia
ⓘ
surface form:
Darius I
|
| positionHeld |
Shahanshah of Persia
ⓘ
surface form:
King of Persia
Achaemenid kings ⓘ
surface form:
King of the Achaemenid Empire
|
| predecessor | Cambyses II ⓘ |
| reignCharacteristic | brief reign ⓘ |
| sibling | Cambyses II ⓘ |
| successor |
Darius I of Persia
ⓘ
surface form:
Darius I
|
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: Tanyoxarces Description of subject: Tanyoxarces is an alternative name for Bardiya, the son of Cyrus the Great who briefly ruled the Achaemenid Persian Empire before being overthrown by Darius I.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.