Socrates of Achaea
E377021
Socrates of Achaea was an ancient Greek military commander who led part of the mercenary forces serving Cyrus the Younger in his campaign against Artaxerxes II of Persia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Socrates of Achaea canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3591098 — 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: Socrates of Achaea Context triple: [army of Cyrus the Younger, commandedBy, Socrates of Achaea]
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A.
Metrocles of Maroneia
Metrocles of Maroneia was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Cynic school, known as a student of Crates of Thebes and for helping develop Cynic ethical teachings on simplicity and self-sufficiency.
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B.
Spyridon of Trimythous
Spyridon of Trimythous is a 4th-century Christian bishop and wonderworking saint especially revered in Eastern Orthodoxy for his piety, miracles, and role at the First Council of Nicaea.
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C.
Christopher of Mytilene
Christopher of Mytilene was an 11th-century Byzantine poet and cleric known for his satirical and occasional verse at the court of Constantinople.
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D.
Theodoros
Theodoros is an ancient Greek given name meaning "gift of God," from which the name Theodore is derived.
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E.
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.
- 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: Socrates of Achaea Target entity description: Socrates of Achaea was an ancient Greek military commander who led part of the mercenary forces serving Cyrus the Younger in his campaign against Artaxerxes II of Persia.
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A.
Metrocles of Maroneia
Metrocles of Maroneia was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Cynic school, known as a student of Crates of Thebes and for helping develop Cynic ethical teachings on simplicity and self-sufficiency.
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B.
Spyridon of Trimythous
Spyridon of Trimythous is a 4th-century Christian bishop and wonderworking saint especially revered in Eastern Orthodoxy for his piety, miracles, and role at the First Council of Nicaea.
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C.
Christopher of Mytilene
Christopher of Mytilene was an 11th-century Byzantine poet and cleric known for his satirical and occasional verse at the court of Constantinople.
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D.
Theodoros
Theodoros is an ancient Greek given name meaning "gift of God," from which the name Theodore is derived.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek military commander
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mercenary commander ⓘ |
| activityStartCentury | 5th century BC ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Cyrus the Younger
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Greek mercenary army ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Achaemenid Empire
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Greek mercenaries in Persian service ⓘ |
| conflict | Cyrus the Younger’s revolt against Artaxerxes II ⓘ |
| culture |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| employer | Cyrus the Younger ⓘ |
| era | Classical Greece ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Achaemenid–Greek relations ⓘ |
| knownFor | commanding a contingent of Greek mercenaries in Persia ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Greek mercenary forces ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commander ⓘ |
| nationality | Achaean ⓘ |
| opponent |
Artaxerxes II
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surface form:
Artaxerxes II of Persia
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| participantIn |
Cyrus the Younger’s revolt
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surface form:
Cyrus the Younger’s campaign against Artaxerxes II of Persia
expedition of the Ten Thousand ⓘ |
| region | Achaea ⓘ |
| role | leader of part of the Greek mercenary forces ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Cyrus the Younger ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 5th century BC ⓘ |
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: Socrates of Achaea Description of subject: Socrates of Achaea was an ancient Greek military commander who led part of the mercenary forces serving Cyrus the Younger in his campaign against Artaxerxes II of Persia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ten Thousand