Antipater II Etesias
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Antipater II Etesias was a short-reigning Macedonian king and son of Cassander who briefly held the throne amid the dynastic turmoil following Alexander the Great’s empire.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Antipater II Etesias canonical | 2 |
| Antipater | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4903959 — 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: Antipater II Etesias Context triple: [Cassander of Macedon, child, Antipater II Etesias]
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Antipater
Antipater was a prominent Macedonian general and statesman who served as regent of Alexander the Great’s empire and played a key role in the early Wars of the Diadochi.
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B.
Antipater the Idumaean
Antipater the Idumaean was a powerful Idumean noble and political advisor in late Hasmonean Judea, best known as the father of Herod the Great and a key architect of his rise to power under Roman patronage.
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C.
Antigonus II Gonatas
Antigonus II Gonatas was a 3rd-century BC king of Macedon who consolidated Antigonid rule and restored Macedonian power after the turmoil following Alexander the Great’s death.
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D.
Antiochus II Theos
Antiochus II Theos was a 3rd-century BC Seleucid king known for his conflicts with Ptolemaic Egypt and his role in the protracted Syrian Wars that shaped Hellenistic geopolitics.
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E.
Archelaus I of Macedon
Archelaus I of Macedon was a 5th-century BCE king of Macedon known for strengthening and reorganizing the kingdom and fostering cultural ties with the Greek world.
- 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: Antipater II Etesias Target entity description: Antipater II Etesias was a short-reigning Macedonian king and son of Cassander who briefly held the throne amid the dynastic turmoil following Alexander the Great’s empire.
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A.
Antipater
Antipater was a prominent Macedonian general and statesman who served as regent of Alexander the Great’s empire and played a key role in the early Wars of the Diadochi.
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B.
Antipater the Idumaean
Antipater the Idumaean was a powerful Idumean noble and political advisor in late Hasmonean Judea, best known as the father of Herod the Great and a key architect of his rise to power under Roman patronage.
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C.
Antigonus II Gonatas
Antigonus II Gonatas was a 3rd-century BC king of Macedon who consolidated Antigonid rule and restored Macedonian power after the turmoil following Alexander the Great’s death.
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D.
Antiochus II Theos
Antiochus II Theos was a 3rd-century BC Seleucid king known for his conflicts with Ptolemaic Egypt and his role in the protracted Syrian Wars that shaped Hellenistic geopolitics.
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E.
Archelaus I of Macedon
Archelaus I of Macedon was a 5th-century BCE king of Macedon known for strengthening and reorganizing the kingdom and fostering cultural ties with the Greek world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Macedonian king
ⓘ
ancient Greek person ⓘ |
| conflictContext |
Macedonian dynastic wars
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Wars of the Diadochi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Macedon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Macedon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Antipatrid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Macedonian ⓘ |
| father | Cassander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Antipater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | poorly attested ruler ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mother | Thessalonike of Macedon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Came to the throne after the death of Ptolemy Keraunos during the Gallic invasions of Greece ⓘ |
| notableFor | brief rule during the Macedonian dynastic struggles after Alexander the Great ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Macedon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ptolemy Keraunos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignDurationExplanation | His reign supposedly lasted only the length of the Etesian winds (about one or two months). ⓘ |
| reignDurationNickname | Etesias NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 279 BC ⓘ |
| reignStart | 279 BC ⓘ |
| sibling |
Alexander V of Macedon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Antipater I of Macedon NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip IV of Macedon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceMention | Ancient historians such as Justin and Pausanias ⓘ |
| successor | Sosthenes of Macedon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Hellenistic period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Antipater II Etesias Description of subject: Antipater II Etesias was a short-reigning Macedonian king and son of Cassander who briefly held the throne amid the dynastic turmoil following Alexander the Great’s empire.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cassander
this entity surface form:
Antipater