Iras
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Iras is a loyal attendant and companion to Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iras canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5128024 — 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: Iras Context triple: [Antony and Cleopatra, mainCharacter, Iras]
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A.
Viras
Viras is a squid-like alien kaiju from the Gamera film series, known as a leader of an invading extraterrestrial race that battles the giant turtle monster.
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B.
Ihnasya
Ihnasya is a city in Egypt known for its location within the Beni Suef Governorate along the Nile Valley.
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C.
Ira
Ira is a supporting character in the 1984 adventure-romance film "Romancing the Stone," involved in the story’s treasure-hunting and kidnapping plot.
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D.
Idas
Idas is a figure in Greek mythology known as a heroic but contentious suitor who abducted Marpessa and later became her husband.
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E.
Iaeger
Iaeger is a small town located in McDowell County in the southern coalfields region of West Virginia, United States.
- 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: Iras Target entity description: Iras is a loyal attendant and companion to Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
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A.
Viras
Viras is a squid-like alien kaiju from the Gamera film series, known as a leader of an invading extraterrestrial race that battles the giant turtle monster.
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B.
Ihnasya
Ihnasya is a city in Egypt known for its location within the Beni Suef Governorate along the Nile Valley.
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C.
Ira
Ira is a supporting character in the 1984 adventure-romance film "Romancing the Stone," involved in the story’s treasure-hunting and kidnapping plot.
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D.
Idas
Idas is a figure in Greek mythology known as a heroic but contentious suitor who abducted Marpessa and later became her husband.
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E.
Iaeger
Iaeger is a small town located in McDowell County in the southern coalfields region of West Virginia, United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shakespearean character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Antony and Cleopatra ⓘ |
| appearsInAct | multiple acts of Antony and Cleopatra ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Antony
ⓘ
linked to:
Mark Antony
Cleopatra ⓘ Egypt ⓘ |
| basedOn | attendants of Cleopatra described in Plutarch ⓘ |
| characterType | supporting character ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| deathCause | asp bite ⓘ |
| diesWith | Cleopatra ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | tragedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryCanon |
Shakespearean canon
ⓘ
linked to:
works of William Shakespeare
|
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Cleopatra ⓘ |
| loyaltyTrait | loyal ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| nationality | Egyptian ⓘ |
| occupation | attendant ⓘ |
| partOf |
the court of Cleopatra
ⓘ
linked to:
Cleopatra's court
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| role | companion of Cleopatra ⓘ |
| serves | Cleopatra ⓘ |
| setting |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
ancient Egypt ⓘ |
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: Iras Description of subject: Iras is a loyal attendant and companion to Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.