Artavasdes II
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Artavasdes II was a 1st-century BC king of Armenia known for his shifting alliances between Rome and Parthia and his eventual capture and execution by Mark Antony.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Artavasdes II canonical | 1 |
| Artavasdes II of Media Atropatene | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5078021 — 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: Artavasdes II Context triple: [Kingdom of Armenia, notableRuler, Artavasdes II]
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A.
Artaxias I
Artaxias I was the founder of the Artaxiad dynasty and an early king who significantly expanded and consolidated the Kingdom of Armenia in the 2nd century BCE.
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B.
Artaxata
Artaxata was an ancient city that served as a major political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Armenia.
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C.
Tigranes
Tigranes was a Persian military commander who led Achaemenid forces against the Greeks at the Battle of Mycale in 479 BC.
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D.
Euthydemus I
Euthydemus I was a prominent Hellenistic king who ruled the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom in the 3rd century BCE and successfully defended it against Seleucid attempts at reconquest.
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E.
Tiridates III of Armenia
Tiridates III of Armenia was a king of Armenia best known for adopting Christianity as the state religion in the early 4th century, making Armenia the first officially Christian nation.
- 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: Artavasdes II Target entity description: Artavasdes II was a 1st-century BC king of Armenia known for his shifting alliances between Rome and Parthia and his eventual capture and execution by Mark Antony.
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A.
Artaxias I
Artaxias I was the founder of the Artaxiad dynasty and an early king who significantly expanded and consolidated the Kingdom of Armenia in the 2nd century BCE.
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B.
Artaxata
Artaxata was an ancient city that served as a major political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Armenia.
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C.
Tigranes
Tigranes was a Persian military commander who led Achaemenid forces against the Greeks at the Battle of Mycale in 479 BC.
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D.
Euthydemus I
Euthydemus I was a prominent Hellenistic king who ruled the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom in the 3rd century BCE and successfully defended it against Seleucid attempts at reconquest.
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E.
Tiridates III of Armenia
Tiridates III of Armenia was a king of Armenia best known for adopting Christianity as the state religion in the early 4th century, making Armenia the first officially Christian nation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Armenia
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historical figure ⓘ |
| alliedWith |
Parthian Empire
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Roman Republic ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Mark Antony ⓘ |
| conflict |
Campaigns of Mark Antony in the East
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Roman–Parthian Wars ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Armenia ⓘ |
| deathCause | execution ⓘ |
| deathCentury | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| deathYear | 34 BC ⓘ |
| era | Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Armenians ⓘ |
| executedBy | Mark Antony ⓘ |
| father | Tigranes the Great ⓘ |
| knownFor |
literary interests
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patronage of Hellenistic culture ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Armenian
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Greek ⓘ |
| notableEvent | betrayal and capture after alliance with Rome deteriorated ⓘ |
| notableFor | shifting alliances between Rome and Parthia ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Alexandria ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Armenia ⓘ |
| predecessor | Tigranes the Great ⓘ |
| region | Caucasus ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 34 BC ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 55 BC ⓘ |
| spouse | Sosemē ⓘ |
| successor |
Artaxias II
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linked to:
Artaxias II of Armenia
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Artavasdes II Description of subject: Artavasdes II was a 1st-century BC king of Armenia known for his shifting alliances between Rome and Parthia and his eventual capture and execution by Mark Antony.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Iotapa, daughter of King Artavasdes II of Media Atropatene
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father
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Artavasdes II of Media Atropatene
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linked to: Artavasdes II