Hermogenes
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Hermogenes was a Byzantine military commander known for leading imperial forces during the Iberian War against the Sasanian Empire in the early 6th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hermogenes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5903505 — 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: Hermogenes Context triple: [Iberian War, hasCommander, Hermogenes]
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A.
Hermogenes
Hermogenes is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Cratylus," where he participates in a philosophical discussion with Socrates about the correctness and nature of names.
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B.
Hermogenes
Hermogenes was a Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, a leading figure of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early 17th century.
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C.
Thrasyllus
Thrasyllus was an Athenian general and politician of the late 5th century BCE who played a prominent role in the naval campaigns of the Peloponnesian War.
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D.
Heraclides Ponticus
Heraclides Ponticus was a 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher and astronomer known for proposing that the Earth rotates on its axis and for early heliocentric ideas.
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E.
Eugammon of Cyrene
Eugammon of Cyrene was an ancient Greek poet, traditionally credited with composing the lost epic Telegony that continued the story of 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: Hermogenes Target entity description: Hermogenes was a Byzantine military commander known for leading imperial forces during the Iberian War against the Sasanian Empire in the early 6th century.
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A.
Hermogenes
Hermogenes is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Cratylus," where he participates in a philosophical discussion with Socrates about the correctness and nature of names.
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B.
Hermogenes
Hermogenes was a Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, a leading figure of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early 17th century.
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C.
Thrasyllus
Thrasyllus was an Athenian general and politician of the late 5th century BCE who played a prominent role in the naval campaigns of the Peloponnesian War.
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D.
Heraclides Ponticus
Heraclides Ponticus was a 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher and astronomer known for proposing that the Earth rotates on its axis and for early heliocentric ideas.
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E.
Eugammon of Cyrene
Eugammon of Cyrene was an ancient Greek poet, traditionally credited with composing the lost epic Telegony that continued the story of Homer’s Odyssey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Byzantine general
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Byzantine official ⓘ diplomat ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 6th century ⓘ |
| activity | negotiating peace with the Sasanian Empire ⓘ |
| allegiance | Roman Empire (Byzantine) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Belisarius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Iberian War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Byzantine Empire ⓘ |
| employer | Eastern Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Justinianic period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | early 6th century ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Roman–Sasanian Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
campaigns against the Sasanian Empire
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service in the Iberian War ⓘ |
| languageOfRecord | Greek ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Byzantine army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
co-commanded Byzantine forces at the Battle of Dara
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shared command with Belisarius during the Iberian War ⓘ took part in peace negotiations after the Iberian War ⓘ |
| opponent | Sasanian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Callinicum
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Dara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
general of the East
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magister officiorum ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Eastern frontier of the Byzantine Empire
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Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
commander of imperial forces in the East
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imperial envoy to the Sasanian court ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Emperor Justinian I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceMention | Procopius of Caesarea 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: Hermogenes Description of subject: Hermogenes was a Byzantine military commander known for leading imperial forces during the Iberian War against the Sasanian Empire in the early 6th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.