Hormizd I
E560137
Hormizd I was a 3rd-century Sasanian king of kings of Iran, known for his brief reign and continuation of his father Shapur I’s imperial policies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hormizd I canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5857334 — 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: Hormizd I Context triple: [Shapur I, successor, Hormizd I]
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A.
Shapur II
Shapur II was a powerful 4th-century Sasanian king of kings known for his long reign, military campaigns against Rome, and efforts to strengthen and expand the Persian Empire.
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B.
Shapur I
Shapur I was a powerful 3rd-century Sasanian king of the Persian Empire known for his military victories against Rome and significant contributions to imperial expansion and administration.
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C.
Yazdegerd III
Yazdegerd III was the final shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire, whose reign marked the end of pre-Islamic imperial Iran following the Arab-Muslim conquests.
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D.
Ardashir I
Ardashir I was the founder and first king of the Sasanian Empire, who overthrew the Parthians and established a powerful Persian dynasty in the early 3rd century.
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E.
Arsacid Pahlavi
Arsacid Pahlavi is an ancient Northwestern Iranian language script and orthographic tradition used to write the Parthian language during the Arsacid (Parthian) Empire.
- 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: Hormizd I Target entity description: Hormizd I was a 3rd-century Sasanian king of kings of Iran, known for his brief reign and continuation of his father Shapur I’s imperial policies.
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A.
Shapur II
Shapur II was a powerful 4th-century Sasanian king of kings known for his long reign, military campaigns against Rome, and efforts to strengthen and expand the Persian Empire.
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B.
Shapur I
Shapur I was a powerful 3rd-century Sasanian king of the Persian Empire known for his military victories against Rome and significant contributions to imperial expansion and administration.
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C.
Yazdegerd III
Yazdegerd III was the final shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire, whose reign marked the end of pre-Islamic imperial Iran following the Arab-Muslim conquests.
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D.
Ardashir I
Ardashir I was the founder and first king of the Sasanian Empire, who overthrew the Parthians and established a powerful Persian dynasty in the early 3rd century.
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E.
Arsacid Pahlavi
Arsacid Pahlavi is an ancient Northwestern Iranian language script and orthographic tradition used to write the Parthian language during the Arsacid (Parthian) Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Kings of Iran
ⓘ
Sasanian king ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
city of Gundeshapur
ⓘ
linked to:
Gundeshapur
|
| capital | Ctesiphon ⓘ |
| coinage | silver drachms bearing his crowned bust ⓘ |
| country | Sasanian Empire ⓘ |
| culture | Iranian ⓘ |
| deathDate | 271 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Gundeshapur ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Sasanian dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Sasanian Empire
|
| era | 3rd century ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Persian ⓘ |
| father | Shapur I ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| house |
House of Sasan
ⓘ
linked to:
Sasan
|
| knownFor |
brief reign
ⓘ
continuation of Shapur I’s imperial policies ⓘ |
| language |
Middle Persian
ⓘ
linked to:
Middle Persian language
|
| mother | Denag ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Ardashir I
ⓘ
Bahram I ⓘ Narseh ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sasanian monarchy
ⓘ
linked to:
Sasanian emperors
|
| policy |
continuation of military campaigns initiated by Shapur I
ⓘ
support of Zoroastrian clergy ⓘ |
| positionHeld | governor of the eastern provinces before accession ⓘ |
| predecessor | Shapur I ⓘ |
| realm |
Iran
ⓘ
non-Iranian territories of the Sasanian Empire ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 271 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 270 ⓘ |
| religion | Zoroastrianism ⓘ |
| royalStyle | Mazda-worshipping king ⓘ |
| spouse | Denag ⓘ |
| successor | Bahram I ⓘ |
| successorAsShahanshah | Bahram I ⓘ |
| title |
King of Kings of Iran and non-Iran
ⓘ
Shahanshah ⓘ
linked to:
Shahanshah of Persia
|
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: Hormizd I Description of subject: Hormizd I was a 3rd-century Sasanian king of kings of Iran, known for his brief reign and continuation of his father Shapur I’s imperial policies.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.