Apama I
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Apama I was a noblewoman of Iranian or Sogdian origin who became a queen of the Seleucid Empire as the wife of Seleucus I Nicator and mother of Antiochus I.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apama I canonical | 3 |
| Apama II | 1 |
| Apama of Sogdia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6377371 — 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: Apama I Context triple: [Antiochus I, mother, Apama I]
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A.
Apama III
Apama III was a Hellenistic queen of Bithynia and member of the Seleucid royal lineage, known primarily as the wife of King Prusias I.
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B.
Nitocris I
Nitocris I was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 26th Dynasty, known primarily as a daughter of Pharaoh Psamtik I.
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C.
Berenice I of Egypt
Berenice I of Egypt was a Macedonian noblewoman who became queen consort of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the matriarch of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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D.
Queen Amanirenas
Queen Amanirenas was a powerful Kushite ruler of the Kingdom of Meroë, best known for leading a successful military resistance against Roman expansion in Nubia in the late 1st century BCE.
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E.
Julia Soaemias
Julia Soaemias was a Roman noblewoman and influential mother of Emperor Elagabalus, playing a key political role during the Severan dynasty.
- 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: Apama I Target entity description: Apama I was a noblewoman of Iranian or Sogdian origin who became a queen of the Seleucid Empire as the wife of Seleucus I Nicator and mother of Antiochus I.
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A.
Apama III
Apama III was a Hellenistic queen of Bithynia and member of the Seleucid royal lineage, known primarily as the wife of King Prusias I.
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B.
Nitocris I
Nitocris I was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 26th Dynasty, known primarily as a daughter of Pharaoh Psamtik I.
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C.
Berenice I of Egypt
Berenice I of Egypt was a Macedonian noblewoman who became queen consort of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the matriarch of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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D.
Queen Amanirenas
Queen Amanirenas was a powerful Kushite ruler of the Kingdom of Meroë, best known for leading a successful military resistance against Roman expansion in Nubia in the late 1st century BCE.
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E.
Julia Soaemias
Julia Soaemias was a Roman noblewoman and influential mother of Emperor Elagabalus, playing a key political role during the Severan dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
noblewoman ⓘ queen consort ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hellenistic period
ⓘ
Seleucid court ⓘ |
| child |
Antiochus I Soter
ⓘ
linked to:
Antiochus I
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Seleucid Empire ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
Iranian
ⓘ
Sogdian ⓘ |
| floruit |
early 3rd century BC
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late 4th century BC ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mother |
Antiochus I Soter
ⓘ
linked to:
Antiochus I
|
| nameInGreek | Ἀπάμα ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Seleucid dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Seleucid kings
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| notableWork | founding member of the Seleucid royal house through marriage ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hellenistic monarchies
ⓘ
linked to:
Hellenistic kingdoms
|
| positionHeld | Queen of the Seleucid Empire ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
Alexander the Great (through the Diadochi)
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linked to:
Alexander the Great
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| spouse | Seleucus I Nicator ⓘ |
| spouseOfMonarch | Seleucus I Nicator ⓘ |
| spouseTitle | Basileus of the Seleucid Empire ⓘ |
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: Apama I Description of subject: Apama I was a noblewoman of Iranian or Sogdian origin who became a queen of the Seleucid Empire as the wife of Seleucus I Nicator and mother of Antiochus I.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Apama I
linked to: Apama I