Philip III Arrhidaeus
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Philip III Arrhidaeus was the half-brother of Alexander the Great who briefly served as a nominal king of Macedon after Alexander’s death, while real power was held by his regents.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philip III Arrhidaeus canonical | 16 |
| Arrhidaeus | 1 |
| Arrhidaeus (Philip III) | 1 |
| Arrhidaeus (of Macedon) | 1 |
| Philip Arrhidaeus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T592366 — 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: Philip III Arrhidaeus Context triple: [Alexander the Great, successor, Philip III Arrhidaeus]
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A.
Euthydemus
Euthydemus is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that satirically examines sophistry and the nature of wisdom through conversations between Socrates and two eristic brothers.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Antiochus III the Great
Antiochus III the Great was a Hellenistic Seleucid king who significantly expanded his empire across the Near East before ultimately being defeated by Rome.
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D.
Theokoleon
The Theokoleon is an ancient building complex at Olympia that served as the residence and headquarters of the priests of Zeus.
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E.
Prusias I of Bithynia
Prusias I of Bithynia was a Hellenistic king of Bithynia in northwestern Anatolia, known for his involvement in regional power struggles and for giving refuge to the Carthaginian general Hannibal.
- 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: Philip III Arrhidaeus Target entity description: Philip III Arrhidaeus was the half-brother of Alexander the Great who briefly served as a nominal king of Macedon after Alexander’s death, while real power was held by his regents.
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A.
Euthydemus
Euthydemus is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that satirically examines sophistry and the nature of wisdom through conversations between Socrates and two eristic brothers.
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B.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
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C.
Antiochus III the Great
Antiochus III the Great was a Hellenistic Seleucid king who significantly expanded his empire across the Near East before ultimately being defeated by Rome.
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D.
Theokoleon
The Theokoleon is an ancient building complex at Olympia that served as the residence and headquarters of the priests of Zeus.
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E.
Prusias I of Bithynia
Prusias I of Bithynia was a Hellenistic king of Bithynia in northwestern Anatolia, known for his involvement in regional power struggles and for giving refuge to the Carthaginian general Hannibal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Philip III Arrhidaeus Description of subject: Philip III Arrhidaeus was the half-brother of Alexander the Great who briefly served as a nominal king of Macedon after Alexander’s death, while real power was held by his regents.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Arrhidaeus
this entity surface form:
Philip Arrhidaeus
this entity surface form:
Arrhidaeus (of Macedon)
this entity surface form:
Arrhidaeus (Philip III)
subject surface form:
Alexander IV of Macedon