Alexander IV of Macedon
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Alexander IV of Macedon was the posthumous son of Alexander the Great who briefly held the title of king of Macedon during the turbulent Wars of the Diadochi before being assassinated.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander IV of Macedon canonical | 15 |
| Alexander IV | 1 |
| Ἀλέξανδρος Δ΄ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T592367 — 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: Alexander IV of Macedon Context triple: [Alexander the Great, successor, Alexander IV of Macedon]
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Philip III Arrhidaeus
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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B.
Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon was the 4th-century BCE king who transformed Macedonia into a dominant military power and laid the foundations for his son Alexander the Great’s vast empire.
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Alexander
Alexander is a common male given name of Greek origin, meaning "defender of men."
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Spartan king Pleistoanax
Spartan king Pleistoanax was a 5th-century BCE Agiad ruler of Sparta known for his controversial leadership, including a peace-oriented policy toward Athens that led to his temporary exile.
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E.
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great was a 4th-century BCE king of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history and spread Greek culture across the Near East.
- 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: Alexander IV of Macedon Target entity description: Alexander IV of Macedon was the posthumous son of Alexander the Great who briefly held the title of king of Macedon during the turbulent Wars of the Diadochi before being assassinated.
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A.
Philip III Arrhidaeus
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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B.
Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon was the 4th-century BCE king who transformed Macedonia into a dominant military power and laid the foundations for his son Alexander the Great’s vast empire.
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C.
Alexander
Alexander is a common male given name of Greek origin, meaning "defender of men."
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D.
Spartan king Pleistoanax
Spartan king Pleistoanax was a 5th-century BCE Agiad ruler of Sparta known for his controversial leadership, including a peace-oriented policy toward Athens that led to his temporary exile.
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E.
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great was a 4th-century BCE king of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history and spread Greek culture across the Near East.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Alexander IV of Macedon Description of subject: Alexander IV of Macedon was the posthumous son of Alexander the Great who briefly held the title of king of Macedon during the turbulent Wars of the Diadochi before being assassinated.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alexander IV
this entity surface form:
Ἀλέξανδρος Δ΄
subject surface form:
Alexander IV of Macedon