Adherbal
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Adherbal was a Carthaginian admiral and military commander best known for leading Carthaginian naval forces during the First Punic War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adherbal canonical | 2 |
| Adherbal of Carthage | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8950005 — 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: Adherbal Context triple: [Battle of Drepanum, commandedBy (Carthaginian side), Adherbal]
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A.
Syphax
Syphax was a Numidian king who played a major role in the Second Punic War, notably opposing Rome alongside Carthage before ultimately being defeated and captured.
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B.
Jugurtha
Jugurtha was a king of Numidia best known for his protracted war against Rome in the late 2nd century BCE, which exposed widespread corruption in the Roman Republic.
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C.
Teuta
Teuta was a powerful Illyrian queen of the 3rd century BCE known for her naval power and conflicts with the Roman Republic.
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D.
King of Numidia
The King of Numidia was the monarch of the ancient North African kingdom of Numidia, a Berber state that played a pivotal role in Mediterranean politics during the Punic and Roman wars.
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E.
Orgetorix
Orgetorix was a powerful Helvetian noble and conspirator in the 1st century BCE who led an ambitious but ultimately thwarted attempt to organize his tribe’s mass migration and seize greater power in Gaul.
- 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: Adherbal Target entity description: Adherbal was a Carthaginian admiral and military commander best known for leading Carthaginian naval forces during the First Punic War.
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A.
Syphax
Syphax was a Numidian king who played a major role in the Second Punic War, notably opposing Rome alongside Carthage before ultimately being defeated and captured.
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B.
Jugurtha
Jugurtha was a king of Numidia best known for his protracted war against Rome in the late 2nd century BCE, which exposed widespread corruption in the Roman Republic.
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C.
Teuta
Teuta was a powerful Illyrian queen of the 3rd century BCE known for her naval power and conflicts with the Roman Republic.
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D.
King of Numidia
The King of Numidia was the monarch of the ancient North African kingdom of Numidia, a Berber state that played a pivotal role in Mediterranean politics during the Punic and Roman wars.
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E.
Orgetorix
Orgetorix was a powerful Helvetian noble and conspirator in the 1st century BCE who led an ambitious but ultimately thwarted attempt to organize his tribe’s mass migration and seize greater power in Gaul.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Carthaginian admiral
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historical figure ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity | Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| citizenship | Carthage ⓘ |
| conflict | First Punic War ⓘ |
| culture | Punic ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Carthage–Rome rivalry in the western Mediterranean
ⓘ
linked to:
Punic Wars
|
| knownAs | Adherbal the Carthaginian admiral ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Punic ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Carthaginian navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | admiral ⓘ |
| notableEvent | naval operations against Rome in the First Punic War ⓘ |
| notableFor | commanding Carthaginian naval forces in the First Punic War ⓘ |
| occupation |
naval officer
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soldier ⓘ |
| opponent | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| role | naval commander ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Carthage in the First Punic War ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 3rd century BC ⓘ |
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: Adherbal Description of subject: Adherbal was a Carthaginian admiral and military commander best known for leading Carthaginian naval forces during the First Punic War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Adherbal