Juba I of Numidia
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Juba I of Numidia was a 1st-century BC king of Numidia in North Africa, known for his alliance with Pompey against Julius Caesar and his eventual defeat and suicide after the Battle of Thapsus.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Juba I of Numidia canonical | 4 |
| King Juba I of Numidia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9422090 — 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: Juba I of Numidia Context triple: [Juba I, knownAs, Juba I of Numidia]
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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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B.
Adherbal
Adherbal was a Carthaginian admiral and military commander best known for leading Carthaginian naval forces during the First Punic War.
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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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Ptolemy of Mauretania
Ptolemy of Mauretania was a 1st-century AD Berber-Roman client king and the last ruler of the Mauretanian kingdom before its annexation by the Roman Empire.
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E.
Teuta
Teuta was a powerful Illyrian queen of the 3rd century BCE known for her naval power and conflicts with the Roman Republic.
- 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: Juba I of Numidia Target entity description: Juba I of Numidia was a 1st-century BC king of Numidia in North Africa, known for his alliance with Pompey against Julius Caesar and his eventual defeat and suicide after the Battle of Thapsus.
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A.
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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B.
Adherbal
Adherbal was a Carthaginian admiral and military commander best known for leading Carthaginian naval forces during the First Punic War.
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C.
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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D.
Ptolemy of Mauretania
Ptolemy of Mauretania was a 1st-century AD Berber-Roman client king and the last ruler of the Mauretanian kingdom before its annexation by the Roman Empire.
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E.
Teuta
Teuta was a powerful Illyrian queen of the 3rd century BCE known for her naval power and conflicts with the Roman Republic.
- 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: Juba I of Numidia Description of subject: Juba I of Numidia was a 1st-century BC king of Numidia in North Africa, known for his alliance with Pompey against Julius Caesar and his eventual defeat and suicide after the Battle of Thapsus.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.