Antigonus II Mattathias
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Antigonus II Mattathias was the last Hasmonean king of Judea, known for his resistance to Roman domination before being deposed by Herod the Great.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Antigonus II Mattathias canonical | 10 |
| Antigonus (Hasmonean prince) | 1 |
| Antigonus the Hasmonean | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T742285 — 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: Antigonus II Mattathias Context triple: [Hasmonean dynasty, lastRuler, Antigonus II Mattathias]
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A.
Aristobulus II
Aristobulus II was a 1st-century BCE Hasmonean prince and high priest who briefly ruled Judea amid a dynastic civil war that led to Roman intervention and the end of Jewish independence.
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B.
Aristobulus I
Aristobulus I was a Hasmonean king of Judea in the 2nd century BCE, notable for being the first of the dynasty to assume the royal title and for expanding Jewish territory through military campaigns.
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C.
Alexander Jannaeus
Alexander Jannaeus was a Hasmonean king and high priest of Judea known for his territorial expansions and harsh rule during the late 2nd and early 1st centuries BCE.
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D.
Hyrcanus II
Hyrcanus II was a Hasmonean high priest and later ethnarch of Judea in the 1st century BCE, whose weak rule was overshadowed by internal family conflicts and the rising power of Rome.
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E.
John Hyrcanus I
John Hyrcanus I was a Hasmonean high priest and ruler of Judea in the late 2nd century BCE, known for expanding Jewish territory and consolidating political and religious authority.
- 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: Antigonus II Mattathias Target entity description: Antigonus II Mattathias was the last Hasmonean king of Judea, known for his resistance to Roman domination before being deposed by Herod the Great.
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A.
Aristobulus II
Aristobulus II was a 1st-century BCE Hasmonean prince and high priest who briefly ruled Judea amid a dynastic civil war that led to Roman intervention and the end of Jewish independence.
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B.
Aristobulus I
Aristobulus I was a Hasmonean king of Judea in the 2nd century BCE, notable for being the first of the dynasty to assume the royal title and for expanding Jewish territory through military campaigns.
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C.
Alexander Jannaeus
Alexander Jannaeus was a Hasmonean king and high priest of Judea known for his territorial expansions and harsh rule during the late 2nd and early 1st centuries BCE.
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D.
Hyrcanus II
Hyrcanus II was a Hasmonean high priest and later ethnarch of Judea in the 1st century BCE, whose weak rule was overshadowed by internal family conflicts and the rising power of Rome.
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E.
John Hyrcanus I
John Hyrcanus I was a Hasmonean high priest and ruler of Judea in the late 2nd century BCE, known for expanding Jewish territory and consolidating political and religious authority.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Antigonus II Mattathias Description of subject: Antigonus II Mattathias was the last Hasmonean king of Judea, known for his resistance to Roman domination before being deposed by Herod the Great.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Antigonus the Hasmonean
this entity surface form:
Antigonus (Hasmonean prince)