Hecatomnus of Mylasa
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Hecatomnus of Mylasa was a 4th-century BCE Carian dynast who founded the Hecatomnid dynasty and ruled Caria under the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hecatomnus | 2 |
| Hecatomnus of Mylasa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12817278 — 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: Hecatomnus of Mylasa Context triple: [Mylasa, notableRuler, Hecatomnus of Mylasa]
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A.
Alyattes II
Alyattes II was a 6th-century BCE king of Lydia best known for consolidating Lydian power in western Anatolia and being the father of the famed king Croesus.
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B.
Martin Hylacomylus
Martin Hylacomylus is the Latinized name of Martin Waldseemüller, the early 16th-century German cartographer best known for producing the first map to use the name "America."
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C.
Pharnabazus II
Pharnabazus II was a 4th-century BC Persian satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia who played a key role in Achaemenid military and diplomatic efforts against Sparta, notably by supporting Athens and its allies.
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D.
Eumenes I of Pergamon
Eumenes I of Pergamon was a 3rd-century BC ruler of the Attalid dynasty who significantly expanded Pergamon’s power and autonomy within the Hellenistic world.
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E.
Attalus I of Pergamon
Attalus I of Pergamon was a Hellenistic ruler and the first king of Pergamon, known for his military victories over the Galatians and for establishing Pergamon as a significant power in Asia Minor.
- 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: Hecatomnus of Mylasa Target entity description: Hecatomnus of Mylasa was a 4th-century BCE Carian dynast who founded the Hecatomnid dynasty and ruled Caria under the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
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A.
Alyattes II
Alyattes II was a 6th-century BCE king of Lydia best known for consolidating Lydian power in western Anatolia and being the father of the famed king Croesus.
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B.
Martin Hylacomylus
Martin Hylacomylus is the Latinized name of Martin Waldseemüller, the early 16th-century German cartographer best known for producing the first map to use the name "America."
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C.
Pharnabazus II
Pharnabazus II was a 4th-century BC Persian satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia who played a key role in Achaemenid military and diplomatic efforts against Sparta, notably by supporting Athens and its allies.
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D.
Eumenes I of Pergamon
Eumenes I of Pergamon was a 3rd-century BC ruler of the Attalid dynasty who significantly expanded Pergamon’s power and autonomy within the Hellenistic world.
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E.
Attalus I of Pergamon
Attalus I of Pergamon was a Hellenistic ruler and the first king of Pergamon, known for his military victories over the Galatians and for establishing Pergamon as a significant power in Asia Minor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Carian ruler
ⓘ
dynast ⓘ founder of a dynasty ⓘ satrap ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Artaxerxes II of Persia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Mylasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Mylasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Caria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf | Artaxerxes II of Persia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Caria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Carian ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 377 BCE ⓘ |
| dynastyFounded | Hecatomnid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Classical antiquity ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Carian ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Artemisia IΙ of Caria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Idrieus NERFINISHED ⓘ Mausolus NERFINISHED ⓘ Pixodarus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | early 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| founded | Hecatomnid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
ancient literary sources
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epigraphic evidence ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Carian language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greek language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| memberOfDynasty | Hecatomnid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Hecatomnus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | Ἑκατόμνος NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding the Hecatomnid dynasty in Caria
ⓘ
ruling Caria as a semi-autonomous satrap under Persia ⓘ |
| partOf | Achaemenid satrapal system ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Caria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
dynast of Caria
ⓘ
ruler of Caria ⓘ satrap of Caria ⓘ |
| predecessor | Tissaphernes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled | Caria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| residence | Mylasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ruledUnder | Achaemenid Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Unnamed Carian noblewoman ⓘ |
| successor | Mausolus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| territory |
southwestern Anatolia
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southwestern Asia Minor ⓘ |
| vassalOf | Achaemenid Persian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hecatomnus of Mylasa Description of subject: Hecatomnus of Mylasa was a 4th-century BCE Carian dynast who founded the Hecatomnid dynasty and ruled Caria under the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hecatomnus
this entity surface form:
Hecatomnus