Ada of Caria
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Ada of Caria was a 4th-century BCE Carian princess and satrap, known for allying with Alexander the Great and being restored as ruler of Caria under his patronage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ada of Caria canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12817331 — 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: Ada of Caria Context triple: [Alinda, associatedWith, Ada of Caria]
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A.
Lydia of Croesus
Lydia of Croesus was the ancient kingdom in western Anatolia ruled by King Croesus, famed for its immense wealth and early use of coinage.
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B.
Queen of Lydia
The Queen of Lydia is the legendary monarch of the ancient Anatolian kingdom of Lydia, best known in myth as Omphale, who famously enslaved and reversed traditional gender roles with the hero Heracles.
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C.
Artemisia II of Caria
Artemisia II of Caria was a 4th-century BCE Carian queen and satrap renowned for commissioning the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, in honor of her husband-brother Mausolus.
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D.
Artemisia I of Caria
Artemisia I of Caria was a 5th-century BCE queen and naval commander who notably fought on the Persian side during the Greco-Persian Wars.
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E.
Amytis of Media
Amytis of Media was a Median princess and queen of Babylon, traditionally associated with the legendary Hanging Gardens, which were said to have been built to remind her of her mountainous homeland.
- 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: Ada of Caria Target entity description: Ada of Caria was a 4th-century BCE Carian princess and satrap, known for allying with Alexander the Great and being restored as ruler of Caria under his patronage.
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A.
Lydia of Croesus
Lydia of Croesus was the ancient kingdom in western Anatolia ruled by King Croesus, famed for its immense wealth and early use of coinage.
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B.
Queen of Lydia
The Queen of Lydia is the legendary monarch of the ancient Anatolian kingdom of Lydia, best known in myth as Omphale, who famously enslaved and reversed traditional gender roles with the hero Heracles.
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C.
Artemisia II of Caria
Artemisia II of Caria was a 4th-century BCE Carian queen and satrap renowned for commissioning the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, in honor of her husband-brother Mausolus.
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D.
Artemisia I of Caria
Artemisia I of Caria was a 5th-century BCE queen and naval commander who notably fought on the Persian side during the Greco-Persian Wars.
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E.
Amytis of Media
Amytis of Media was a Median princess and queen of Babylon, traditionally associated with the legendary Hanging Gardens, which were said to have been built to remind her of her mountainous homeland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
4th-century BCE person
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historical figure ⓘ princess ⓘ ruler ⓘ satrap ⓘ |
| adopted | Alexander the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adoptionType | symbolic adoption as son and heir ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Achaemenid Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alexander the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allyOf | Alexander the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appointedHeir | Alexander the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Halicarnassus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| conflict | Achaemenid Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Caria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Greco-Carian ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Caria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Carian ⓘ |
| event | Siege of Halicarnassus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Hecatomnus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| governedTerritory | Caria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Campaigns of Alexander the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Classical Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
alliance with Alexander the Great
ⓘ
being restored as ruler of Caria by Alexander the Great ⓘ loyalty to Macedonian rule ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hecatomnid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ada of Caria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Hecatomnid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opponent |
Orontobates
NERFINISHED
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Pixodarus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
queen of Caria
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satrap of Caria ⓘ |
| predecessor | Idrieus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| restoredToPowerBy | Alexander the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ruledFrom | Halicarnassus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Artemisia II of Caria
NERFINISHED
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Idrieus NERFINISHED ⓘ Mausolus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Idrieus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Pixodarus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Queen of Caria
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Satrap of Caria ⓘ |
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: Ada of Caria Description of subject: Ada of Caria was a 4th-century BCE Carian princess and satrap, known for allying with Alexander the Great and being restored as ruler of Caria under his patronage.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.