Cyrus
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Cyrus is a masculine given name of Persian origin historically associated with several notable rulers, including Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cyrus canonical | 3 |
| King of the Medes | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13118136 — 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: Cyrus Context triple: [Cyrus Hamlin, givenName, Cyrus]
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A.
Cyrus
Cyrus is the surname of the American entertainment family that includes pop star and actress Miley Cyrus.
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B.
Cyrus
Cyrus is a 2010 indie comedy-drama film starring Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly, and Marisa Tomei, centered on an awkward love triangle complicated by an overprotective adult son.
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C.
Cyrus
Cyrus is a central protagonist in the TV series "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland," portrayed as a genie and the love interest of Alice.
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D.
Cyrus
Cyrus is the charismatic gang leader whose vision of uniting New York City's street gangs drives the central conflict in the cult film "The Warriors."
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E.
Cyrus I
Cyrus I was an early Achaemenid ruler of the ancient Persian kingdom of Anshan and a likely ancestor of Cyrus the Great.
- 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: Cyrus Target entity description: Cyrus is a masculine given name of Persian origin historically associated with several notable rulers, including Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire.
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A.
Cyrus
Cyrus is the surname of the American entertainment family that includes pop star and actress Miley Cyrus.
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B.
Cyrus
Cyrus is a 2010 indie comedy-drama film starring Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly, and Marisa Tomei, centered on an awkward love triangle complicated by an overprotective adult son.
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C.
Cyrus
Cyrus is a central protagonist in the TV series "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland," portrayed as a genie and the love interest of Alice.
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D.
Cyrus
Cyrus is the charismatic gang leader whose vision of uniting New York City's street gangs drives the central conflict in the cult film "The Warriors."
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E.
Cyrus I
Cyrus I was an early Achaemenid ruler of the ancient Persian kingdom of Anshan and a likely ancestor of Cyrus the Great.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Persian given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Achaemenid Empire
NERFINISHED
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Cyrus the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Masculine given names
ⓘ
Persian masculine given names ⓘ |
| etymologyDerivedFrom | Old Persian name Kūruš ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalAssociation |
Achaemenid dynasty
NERFINISHED
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ancient Persia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
possibly "far-sighted"
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possibly "sun" ⓘ possibly "throne" ⓘ |
| hasNameDay | varies by country ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
Old Persian
NERFINISHED
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Persian language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSignificance |
Christianity
NERFINISHED
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Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Ciro
NERFINISHED
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Cyrus (Latinized form) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kourosh NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurosh NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCognateOf |
Kourosh
NERFINISHED
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Kyros NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linguisticAdaptation |
Greek "Kyros"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Latin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Tanakh
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surface form:
Hebrew Bible
New Testament ⓘ Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| notableBearer |
Cyrus (New Testament figure)
NERFINISHED
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Cyrus (character in "Warriors" film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus Beene (character in "Scandal") NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus Broacha NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus Chestnut NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus H. Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus I of Anshan NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus II of Persia NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus Lupo (character in "Law & Order") NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus Mistry NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus Sahukar NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus Vance NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyrus the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transliterationOf | Kūruš NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
English-speaking countries
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Persian culture ⓘ Western cultures ⓘ |
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: Cyrus Description of subject: Cyrus is a masculine given name of Persian origin historically associated with several notable rulers, including Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King of the Medes
this entity surface form:
King of the Medes
this entity surface form:
King of the Medes