Miloš Obilić (traditional account)
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Miloš Obilić (traditional account) is a legendary Serbian knight celebrated in epic poetry as the slayer of Ottoman Sultan Murad I at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Miloš Obilić (linked through Kosovo myth and Lazar’s court) | 1 |
| Miloš Obilić (traditional account) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T932652 — 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: Miloš Obilić (traditional account) Context triple: [Murad I, killedBy, Miloš Obilić (traditional account)]
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A.
Dragiša Cvetković
Dragiša Cvetković was a Yugoslav politician who served as prime minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for signing the Cvetković–Maček Agreement and for his government’s alignment with the Axis powers before World War II.
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B.
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević was a Serbian and Yugoslav political leader and president whose nationalist policies and role in the Yugoslav Wars made him a central and highly controversial figure in the breakup of Yugoslavia and later a defendant at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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C.
Ilija Trojanow
Ilija Trojanow is a Bulgarian-born German writer, translator, and publisher known for his travel literature, novels, and essays that often explore themes of migration, cultural identity, and globalization.
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D.
Mihajlo
Mihajlo is the Serbian given name of Michael I. Pupin, the renowned Serbian-American physicist, inventor, and Columbia University professor.
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E.
Miloš Marić
Miloš Marić was the brother of Serbian physicist Mileva Marić, who was Albert Einstein’s first wife and scientific collaborator.
- 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: Miloš Obilić (traditional account) Target entity description: Miloš Obilić (traditional account) is a legendary Serbian knight celebrated in epic poetry as the slayer of Ottoman Sultan Murad I at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.
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A.
Dragiša Cvetković
Dragiša Cvetković was a Yugoslav politician who served as prime minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for signing the Cvetković–Maček Agreement and for his government’s alignment with the Axis powers before World War II.
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B.
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević was a Serbian and Yugoslav political leader and president whose nationalist policies and role in the Yugoslav Wars made him a central and highly controversial figure in the breakup of Yugoslavia and later a defendant at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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C.
Ilija Trojanow
Ilija Trojanow is a Bulgarian-born German writer, translator, and publisher known for his travel literature, novels, and essays that often explore themes of migration, cultural identity, and globalization.
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D.
Mihajlo
Mihajlo is the Serbian given name of Michael I. Pupin, the renowned Serbian-American physicist, inventor, and Columbia University professor.
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E.
Miloš Marić
Miloš Marić was the brother of Serbian physicist Mileva Marić, who was Albert Einstein’s first wife and scientific collaborator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Serbian epic hero
ⓘ
folk hero ⓘ knight ⓘ legendary figure ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Lazar Hrebeljanović
ⓘ
surface form:
Prince Lazar
|
| associatedEvent | Serbian–Ottoman wars ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Kosovo
ⓘ
Serbia ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kosovo myth
ⓘ
Serbian national identity ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution after assassination of Murad I ⓘ |
| centralThemeIn |
Gusle-performed epic songs
ⓘ
Serbian oral tradition ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)
ⓘ
surface form:
Medieval Serbia
|
| culture | Serbian culture ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1389 ⓘ |
| depictedAs |
embodiment of courage
ⓘ
embodiment of loyalty ⓘ ideal Christian knight ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Serbs ⓘ |
| genre | epic poetry character ⓘ |
| hasRole | vassal of Prince Lazar ⓘ |
| hasVariantName |
Miloš Kobilić
ⓘ
surface form:
Miloš Kobila
Miloš Kobilić ⓘ |
| historicity | semi-legendary ⓘ |
| influenced |
Serbian literature
ⓘ
Serbian music ⓘ Serbian national mythology ⓘ Serbian visual arts ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in battle ⓘ |
| militaryRank | knight ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
assassin of the sultan
ⓘ
avenger of Serbia ⓘ martyr ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | killing of Sultan Murad I ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Battle of Kosovo 1389
ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of Kosovo
|
| notableWork | Serbian epic poetry ⓘ |
| opponent | Murad I ⓘ |
| partOf | Kosovo cycle of Serbian epic poetry ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Kosovo Field ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
19th-century Serbian Romantic literature
ⓘ
modern Serbian historical dramas ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageOfTradition | Serbian ⓘ |
| religion | Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ |
| sourceType | oral tradition ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
Serbian patriotism
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heroic sacrifice ⓘ resistance to Ottoman rule ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 14th century ⓘ |
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: Miloš Obilić (traditional account) Description of subject: Miloš Obilić (traditional account) is a legendary Serbian knight celebrated in epic poetry as the slayer of Ottoman Sultan Murad I at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.