Ptolemy XII Auletes
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Ptolemy XII Auletes was a Ptolemaic pharaoh of Egypt best known as the father of Cleopatra VII and for his politically turbulent, Roman-dependent reign in the 1st century BCE.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ptolemy XII Auletes canonical | 14 |
| Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1906558 — 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: Ptolemy XII Auletes Context triple: [Cleopatra VII, father, Ptolemy XII Auletes]
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A.
Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator
Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator was a young Ptolemaic pharaoh of Egypt best known for his turbulent co-rule and civil war with his sister Cleopatra VII in the 1st century BCE.
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B.
Ptolemy VIII Physcon
Ptolemy VIII Physcon was a controversial and often brutal Hellenistic king of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt, known for his turbulent reign marked by dynastic conflicts and political intrigue.
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C.
Ptolemy XIV
Ptolemy XIV was a young Ptolemaic pharaoh of Egypt and brother-husband of Cleopatra VII who briefly shared the throne with her before being supplanted by Caesarion.
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D.
Ptolemy V Epiphanes
Ptolemy V Epiphanes was a Hellenistic king of Egypt from the Ptolemaic dynasty, known for his tumultuous reign marked by internal revolts and foreign invasions, and for being commemorated on the Rosetta Stone.
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E.
Ptolemy VI Philometor
Ptolemy VI Philometor was a Hellenistic king of Egypt from the Ptolemaic dynasty whose reign was marked by dynastic conflicts, Roman intervention, and wars with the Seleucid Empire.
- 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: Ptolemy XII Auletes Target entity description: Ptolemy XII Auletes was a Ptolemaic pharaoh of Egypt best known as the father of Cleopatra VII and for his politically turbulent, Roman-dependent reign in the 1st century BCE.
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A.
Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator
Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator was a young Ptolemaic pharaoh of Egypt best known for his turbulent co-rule and civil war with his sister Cleopatra VII in the 1st century BCE.
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B.
Ptolemy VIII Physcon
Ptolemy VIII Physcon was a controversial and often brutal Hellenistic king of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt, known for his turbulent reign marked by dynastic conflicts and political intrigue.
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C.
Ptolemy XIV
Ptolemy XIV was a young Ptolemaic pharaoh of Egypt and brother-husband of Cleopatra VII who briefly shared the throne with her before being supplanted by Caesarion.
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D.
Ptolemy V Epiphanes
Ptolemy V Epiphanes was a Hellenistic king of Egypt from the Ptolemaic dynasty, known for his tumultuous reign marked by internal revolts and foreign invasions, and for being commemorated on the Rosetta Stone.
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E.
Ptolemy VI Philometor
Ptolemy VI Philometor was a Hellenistic king of Egypt from the Ptolemaic dynasty whose reign was marked by dynastic conflicts, Roman intervention, and wars with the Seleucid Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Ptolemy XII Auletes Description of subject: Ptolemy XII Auletes was a Ptolemaic pharaoh of Egypt best known as the father of Cleopatra VII and for his politically turbulent, Roman-dependent reign in the 1st century BCE.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos
subject surface form:
Temple of Kom Ombo
this entity surface form:
Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos
this entity surface form:
Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos
this entity surface form:
Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos