Dārayavauš
E245985
Dārayavauš is the Old Persian name of Darius I, the powerful Achaemenid king who ruled the Persian Empire at its territorial height in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dārayava(h)uš | 1 |
| Dārayavaush | 1 |
| Dārayavauš canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2220811 — 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: Dārayavauš Context triple: [Darius I of Persia, nativeName, Dārayavauš]
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A.
Serse
Serse is a comic opera by George Frideric Handel, best known for its famous aria "Ombra mai fu."
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B.
Dinarzad
Dinarzad is a character in The Arabian Nights, known as Shahrazad’s younger sister who prompts her to tell stories each night to the king.
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C.
Bardiya
Bardiya was a son of the Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great who briefly and controversially claimed the Persian throne in the late 6th century BCE.
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D.
Argishti I
Argishti I was a powerful 8th-century BCE king of Urartu known for expanding the kingdom’s territory, founding the fortress city of Erebuni (modern Yerevan), and commissioning extensive building and irrigation projects.
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E.
Laodamas
Laodamas is a prince in Greek mythology, best known as the favored son of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer's Odyssey.
- 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: Dārayavauš Target entity description: Dārayavauš is the Old Persian name of Darius I, the powerful Achaemenid king who ruled the Persian Empire at its territorial height in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE.
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A.
Serse
Serse is a comic opera by George Frideric Handel, best known for its famous aria "Ombra mai fu."
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B.
Dinarzad
Dinarzad is a character in The Arabian Nights, known as Shahrazad’s younger sister who prompts her to tell stories each night to the king.
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C.
Bardiya
Bardiya was a son of the Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great who briefly and controversially claimed the Persian throne in the late 6th century BCE.
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D.
Argishti I
Argishti I was a powerful 8th-century BCE king of Urartu known for expanding the kingdom’s territory, founding the fortress city of Erebuni (modern Yerevan), and commissioning extensive building and irrigation projects.
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E.
Laodamas
Laodamas is a prince in Greek mythology, best known as the favored son of King Alcinous of the Phaeacians in Homer's Odyssey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Achaemenid king
ⓘ
Old Persian personal name ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedCentury |
5th century BCE
ⓘ
6th century BCE ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | Achaemenid Empire ⓘ |
| associatedRegion |
Achaemenid Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Persian Empire
|
| associatedTitle | King of Kings ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeriod | c. 522–486 BCE ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion |
Zoroastrianism
ⓘ
surface form:
Zoroastrian tradition (Achaemenid royal ideology)
|
| attestedIn | Behistun Inscription ⓘ |
| category |
Old Iranian names
ⓘ
Royal names in the Achaemenid Empire ⓘ |
| correspondsToAkkadianForm | Dārayamūš ⓘ |
| correspondsToElamiteForm | Dar-ya-ma-u-iš (attested variant) ⓘ |
| correspondsToGreekName |
Darius I of Persia
ⓘ
surface form:
Δαρεῖος (Dareios)
|
| hasVariantSpelling |
Darius
ⓘ
surface form:
Darayavahush
Dārayavauš self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Dārayavaush
|
| heldBy |
Darius I of Persia
ⓘ
surface form:
Darius I, third king of the Achaemenid Empire
|
| language | Old Persian ⓘ |
| latinizedAs | Darius ⓘ |
| linkedPerson |
Cyrus the Great (predecessor’s family line)
ⓘ
Hystaspes ⓘ
surface form:
Hystaspes (father of Darius I)
Xerxes I ⓘ
surface form:
Xerxes I (successor and son of Darius I)
|
| meaning | “he who holds firm the good” (traditional etymology) ⓘ |
| nameOf |
Darius I of Persia
ⓘ
surface form:
Darius I
|
| refersTo |
Darius I of Persia
ⓘ
surface form:
Darius I, son of Hystaspes
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| reignOf | Darius I of Persia ⓘ |
| script | Old Persian cuneiform ⓘ |
| transliteratedAs |
Dārayavauš
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Dārayava(h)uš
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| usedBy | Darius I to refer to himself in royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| usedInContext | royal inscriptions and monumental texts ⓘ |
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: Dārayavauš Description of subject: Dārayavauš is the Old Persian name of Darius I, the powerful Achaemenid king who ruled the Persian Empire at its territorial height in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BCE.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dārayava(h)uš
this entity surface form:
Dārayavaush