Laodice of Macedonia

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Hellenistic-era figure noblewoman

Laodice of Macedonia was a Hellenistic-era noblewoman, likely of Macedonian or Seleucid royal connection, after whom the ancient city that became modern Latakia was named.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Laodice (daughter of Seleucus I) 1
Laodice of Macedonia canonical 1

Statements (26)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hellenistic-era figure ⓘ
noblewoman ⓘ
associatedDynasty Seleucid Empire ⓘ
cityNamedAfterHer Laodicea in Syria ⓘ
modern Latakia ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship Macedon ⓘ
culture Hellenistic Greek ⓘ
eponymOf Laodicea in Syria ⓘ
Latakia ⓘ
era 3rd century BCE (approximate) ⓘ
ethnicGroup Macedonians ⓘ
surface form: Macedonian
hasNameEtymology Greek name meaning "people of justice" (approximate etymology of Laodike) ⓘ
historicalRole royal or aristocratic namesake for a Seleucid foundation city ⓘ
historicalStatus poorly attested ⓘ
knownFrom ancient historical tradition ⓘ
toponymic evidence ⓘ
nameForm Laodice ⓘ
surface form: Laodike
nameLanguage Ancient Greek ⓘ
notableFor being eponym of the city Laodicea in Syria ⓘ
occupation royal consort (uncertain) ⓘ
possibleAffiliation Macedonian dynasty ⓘ
surface form: Macedonian royal family

Seleucid Empire ⓘ
surface form: Seleucid dynasty
regionAssociatedWith Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
Syria ⓘ
sexOrGender female ⓘ
timePeriod Hellenistic period ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Laodice of Macedonia
Description of subject: Laodice of Macedonia was a Hellenistic-era noblewoman, likely of Macedonian or Seleucid royal connection, after whom the ancient city that became modern Latakia was named.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Latakia → namedAfter → Laodice of Macedonia ⓘ
Seleucus I Nicator → child → Laodice of Macedonia ⓘ
this entity surface form: Laodice (daughter of Seleucus I)