Tigranes the Great
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Tigranes the Great was a powerful 1st-century BCE Armenian king who built a vast empire in the Near East and became one of Rome’s major adversaries.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tigranes II of Armenia | 4 |
| Tigranes the Great canonical | 4 |
| Tigranes | 2 |
| Tigranes II the Great | 2 |
| Armenia under Tigranes the Great | 1 |
| Tigranes II | 1 |
| Տիգրան Մեծ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3259289 — 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: Tigranes the Great Context triple: [Kingdom of Pontus, alliedWith, Tigranes the Great]
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A.
Tigranes
Tigranes was a Persian military commander who led Achaemenid forces against the Greeks at the Battle of Mycale in 479 BC.
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B.
Tiridates III of Armenia
Tiridates III of Armenia was a king of Armenia best known for adopting Christianity as the state religion in the early 4th century, making Armenia the first officially Christian nation.
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C.
Shalmaneser V
Shalmaneser V was a Neo-Assyrian king in the late 8th century BCE, best known for his military campaigns in the Levant and the siege of Samaria that led to the fall of the Kingdom of Israel.
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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.
Mithridates VI Eupator
Mithridates VI Eupator was a powerful 1st-century BCE king of Pontus, famed for his fierce resistance to Roman expansion in the Mithridatic Wars and his legendary experiments with poisons and antidotes.
- 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: Tigranes the Great Target entity description: Tigranes the Great was a powerful 1st-century BCE Armenian king who built a vast empire in the Near East and became one of Rome’s major adversaries.
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A.
Tigranes
Tigranes was a Persian military commander who led Achaemenid forces against the Greeks at the Battle of Mycale in 479 BC.
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B.
Tiridates III of Armenia
Tiridates III of Armenia was a king of Armenia best known for adopting Christianity as the state religion in the early 4th century, making Armenia the first officially Christian nation.
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C.
Shalmaneser V
Shalmaneser V was a Neo-Assyrian king in the late 8th century BCE, best known for his military campaigns in the Levant and the siege of Samaria that led to the fall of the Kingdom of Israel.
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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.
Mithridates VI Eupator
Mithridates VI Eupator was a powerful 1st-century BCE king of Pontus, famed for his fierce resistance to Roman expansion in the Mithridatic Wars and his legendary experiments with poisons and antidotes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Tigranes the Great Description of subject: Tigranes the Great was a powerful 1st-century BCE Armenian king who built a vast empire in the Near East and became one of Rome’s major adversaries.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tigranes II of Armenia
this entity surface form:
Tigranes II the Great
this entity surface form:
Tigranes II of Armenia
this entity surface form:
Tigranes II the Great
this entity surface form:
Tigranes II of Armenia
this entity surface form:
Armenia under Tigranes the Great
this entity surface form:
Tigranes
this entity surface form:
Tigranes II
this entity surface form:
Տիգրան Մեծ
this entity surface form:
Tigranes
this entity surface form:
Tigranes II of Armenia