Obodas III
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Obodas III was a king of Nabatea who ruled in the late 1st century BCE and oversaw a period of relative stability and prosperity for the kingdom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Obodas III canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3311161 — 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: Obodas III Context triple: [Aretas IV of Nabatea, predecessor, Obodas III]
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A.
Cambyses II
Cambyses II was a king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, best known for succeeding Cyrus the Great and conquering Egypt in the 6th century BCE.
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B.
Cambyses I
Cambyses I was a 6th-century BCE king of Anshan and an early Achaemenid ruler best known as the father of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire.
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C.
Vaballathus
Vaballathus was a 3rd-century Palmyrene prince and briefly recognized Roman imperial claimant who ruled alongside his mother Zenobia during the Palmyrene Empire’s expansion before being defeated by Emperor Aurelian.
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D.
Phraortes
Phraortes was an early king of the Medes who expanded Median power and is traditionally credited with helping lay the foundations of the Median Empire in ancient Iran.
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E.
Psamtik III
Psamtik III was the last pharaoh of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty, whose brief reign ended with the Persian conquest under Cambyses II.
- 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: Obodas III Target entity description: Obodas III was a king of Nabatea who ruled in the late 1st century BCE and oversaw a period of relative stability and prosperity for the kingdom.
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A.
Cambyses II
Cambyses II was a king of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, best known for succeeding Cyrus the Great and conquering Egypt in the 6th century BCE.
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B.
Cambyses I
Cambyses I was a 6th-century BCE king of Anshan and an early Achaemenid ruler best known as the father of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire.
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C.
Vaballathus
Vaballathus was a 3rd-century Palmyrene prince and briefly recognized Roman imperial claimant who ruled alongside his mother Zenobia during the Palmyrene Empire’s expansion before being defeated by Emperor Aurelian.
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D.
Phraortes
Phraortes was an early king of the Medes who expanded Median power and is traditionally credited with helping lay the foundations of the Median Empire in ancient Iran.
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E.
Psamtik III
Psamtik III was the last pharaoh of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty, whose brief reign ended with the Persian conquest under Cambyses II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nabataean king
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ |
| allyOf | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Nabataean trade networks
ⓘ
incense trade ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Avdat National Park
ⓘ
surface form:
Avdat
|
| capital | Petra ⓘ |
| chronologicalOrder | third Nabataean king named Obodas ⓘ |
| coinage | Nabataean coinage bearing his name ⓘ |
| contemporaryWith | Herod the Great ⓘ |
| country |
Nabataean kingdom
ⓘ
surface form:
Nabataean Kingdom
|
| culture |
Nabataean
ⓘ
surface form:
Nabataean culture
|
| deathPlace | likely Petra region ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Nabataean kingdom
ⓘ
surface form:
Nabataean royal house
|
| era | late 1st century BCE ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Nabataean
ⓘ
surface form:
Nabataeans
|
| father | Malichus I ⓘ |
| hasNameInGreek | Obodas ⓘ |
| knownFor |
maintaining peaceful relations with Rome
ⓘ
ruling during a period of stability and prosperity in Nabatea ⓘ |
| language | Nabataean Aramaic ⓘ |
| notableEvent | peaceful succession by Aretas IV ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | Roman client king ⓘ |
| positionHeld | King of Nabatea ⓘ |
| predecessor | Malichus I ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Negev desert
ⓘ
surface form:
Negev
Transjordan ⓘ northwestern Arabia ⓘ |
| reignEnd | c. 9 BCE ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 30 BCE ⓘ |
| religion | Nabataean polytheism ⓘ |
| spouse | Huldu ⓘ |
| successor | Aretas IV ⓘ |
| successorStateRelation | client kingdom of Rome ⓘ |
| title |
King of Nabatea
ⓘ
surface form:
King of the Nabataeans
|
| veneratedAs | deity at Avdat ⓘ |
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: Obodas III Description of subject: Obodas III was a king of Nabatea who ruled in the late 1st century BCE and oversaw a period of relative stability and prosperity for the kingdom.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.