Athalaric
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Athalaric was an early 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths in Italy, known for his short and troubled reign as the grandson and successor of Theodoric the Great.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Athalaric canonical | 3 |
| Amalasuntha | 1 |
| Ostrogothic King Athalaric | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3247942 — 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: Athalaric Context triple: [Ostrogothic Kingdom, notableRuler, Athalaric]
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A.
Theodoric II
Theodoric II was a 5th-century king of the Visigoths who ruled from Gaul and Hispania and played a major role in Western Roman politics during the empire’s decline.
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B.
Tacenwit
Tacenwit is an alternative name for the Shenwa language, a Zenati Berber language spoken in northern Algeria.
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C.
Theodoric I
Theodoric I was a 5th-century king of the Visigoths best known for his role in opposing Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains and for shaping early Visigothic power in Gaul.
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D.
Recceswinth
Recceswinth was a 7th-century king of the Visigoths in Hispania, known for consolidating royal authority and promulgating the influential Visigothic Law Code (Liber Iudiciorum).
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E.
Valentinian III
Valentinian III was a 5th-century Western Roman emperor whose long but troubled reign was marked by internal power struggles and the empire’s accelerating decline in the West.
- 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: Athalaric Target entity description: Athalaric was an early 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths in Italy, known for his short and troubled reign as the grandson and successor of Theodoric the Great.
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A.
Theodoric II
Theodoric II was a 5th-century king of the Visigoths who ruled from Gaul and Hispania and played a major role in Western Roman politics during the empire’s decline.
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B.
Tacenwit
Tacenwit is an alternative name for the Shenwa language, a Zenati Berber language spoken in northern Algeria.
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C.
Theodoric I
Theodoric I was a 5th-century king of the Visigoths best known for his role in opposing Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains and for shaping early Visigothic power in Gaul.
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D.
Recceswinth
Recceswinth was a 7th-century king of the Visigoths in Hispania, known for consolidating royal authority and promulgating the influential Visigothic Law Code (Liber Iudiciorum).
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E.
Valentinian III
Valentinian III was a 5th-century Western Roman emperor whose long but troubled reign was marked by internal power struggles and the empire’s accelerating decline in the West.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Athalaric Description of subject: Athalaric was an early 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths in Italy, known for his short and troubled reign as the grandson and successor of Theodoric the Great.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ostrogothic King Athalaric
this entity surface form:
Amalasuntha