Craterus
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Craterus was a prominent Macedonian general and close companion of Alexander the Great who played a key role in the Wars of the Diadochi following Alexander’s death.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Craterus canonical | 11 |
| Craterus the Younger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3507915 — 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: Craterus Context triple: [Diadochi, hasPart, Craterus]
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A.
Cassander of Macedon
Cassander of Macedon was a 4th-century BCE king who seized control of Macedonia after Alexander the Great’s death and is notorious for ordering the execution of Alexander’s widow Roxana and their son Alexander IV.
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B.
Protarchus
Protarchus is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Philebus," where he serves as a principal interlocutor debating the nature of pleasure and the good life.
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C.
Demetrios
Demetrios is a Greek given name historically borne by several notable Byzantine figures, including members of the Palaiologos dynasty.
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D.
Lysimachus
Lysimachus was a Macedonian general and one of Alexander the Great’s Diadochi who became king of Thrace, Asia Minor, and Macedon during the early Hellenistic period.
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E.
Lysimachus
Lysimachus is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Laches," depicted as an Athenian concerned with the moral and martial education of his sons.
- 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: Craterus Target entity description: Craterus was a prominent Macedonian general and close companion of Alexander the Great who played a key role in the Wars of the Diadochi following Alexander’s death.
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A.
Cassander of Macedon
Cassander of Macedon was a 4th-century BCE king who seized control of Macedonia after Alexander the Great’s death and is notorious for ordering the execution of Alexander’s widow Roxana and their son Alexander IV.
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B.
Protarchus
Protarchus is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Philebus," where he serves as a principal interlocutor debating the nature of pleasure and the good life.
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C.
Demetrios
Demetrios is a Greek given name historically borne by several notable Byzantine figures, including members of the Palaiologos dynasty.
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D.
Lysimachus
Lysimachus was a Macedonian general and one of Alexander the Great’s Diadochi who became king of Thrace, Asia Minor, and Macedon during the early Hellenistic period.
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E.
Lysimachus
Lysimachus is a character in Plato’s dialogue "Laches," depicted as an Athenian concerned with the moral and martial education of his sons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Craterus Description of subject: Craterus was a prominent Macedonian general and close companion of Alexander the Great who played a key role in the Wars of the Diadochi following Alexander’s death.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Craterus the Younger