Barsine

E366120

Barsine, better known as Stateira II, was a Persian princess and the daughter of Darius III who became one of Alexander the Great’s wives.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Barsine canonical 2
Barsine (Stateira) 1

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Achaemenid royal
Persian princess
human
queen consort
alsoKnownAs Stateira II
associatedWith Wars of Alexander the Great
countryOfCitizenship Achaemenid Empire
deathCause assassination (traditional account, uncertain)
dynasty Achaemenid dynasty
ethnicGroup Persian
father Darius III
floruit late 4th century BC
gender female
grandfather Artaxerxes III
historicalStatus figure of classical antiquity
languageSpoken Old Persian
mother Stateira I
name Barsine self-link
notableEvent marriage to Alexander the Great at Susa
notableFamilyMember Alexander IV of Macedon
Hephaestion
Olympias
Philip II of Macedon
Roxana
notableFor being daughter of Darius III
being wife of Alexander the Great
participantIn Susa weddings
positionHeld queen consort of Macedon
wife of Alexander the Great
relative Sisygambis
religion ancient Iranian religion
sibling Drypetis
sourceMention Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
Diodorus Siculus
surface form: Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheca historica

Life of Alexander
surface form: Plutarch’s Life of Alexander
spouse Alexander the Great
timePeriod 4th century BC

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: Barsine
Description of subject: Barsine, better known as Stateira II, was a Persian princess and the daughter of Darius III who became one of Alexander the Great’s wives.

Referenced by (3)

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

Stateira II alternativeName Barsine
Stateira II alternativeName Barsine
this entity surface form: Barsine (Stateira)
Barsine name Barsine self-link