Alexander II of Macedon
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Alexander II of Macedon was a 4th-century BC king of Macedon whose brief and turbulent reign preceded the rise of his younger brother Philip II and the subsequent expansion of the Macedonian kingdom.
All labels observed (1)
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| Alexander II of Macedon canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3520452 — 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: Alexander II of Macedon Context triple: [Philip II of Macedon, sibling, Alexander II of Macedon]
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Alexander I of Macedon
Alexander I of Macedon was an early 5th-century BC king of Macedon known for navigating between Persian dominance and emerging Greek power, and for being recognized as a philhellene who participated in the Olympic Games.
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Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon was the 4th-century BCE king who transformed Macedonia into a dominant military power and laid the foundations for his son Alexander the Great’s vast empire.
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Demetrius I of Macedon
Demetrius I of Macedon was a prominent Hellenistic king and military leader, known for his ambitious campaigns, naval innovations, and role in the Wars of the Diadochi following Alexander the Great’s death.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great was a 4th-century BCE king of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history and spread Greek culture across the Near East.
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Alexander the Magnificent
Alexander the Magnificent was a prominent medieval Bishop of Lincoln noted for his wealth, political influence, and lavish patronage of architecture and learning in 12th-century England.
- 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: Alexander II of Macedon Target entity description: Alexander II of Macedon was a 4th-century BC king of Macedon whose brief and turbulent reign preceded the rise of his younger brother Philip II and the subsequent expansion of the Macedonian kingdom.
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A.
Alexander I of Macedon
Alexander I of Macedon was an early 5th-century BC king of Macedon known for navigating between Persian dominance and emerging Greek power, and for being recognized as a philhellene who participated in the Olympic Games.
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B.
Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon was the 4th-century BCE king who transformed Macedonia into a dominant military power and laid the foundations for his son Alexander the Great’s vast empire.
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C.
Demetrius I of Macedon
Demetrius I of Macedon was a prominent Hellenistic king and military leader, known for his ambitious campaigns, naval innovations, and role in the Wars of the Diadochi following Alexander the Great’s death.
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D.
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great was a 4th-century BCE king of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history and spread Greek culture across the Near East.
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E.
Alexander the Magnificent
Alexander the Magnificent was a prominent medieval Bishop of Lincoln noted for his wealth, political influence, and lavish patronage of architecture and learning in 12th-century England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Alexander II of Macedon Description of subject: Alexander II of Macedon was a 4th-century BC king of Macedon whose brief and turbulent reign preceded the rise of his younger brother Philip II and the subsequent expansion of the Macedonian kingdom.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.