Tisiphonus of Pherae
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Tisiphonus of Pherae was a 4th-century BC tyrant of the Thessalian city of Pherae, known as one of the successors in the line of local despots that followed the rule of Jason of Pherae.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King of Pherae | 1 |
| Tisiphonus of Pherae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3687388 — 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: Tisiphonus of Pherae Context triple: [Pherae, ruler, Tisiphonus of Pherae]
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A.
Nicesipolis of Pherae
Nicesipolis of Pherae was a Thessalian noblewoman and wife of Philip II of Macedon, known as the mother of their daughter Thessalonike.
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B.
Alexander of Pherae
Alexander of Pherae was a 4th-century BC tyrant of the Thessalian city of Pherae, notorious in ancient sources for his cruelty and oppressive rule.
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C.
Demetrius of Phalerum
Demetrius of Phalerum was an Athenian orator, statesman, and philosopher of the Peripatetic school who governed Athens under Macedonian rule and later became an influential scholar at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria.
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D.
Jason of Pherae
Jason of Pherae was a powerful 4th-century BC Thessalian leader and military commander who unified much of Thessaly and briefly emerged as a major rival to other Greek powers before his assassination.
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E.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
- 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: Tisiphonus of Pherae Target entity description: Tisiphonus of Pherae was a 4th-century BC tyrant of the Thessalian city of Pherae, known as one of the successors in the line of local despots that followed the rule of Jason of Pherae.
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A.
Nicesipolis of Pherae
Nicesipolis of Pherae was a Thessalian noblewoman and wife of Philip II of Macedon, known as the mother of their daughter Thessalonike.
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B.
Alexander of Pherae
Alexander of Pherae was a 4th-century BC tyrant of the Thessalian city of Pherae, notorious in ancient sources for his cruelty and oppressive rule.
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C.
Demetrius of Phalerum
Demetrius of Phalerum was an Athenian orator, statesman, and philosopher of the Peripatetic school who governed Athens under Macedonian rule and later became an influential scholar at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria.
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D.
Jason of Pherae
Jason of Pherae was a powerful 4th-century BC Thessalian leader and military commander who unified much of Thessaly and briefly emerged as a major rival to other Greek powers before his assassination.
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E.
Aristodemus
Aristodemus is a minor figure in ancient Greek philosophy, known primarily as a participant and narrator in Plato’s dialogue Symposium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
4th-century BC person
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ancient Greek city ⓘ ancient Greek ruler ⓘ ancient Greek ruler ⓘ tyrant ⓘ |
| country |
Thessaly
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surface form:
Ancient Thessaly
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| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| follows | Jason of Pherae ⓘ |
| governmentForm | tyranny ⓘ |
| knownAs | Tisiphonus ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pherae
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Thessaly ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the successors of Jason of Pherae as tyrant of Pherae ⓘ |
| partOf | line of tyrants of Pherae ⓘ |
| placeOfRule | Pherae ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
tagus of Thessaly
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tyrant of Pherae ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 4th century BC ⓘ |
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: Tisiphonus of Pherae Description of subject: Tisiphonus of Pherae was a 4th-century BC tyrant of the Thessalian city of Pherae, known as one of the successors in the line of local despots that followed the rule of Jason of Pherae.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.