Mazaces
E433445
Mazaces was a late Achaemenid Persian official who briefly governed Egypt as satrap during the empire’s final years before Alexander the Great’s conquest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mazaces canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4348847 — 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: Mazaces Context triple: [Satrapy of Egypt, notableOfficeHolder, Mazaces]
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A.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
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B.
Mardontes
Mardontes was a Persian military commander who led Achaemenid forces against the Greeks during the Greco-Persian Wars, notably at the Battle of Mycale.
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C.
Biastes
Biastes is a genus of cleptoparasitic bees in the subfamily Nomadinae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
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D.
Cruquius
Cruquius is a village in North Holland, Netherlands, known for its historic steam pumping station that helped drain the Haarlemmermeer lake.
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E.
Máfil
Máfil is a small town and commune located in southern Chile's Los Ríos Region, known for its rural character and forestry-based economy.
- 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: Mazaces Target entity description: Mazaces was a late Achaemenid Persian official who briefly governed Egypt as satrap during the empire’s final years before Alexander the Great’s conquest.
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A.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
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B.
Mardontes
Mardontes was a Persian military commander who led Achaemenid forces against the Greeks during the Greco-Persian Wars, notably at the Battle of Mycale.
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C.
Biastes
Biastes is a genus of cleptoparasitic bees in the subfamily Nomadinae, known for laying their eggs in the nests of other bee species.
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D.
Cruquius
Cruquius is a village in North Holland, Netherlands, known for its historic steam pumping station that helped drain the Haarlemmermeer lake.
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E.
Máfil
Máfil is a small town and commune located in southern Chile's Los Ríos Region, known for its rural character and forestry-based economy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Achaemenid official
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ satrap ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Achaemenid central authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Macedonian conquest of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contemporaneousWith |
Alexander the Great
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Darius III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Achaemenid Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Achaemenid Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endCauseOfRule | Macedonian conquest ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| event | surrender of Memphis to Alexander the Great ⓘ |
| followedBy | Cleomenes of Naucratis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedFrom | Memphis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| handedOver |
Egyptian royal archives
ⓘ
Egyptian royal treasury ⓘ |
| historicalContext | fall of the Achaemenid Empire ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the last Achaemenid satrap of Egypt
ⓘ
surrendering Egypt to Alexander the Great ⓘ |
| occupation | satrap ⓘ |
| partOf | Achaemenid administration NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Memphis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
governor of Egypt
ⓘ
satrap of Egypt ⓘ |
| predecessor | Sabaces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionGoverned |
Lower Egypt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Upper Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Zoroastrianism ⓘ |
| residence | Memphis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ruledDuring | reign of Darius III ⓘ |
| surrenderedTo | Alexander the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
4th century BC
ⓘ
late Achaemenid period ⓘ |
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: Mazaces Description of subject: Mazaces was a late Achaemenid Persian official who briefly governed Egypt as satrap during the empire’s final years before Alexander the Great’s conquest.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.