Hormizd IV
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Hormizd IV was a Sasanian king of the late 6th century known for his conflicts with the Byzantine Empire and internal tensions with the nobility and clergy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hormizd IV canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5946538 — 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: Hormizd IV Context triple: [Khosrow I, successor, Hormizd IV]
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A.
Hormizd I
Hormizd I was a 3rd-century Sasanian king of kings of Iran, known for his brief reign and continuation of his father Shapur I’s imperial policies.
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B.
Shapur II
Shapur II was a powerful 4th-century Sasanian king of kings known for his long reign, military campaigns against Rome, and efforts to strengthen and expand the Persian Empire.
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C.
Yazdegerd III
Yazdegerd III was the final shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire, whose reign marked the end of pre-Islamic imperial Iran following the Arab-Muslim conquests.
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D.
Shapur I
Shapur I was a powerful 3rd-century Sasanian king of the Persian Empire known for his military victories against Rome and significant contributions to imperial expansion and administration.
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E.
Kavadh I
Kavadh I was a Sasanian king of Persia (reigned 488–496 and 499–531) known for his social and religious reforms and for waging protracted wars against the Byzantine Empire.
- 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: Hormizd IV Target entity description: Hormizd IV was a Sasanian king of the late 6th century known for his conflicts with the Byzantine Empire and internal tensions with the nobility and clergy.
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A.
Hormizd I
Hormizd I was a 3rd-century Sasanian king of kings of Iran, known for his brief reign and continuation of his father Shapur I’s imperial policies.
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B.
Shapur II
Shapur II was a powerful 4th-century Sasanian king of kings known for his long reign, military campaigns against Rome, and efforts to strengthen and expand the Persian Empire.
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C.
Yazdegerd III
Yazdegerd III was the final shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire, whose reign marked the end of pre-Islamic imperial Iran following the Arab-Muslim conquests.
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D.
Shapur I
Shapur I was a powerful 3rd-century Sasanian king of the Persian Empire known for his military victories against Rome and significant contributions to imperial expansion and administration.
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E.
Kavadh I
Kavadh I was a Sasanian king of Persia (reigned 488–496 and 499–531) known for his social and religious reforms and for waging protracted wars against the Byzantine Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sasanian king
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Ctesiphon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalDuringReign | Ctesiphon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDownfall | coup by nobles and military leaders ⓘ |
| child |
Bestam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bindoe NERFINISHED ⓘ Khosrow II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Sasanian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCause | assassination ⓘ |
| deathDate | 590 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Ctesiphon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deposedBy | nobility of the Sasanian Empire ⓘ |
| dynasty | Sasanian dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | late 6th century ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
partly Parthian
ⓘ
partly Sasanian ⓘ |
| event | rebellion of Bahram Chobin ⓘ |
| father | Khosrow I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foreignRelations | warfare and diplomacy with the Byzantine Empire ⓘ |
| givenName | Hormizd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| house | House of Sasan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
conflicts with the Byzantine Empire
ⓘ
tensions with the Zoroastrian clergy ⓘ tensions with the nobility ⓘ |
| mother | Kayen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableGeneral | Bahram Chobin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opponent |
Byzantine Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maurice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| policy |
limiting power of nobility
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protection of commoners ⓘ support for Zoroastrian orthodoxy ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Shahanshah of the Iranians and non-Iranians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Khosrow I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Iran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regnalNumber | IV ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 590 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 579 ⓘ |
| religion | Zoroastrianism ⓘ |
| spouse | Anzoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Khosrow II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | King of Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hormizd IV Description of subject: Hormizd IV was a Sasanian king of the late 6th century known for his conflicts with the Byzantine Empire and internal tensions with the nobility and clergy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.