Apama (daughter of Seleucus I)
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Apama was a Seleucid princess of the early Hellenistic period, known as the daughter of Seleucus I Nicator and a figure in the dynastic marriages that shaped alliances after Alexander the Great’s empire fragmented.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Apama (daughter of Seleucus I) canonical | 1 |
| Apama, wife of Seleucus I Nicator | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6466480 — 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: Apama (daughter of Seleucus I) Context triple: [Seleucus I Nicator, child, Apama (daughter of Seleucus I)]
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Stratonice of Macedon
Stratonice of Macedon was a Macedonian noblewoman, best known as the mother of Antigonus II Gonatas, a king of the Hellenistic Antigonid dynasty.
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B.
Stratonice of Syria
Stratonice of Syria was a Hellenistic queen of the Seleucid Empire, noted for her political influence and for her famous marriage to both Seleucus I Nicator and later his son Antiochus I.
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C.
Laodice of Macedonia
Laodice of Macedonia was a Hellenistic-era noblewoman, likely of Macedonian or Seleucid royal connection, after whom the ancient city that became modern Latakia was named.
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D.
Apame of Bithynia
Apame of Bithynia was a Hellenistic queen of the Kingdom of Bithynia, known as a member of the royal dynasty that ruled in northwestern Anatolia in the 3rd–2nd centuries BC.
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E.
Apama III
Apama III was a Hellenistic queen of Bithynia and member of the Seleucid royal lineage, known primarily as the wife of King Prusias I.
- 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: Apama (daughter of Seleucus I) Target entity description: Apama was a Seleucid princess of the early Hellenistic period, known as the daughter of Seleucus I Nicator and a figure in the dynastic marriages that shaped alliances after Alexander the Great’s empire fragmented.
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A.
Stratonice of Macedon
Stratonice of Macedon was a Macedonian noblewoman, best known as the mother of Antigonus II Gonatas, a king of the Hellenistic Antigonid dynasty.
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B.
Stratonice of Syria
Stratonice of Syria was a Hellenistic queen of the Seleucid Empire, noted for her political influence and for her famous marriage to both Seleucus I Nicator and later his son Antiochus I.
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C.
Laodice of Macedonia
Laodice of Macedonia was a Hellenistic-era noblewoman, likely of Macedonian or Seleucid royal connection, after whom the ancient city that became modern Latakia was named.
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D.
Apame of Bithynia
Apame of Bithynia was a Hellenistic queen of the Kingdom of Bithynia, known as a member of the royal dynasty that ruled in northwestern Anatolia in the 3rd–2nd centuries BC.
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E.
Apama III
Apama III was a Hellenistic queen of Bithynia and member of the Seleucid royal lineage, known primarily as the wife of King Prusias I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hellenistic royal
ⓘ
Seleucid princess ⓘ ancient Macedonian Greek woman ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Seleucid Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Seleucid royal court (exact city uncertain) ⓘ |
| culture | Hellenistic Greek ⓘ |
| dynasty | Seleucid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Macedonian Greek ⓘ |
| father | Seleucus I Nicator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| historicalContext | successor kingdoms formed after the death of Alexander the Great ⓘ |
| lifeStatus | deceased ⓘ |
| mother | Apama of Sogdia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Apama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | participation in dynastic marriage alliances after the fragmentation of Alexander the Great’s empire ⓘ |
| relationshipToSubject | brother of Apama (daughter of Seleucus I) ⓘ |
| relative | Antiochus I Soter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | marriage alliance partner in Hellenistic interstate politics ⓘ |
| sourceType | ancient historical tradition with fragmentary evidence ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early Hellenistic period ⓘ |
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: Apama (daughter of Seleucus I) Description of subject: Apama was a Seleucid princess of the early Hellenistic period, known as the daughter of Seleucus I Nicator and a figure in the dynastic marriages that shaped alliances after Alexander the Great’s empire fragmented.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Apama, wife of Seleucus I Nicator