Mastanabal
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Mastanabal was a Numidian prince of the 2nd century BCE, known as one of the sons of King Masinissa and a member of the royal family involved in North African politics during the Punic Wars era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mastanabal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8424324 — 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: Mastanabal Context triple: [Masinissa, child, Mastanabal]
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A.
Atufal
Atufal is a towering, imposing African slave in Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno," whose silent presence and chains symbolize both resistance and the hidden tensions aboard the ship.
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B.
Mastallone
Mastallone is a mountain stream in northern Italy that flows through the Piedmont region before joining the Sesia River.
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C.
Forlani
Forlani is an Italian surname most notably associated with English actress Claire Forlani.
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D.
Bubaque
Bubaque is the main town and administrative center of the Bijagós Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau, known for its role as a gateway to the surrounding islands.
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E.
Rollán
Rollán is the Spanish family name of actress Maribel Verdú, known for her prominent roles in Spanish and international cinema.
- 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: Mastanabal Target entity description: Mastanabal was a Numidian prince of the 2nd century BCE, known as one of the sons of King Masinissa and a member of the royal family involved in North African politics during the Punic Wars era.
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A.
Atufal
Atufal is a towering, imposing African slave in Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno," whose silent presence and chains symbolize both resistance and the hidden tensions aboard the ship.
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B.
Mastallone
Mastallone is a mountain stream in northern Italy that flows through the Piedmont region before joining the Sesia River.
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C.
Forlani
Forlani is an Italian surname most notably associated with English actress Claire Forlani.
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D.
Bubaque
Bubaque is the main town and administrative center of the Bijagós Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau, known for its role as a gateway to the surrounding islands.
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E.
Rollán
Rollán is the Spanish family name of actress Maribel Verdú, known for her prominent roles in Spanish and international cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Numidian prince
ⓘ
royal person ⓘ |
| activeIn | 2nd century BCE North African politics ⓘ |
| child | Jugurtha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictContext | Second Punic War era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Numidia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2nd century BCE ⓘ |
| describedIn | Sallust’s Bellum Iugurthinum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Punic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Numidian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Masinissa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Hellenistic period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseOrDynasty | Numidian royal house of Masinissa ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Numidian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Punic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | concubine of Masinissa ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being father of Jugurtha
ⓘ
being son of King Masinissa of Numidia ⓘ |
| partOf | Masinissa dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Numidia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Numidia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of Numidian royal family ⓘ |
| region | North Africa ⓘ |
| relative |
Carthaginian Republic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Berber religion ⓘ |
| residence | Numidia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Gulussa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Massiva NERFINISHED ⓘ Micipsa 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: Mastanabal Description of subject: Mastanabal was a Numidian prince of the 2nd century BCE, known as one of the sons of King Masinissa and a member of the royal family involved in North African politics during the Punic Wars era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.