Fordicidia
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Fordicidia was an ancient Roman agricultural festival in which a pregnant cow was sacrificed to ensure the fertility of the fields.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fordicidia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14211361 — 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: Fordicidia Context triple: [Ovid’s Fasti, associatedWithFestival, Fordicidia]
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A.
Toxeus
Toxeus is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as one of the sons of Althaea and Oeneus, often mentioned in the context of the Calydonian royal family and its associated legends.
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B.
Drymocichla
Drymocichla is a small genus of African warbler-like birds traditionally placed in the Old World warbler family Sylviidae.
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C.
Blepyrus
Blepyrus is a comic character in Aristophanes’ play *Ecclesiazusae*, typically portrayed as a bemused Athenian husband caught up in the play’s satirical treatment of gender and political reform.
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D.
Sidicini
The Sidicini were an ancient Italic people of south-central Italy, known from early Roman history and associated with the Oscan-speaking Samnite cultural sphere.
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E.
Phaeista
Phaeista is a taxonomic superclass that groups together certain brown algae within the class Phaeophyceae.
- 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: Fordicidia Target entity description: Fordicidia was an ancient Roman agricultural festival in which a pregnant cow was sacrificed to ensure the fertility of the fields.
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A.
Toxeus
Toxeus is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as one of the sons of Althaea and Oeneus, often mentioned in the context of the Calydonian royal family and its associated legends.
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B.
Drymocichla
Drymocichla is a small genus of African warbler-like birds traditionally placed in the Old World warbler family Sylviidae.
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C.
Blepyrus
Blepyrus is a comic character in Aristophanes’ play *Ecclesiazusae*, typically portrayed as a bemused Athenian husband caught up in the play’s satirical treatment of gender and political reform.
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D.
Sidicini
The Sidicini were an ancient Italic people of south-central Italy, known from early Roman history and associated with the Oscan-speaking Samnite cultural sphere.
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E.
Phaeista
Phaeista is a taxonomic superclass that groups together certain brown algae within the class Phaeophyceae.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ovid’s Fasti