Cilicia
E111287
Cilicia was an ancient coastal region in southeastern Asia Minor, known for its strategic location, rugged terrain, and role as a crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Near East.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cilicia canonical | 68 |
| Cilicia Pedias | 6 |
| Cilicia (historical region) | 2 |
| Cilicia Secunda | 2 |
| Rough Cilicia | 2 |
| Cilicia (for a limited period and areas) | 1 |
| Cilicia (partly) | 1 |
| Cilicia province | 1 |
| Cilicia region | 1 |
| Roman Cilicia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T924770 — 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: Cilicia Context triple: [Typhoeus, associatedPlace, Cilicia]
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A.
Cilician Armenia
Cilician Armenia was a medieval Armenian kingdom located along the southeastern coast of Asia Minor, serving as a key Christian stronghold and trading hub between East and West during the Crusades.
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B.
Phrygia
Phrygia was an ancient region in west-central Anatolia, known for its distinctive culture, legendary King Midas, and role as a crossroads of early Anatolian and Greek civilizations.
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C.
Anatolia
Anatolia is a large peninsula in Western Asia that forms most of modern-day Turkey and has long served as a strategic crossroads between Europe and the Middle East.
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D.
Caria
Caria was an ancient region in southwestern Anatolia, known for its coastal cities, distinctive Carian culture, and later integration into the Persian and Hellenistic worlds.
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E.
Lycia
Lycia was an ancient region on the southwestern coast of Anatolia, known for its distinctive Lycian civilization, rock-cut tombs, and later incorporation into Greek and Roman spheres.
- 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: Cilicia Target entity description: Cilicia was an ancient coastal region in southeastern Asia Minor, known for its strategic location, rugged terrain, and role as a crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Near East.
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A.
Cilician Armenia
Cilician Armenia was a medieval Armenian kingdom located along the southeastern coast of Asia Minor, serving as a key Christian stronghold and trading hub between East and West during the Crusades.
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B.
Phrygia
Phrygia was an ancient region in west-central Anatolia, known for its distinctive culture, legendary King Midas, and role as a crossroads of early Anatolian and Greek civilizations.
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C.
Anatolia
Anatolia is a large peninsula in Western Asia that forms most of modern-day Turkey and has long served as a strategic crossroads between Europe and the Middle East.
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D.
Caria
Caria was an ancient region in southwestern Anatolia, known for its coastal cities, distinctive Carian culture, and later integration into the Persian and Hellenistic worlds.
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E.
Lycia
Lycia was an ancient region on the southwestern coast of Anatolia, known for its distinctive Lycian civilization, rock-cut tombs, and later incorporation into Greek and Roman spheres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Cilicia Description of subject: Cilicia was an ancient coastal region in southeastern Asia Minor, known for its strategic location, rugged terrain, and role as a crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Near East.
Referenced by (85)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cilicia (for a limited period and areas)
this entity surface form:
Roman Cilicia
subject surface form:
Trajanopolis
this entity surface form:
Cilicia Pedias
this entity surface form:
Cilicia (historical region)
this entity surface form:
Cilicia Pedias
this entity surface form:
Cilicia Secunda