Philippopolis
E113775
Philippopolis is the ancient name of the city now known as Plovdiv in Bulgaria, a historically significant urban center in Thrace that has been ruled by numerous empires over the centuries.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philippopolis canonical | 22 |
| Roman city of Philippopolis | 2 |
| ancient city of Philippopolis | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T932642 — 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: Philippopolis Context triple: [Murad I, conqueredCity, Philippopolis]
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A.
Hadrianopolis
Hadrianopolis was an important ancient Roman and Byzantine city in Thrace, later known as Edirne in modern-day Turkey.
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B.
Naissus
Naissus was an important ancient Roman city in the province of Moesia, located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia.
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C.
Nikopolis
Nikopolis is an ancient city in Epirus, Greece, founded by the Roman emperor Augustus and known today for its extensive archaeological remains.
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D.
Nicomedia (traditionally)
Nicomedia (traditionally) is an ancient city in northwestern Asia Minor, near the Sea of Marmara, that served as a major Roman and later Byzantine administrative center.
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E.
Lampsacus
Lampsacus was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of the Hellespont, known as a center of philosophy and culture in classical antiquity.
- 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: Philippopolis Target entity description: Philippopolis is the ancient name of the city now known as Plovdiv in Bulgaria, a historically significant urban center in Thrace that has been ruled by numerous empires over the centuries.
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A.
Hadrianopolis
Hadrianopolis was an important ancient Roman and Byzantine city in Thrace, later known as Edirne in modern-day Turkey.
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B.
Naissus
Naissus was an important ancient Roman city in the province of Moesia, located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia.
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C.
Nikopolis
Nikopolis is an ancient city in Epirus, Greece, founded by the Roman emperor Augustus and known today for its extensive archaeological remains.
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D.
Nicomedia (traditionally)
Nicomedia (traditionally) is an ancient city in northwestern Asia Minor, near the Sea of Marmara, that served as a major Roman and later Byzantine administrative center.
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E.
Lampsacus
Lampsacus was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of the Hellespont, known as a center of philosophy and culture in classical antiquity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Philippopolis Description of subject: Philippopolis is the ancient name of the city now known as Plovdiv in Bulgaria, a historically significant urban center in Thrace that has been ruled by numerous empires over the centuries.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Philippopolis
linked to: Philippopolis
subject linked to:
stadium of Philippopolis
subject linked to:
stadium of Philippopolis
linked to: Philippopolis