Constantine’s Column
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Constantine’s Column is a monumental Roman column in Istanbul, erected by Emperor Constantine the Great to commemorate the declaration of Constantinople as the new capital of the Roman Empire.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Column of Constantine | 2 |
| Constantine’s Column canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22006549 — 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: Constantine’s Column Context triple: [Istanbul Peninsula, contains, Constantine’s Column]
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A.
Trajan's Column
Trajan's Column is a monumental Roman victory column in Rome, renowned for its spiral bas-relief frieze depicting Emperor Trajan’s Dacian Wars and serving as his funerary monument.
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Aurelian Column
The Aurelian Column is a Roman victory column in Rome, Italy, erected to commemorate Emperor Marcus Aurelius’s military campaigns, notable for its spiral reliefs depicting scenes of war.
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C.
Pompey’s Column
Pompey’s Column is a massive Roman triumphal column in Alexandria, Egypt, and one of the city’s most famous ancient landmarks.
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D.
Meridian Column
The Meridian Column is a historic monument in Hammerfest, Norway, commemorating the town’s role as a measurement point in the 19th-century Struve Geodetic Arc used to determine the Earth’s shape and size.
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Obelisk of Domitian
The Obelisk of Domitian is an ancient Roman obelisk, originally erected by Emperor Domitian and now prominently crowning Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome’s Piazza Navona.
- 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: Constantine’s Column Target entity description: Constantine’s Column is a monumental Roman column in Istanbul, erected by Emperor Constantine the Great to commemorate the declaration of Constantinople as the new capital of the Roman Empire.
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A.
Trajan's Column
Trajan's Column is a monumental Roman victory column in Rome, renowned for its spiral bas-relief frieze depicting Emperor Trajan’s Dacian Wars and serving as his funerary monument.
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B.
Aurelian Column
The Aurelian Column is a Roman victory column in Rome, Italy, erected to commemorate Emperor Marcus Aurelius’s military campaigns, notable for its spiral reliefs depicting scenes of war.
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C.
Pompey’s Column
Pompey’s Column is a massive Roman triumphal column in Alexandria, Egypt, and one of the city’s most famous ancient landmarks.
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D.
Meridian Column
The Meridian Column is a historic monument in Hammerfest, Norway, commemorating the town’s role as a measurement point in the 19th-century Struve Geodetic Arc used to determine the Earth’s shape and size.
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E.
Obelisk of Domitian
The Obelisk of Domitian is an ancient Roman obelisk, originally erected by Emperor Domitian and now prominently crowning Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome’s Piazza Navona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Constantine’s Column
linked to: Constantine’s Column