Illyricum
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Illyricum was a Roman province along the eastern Adriatic coast, encompassing parts of the western Balkans and serving as an important military and administrative frontier of the Roman Empire.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illyricum canonical | 25 |
| Illyria | 24 |
| Dalmatia | 3 |
| Illyrian hinterland | 2 |
| Dalmatia (Roman province) | 1 |
| Illyria (uncertain) | 1 |
| Illyrian territories | 1 |
| Illyricum (Roman province) | 1 |
| Illyricum (uncertain) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T126426 — 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.
Target entity: Illyricum Context triple: [Vulgar Latin, region, Illyricum]
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Cyrenaica
Cyrenaica is a historic coastal region in eastern Libya, centered around the ancient Greek city of Cyrene and long significant as a cultural and political area in North Africa.
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B.
Etruria
Etruria was an ancient region of central Italy inhabited by the Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilization renowned for its distinctive art, architecture, and cultural influence on early Rome.
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C.
Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia refers to the coastal areas of southern Italy and Sicily that were extensively colonized by ancient Greek settlers and became a major center of Hellenic culture in the Western Mediterranean.
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D.
Asia Minor
Asia Minor is a historical region in western Anatolia, corresponding largely to modern-day Turkey, that served as a crossroads of ancient Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern civilizations.
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E.
Thessaly
Thessaly is a historical and geographical region in central Greece known for its fertile plains, ancient cities, and proximity to landmarks like Mount Olympus and Meteora.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Illyricum Target entity description: Illyricum was a Roman province along the eastern Adriatic coast, encompassing parts of the western Balkans and serving as an important military and administrative frontier of the Roman Empire.
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A.
Cyrenaica
Cyrenaica is a historic coastal region in eastern Libya, centered around the ancient Greek city of Cyrene and long significant as a cultural and political area in North Africa.
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B.
Etruria
Etruria was an ancient region of central Italy inhabited by the Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilization renowned for its distinctive art, architecture, and cultural influence on early Rome.
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C.
Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia refers to the coastal areas of southern Italy and Sicily that were extensively colonized by ancient Greek settlers and became a major center of Hellenic culture in the Western Mediterranean.
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D.
Asia Minor
Asia Minor is a historical region in western Anatolia, corresponding largely to modern-day Turkey, that served as a crossroads of ancient Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern civilizations.
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E.
Thessaly
Thessaly is a historical and geographical region in central Greece known for its fertile plains, ancient cities, and proximity to landmarks like Mount Olympus and Meteora.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman province
ⓘ
historical region ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Salona ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Dalmatia
ⓘ
Italy ⓘ
surface form:
Italia
Macedon ⓘ
surface form:
Macedonia (Roman province)
Moesia ⓘ Pannonia ⓘ |
| capital |
Salona
ⓘ
Sirmium ⓘ Siscia ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| disestablished | 1st century AD ⓘ |
| dividedInto |
Illyricum
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Dalmatia (Roman province)
Pannonia ⓘ
surface form:
Pannonia (Roman province)
|
| established | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Illyrians
ⓘ
Romans ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Roman Emperor
ⓘ
Roman Senate ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn | Adriatic Sea ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Greek
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
eastern Adriatic coast
ⓘ
western Balkans ⓘ |
| militaryUnit |
Roman legion
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman legions
|
| modernTerritoryIncludes |
Albania
ⓘ
Bosnia and Herzegovina ⓘ Croatia ⓘ Kosovo ⓘ Montenegro ⓘ North Macedonia ⓘ Serbia ⓘ Slovenia ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Great Illyrian Revolt
ⓘ
Great Illyrian Revolt ⓘ
surface form:
Pannonian uprising
|
| partOf | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Illyrians
ⓘ
surface form:
Illyrian tribal territories
|
| religion |
Roman paganism
ⓘ
early Christianity ⓘ |
| significantFor |
Adriatic maritime trade
ⓘ
Roman military recruitment ⓘ Roman road network ⓘ administrative frontier ⓘ military frontier ⓘ |
| successor |
Dalmatia
ⓘ
surface form:
Dalmatia (Roman province)
Pannonia ⓘ
surface form:
Pannonia (Roman province)
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| timePeriod |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Illyricum Description of subject: Illyricum was a Roman province along the eastern Adriatic coast, encompassing parts of the western Balkans and serving as an important military and administrative frontier of the Roman Empire.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.