Theme of Cilicia
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The Theme of Cilicia was a Byzantine military-administrative district in southeastern Asia Minor, centered on the Cilician region along the Mediterranean coast and serving as a frontier zone against Muslim powers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Theme of Cilicia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23377171 — 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: Theme of Cilicia Context triple: [Byzantine province of Syria Secunda, laterReorganizedAs, Theme of Cilicia]
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Cibyrrhaeot Theme
The Cibyrrhaeot Theme was a key Byzantine maritime province and naval district in southern Asia Minor that served as the empire’s principal base for its Mediterranean fleet.
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Theme of Dyrrhachium
The Theme of Dyrrhachium was a Byzantine military-administrative province centered on the strategic Adriatic port city of Dyrrhachium (modern Durrës, Albania), serving as a key frontier region between the Byzantine Empire and the western Balkans.
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C.
Theme of Thessalonica
The Theme of Thessalonica was a Byzantine military-administrative province centered on the important port city of Thessalonica in the Balkans.
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D.
Theme of Hellas
The Theme of Hellas was a Byzantine administrative and military province in central Greece that served as an important frontier region of the empire during the Middle Ages.
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E.
Soli in Cilicia
Soli in Cilicia was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of Asia Minor, known as the hometown of several notable Hellenistic figures and later refounded as Pompeiopolis under Roman rule.
- 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: Theme of Cilicia Target entity description: The Theme of Cilicia was a Byzantine military-administrative district in southeastern Asia Minor, centered on the Cilician region along the Mediterranean coast and serving as a frontier zone against Muslim powers.
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A.
Cibyrrhaeot Theme
The Cibyrrhaeot Theme was a key Byzantine maritime province and naval district in southern Asia Minor that served as the empire’s principal base for its Mediterranean fleet.
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B.
Theme of Dyrrhachium
The Theme of Dyrrhachium was a Byzantine military-administrative province centered on the strategic Adriatic port city of Dyrrhachium (modern Durrës, Albania), serving as a key frontier region between the Byzantine Empire and the western Balkans.
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C.
Theme of Thessalonica
The Theme of Thessalonica was a Byzantine military-administrative province centered on the important port city of Thessalonica in the Balkans.
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D.
Theme of Hellas
The Theme of Hellas was a Byzantine administrative and military province in central Greece that served as an important frontier region of the empire during the Middle Ages.
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E.
Soli in Cilicia
Soli in Cilicia was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of Asia Minor, known as the hometown of several notable Hellenistic figures and later refounded as Pompeiopolis under Roman rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
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