Aphrodisias
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Aphrodisias was an important ancient Greco-Roman city in Caria, Asia Minor, renowned for its sanctuary of Aphrodite and its exceptionally well-preserved marble sculptures and monuments.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aphrodisias canonical | 27 |
| ancient city of Aphrodisias | 5 |
| Aphrodisias School of Sculpture | 1 |
| Aphrodisias archaeological site | 1 |
| Aphrodisias sculptural school | 1 |
| Greco-Roman city of Aphrodisias | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1703988 — 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: Aphrodisias Context triple: [Diocletian's price edict, archaeologicalEvidenceFoundIn, Aphrodisias]
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Knidos
Knidos was an ancient Greek city in Caria, on the southwestern coast of modern-day Turkey, renowned as a cultural and commercial center and especially famous for housing Praxiteles’ celebrated statue of Aphrodite.
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Priene
Priene was an ancient Greek city in western Anatolia renowned for its well-planned Hippodamian street grid and impressive Hellenistic architecture, including the Temple of Athena.
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Epidaurus
Epidaurus is an ancient Greek city renowned for its healing sanctuary of Asclepius and its remarkably well-preserved theater, a masterpiece of classical architecture and acoustics.
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Aspendos
Aspendos is an ancient Greco-Roman city in southern Turkey renowned for its remarkably well-preserved Roman theater.
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Clazomenae
Clazomenae was an ancient Ionian Greek city in western Asia Minor, noted as a center of early philosophy and commerce.
- 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: Aphrodisias Target entity description: Aphrodisias was an important ancient Greco-Roman city in Caria, Asia Minor, renowned for its sanctuary of Aphrodite and its exceptionally well-preserved marble sculptures and monuments.
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A.
Knidos
Knidos was an ancient Greek city in Caria, on the southwestern coast of modern-day Turkey, renowned as a cultural and commercial center and especially famous for housing Praxiteles’ celebrated statue of Aphrodite.
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B.
Priene
Priene was an ancient Greek city in western Anatolia renowned for its well-planned Hippodamian street grid and impressive Hellenistic architecture, including the Temple of Athena.
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C.
Epidaurus
Epidaurus is an ancient Greek city renowned for its healing sanctuary of Asclepius and its remarkably well-preserved theater, a masterpiece of classical architecture and acoustics.
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D.
Aspendos
Aspendos is an ancient Greco-Roman city in southern Turkey renowned for its remarkably well-preserved Roman theater.
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E.
Clazomenae
Clazomenae was an ancient Ionian Greek city in western Asia Minor, noted as a center of early philosophy and commerce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Aphrodisias Description of subject: Aphrodisias was an important ancient Greco-Roman city in Caria, Asia Minor, renowned for its sanctuary of Aphrodite and its exceptionally well-preserved marble sculptures and monuments.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Asia province
subject linked to:
sanctuary of Aphrodite
subject linked to:
sanctuary of Aphrodite
linked to: Aphrodisias
subject linked to:
sanctuary of Aphrodite
linked to: Aphrodisias
linked to: Aphrodisias
linked to: Aphrodisias
subject linked to:
Tetrapylon
linked to: Aphrodisias
linked to: Aphrodisias
linked to: Aphrodisias
linked to: Aphrodisias
subject linked to:
Temple of Aphrodite
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Temple of Aphrodite
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Temple of Aphrodite
linked to: Aphrodisias