Apollonia (Illyria)
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Apollonia (Illyria) was an important ancient Greek colony and later Roman city on the Adriatic coast in what is now Albania, known as a major commercial and cultural center of the region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apollonia | 4 |
| Apollonia (Illyria) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1744970 — 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: Apollonia (Illyria) Context triple: [Via Egnatia, startPoint, Apollonia (Illyria)]
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A.
Pella
Pella is a well-known American brand specializing in the design and manufacture of windows and doors for residential and commercial buildings.
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B.
Vergina
Vergina is a village in northern Greece renowned for its ancient royal tombs, including those attributed to the Macedonian kings, and is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site.
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C.
Pella, Greece
Pella, Greece is an ancient city in northern Greece that served as the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon and the birthplace of Alexander the Great.
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D.
Antium
Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, Italy, notable as a resort and birthplace of several Roman emperors, including Caligula and Nero.
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E.
Pherae
Pherae was an ancient Greek city in Thessaly known for its political influence and as the seat of the powerful tyrant Jason of Pherae.
- 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: Apollonia (Illyria) Target entity description: Apollonia (Illyria) was an important ancient Greek colony and later Roman city on the Adriatic coast in what is now Albania, known as a major commercial and cultural center of the region.
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A.
Pella
Pella is a well-known American brand specializing in the design and manufacture of windows and doors for residential and commercial buildings.
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B.
Vergina
Vergina is a village in northern Greece renowned for its ancient royal tombs, including those attributed to the Macedonian kings, and is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site.
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C.
Pella, Greece
Pella, Greece is an ancient city in northern Greece that served as the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon and the birthplace of Alexander the Great.
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D.
Antium
Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, Italy, notable as a resort and birthplace of several Roman emperors, including Caligula and Nero.
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E.
Pherae
Pherae was an ancient Greek city in Thessaly known for its political influence and as the seat of the powerful tyrant Jason of Pherae.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Apollonia (Illyria) Description of subject: Apollonia (Illyria) was an important ancient Greek colony and later Roman city on the Adriatic coast in what is now Albania, known as a major commercial and cultural center of the region.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Apollonia
subject surface form:
Kyrenaikē
this entity surface form:
Apollonia
this entity surface form:
Apollonia