Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period)
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Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period) was an ancient Roman basilica built near the Temple of Concord in the Forum Romanum, serving as a public and judicial building during the late Republic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1973203 — 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: Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period) Context triple: [Regio VIII Forum Romanum, contains, Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period)]
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A.
Basilica Aemilia
Basilica Aemilia was an important ancient Roman public basilica on the Forum Romanum, renowned for its elegant architecture and role as a center of commerce and legal affairs.
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B.
Basilica Julia
Basilica Julia was a grand public building and law court in the Roman Forum, commissioned by Julius Caesar and later completed by Augustus, used primarily for legal proceedings and commercial activities.
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C.
Curia Julia
Curia Julia was the principal meeting house of the Roman Senate in the Forum Romanum, commissioned by Julius Caesar and completed under Augustus.
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D.
former Stoa Basilica
The former Stoa Basilica was a large colonnaded public building in ancient Constantinople that once stood above what is now known as the Basilica Cistern.
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E.
Severan basilica
The Severan basilica is a grand Roman public building in the ancient city of Leptis Magna, Libya, renowned for its monumental architecture commissioned under the Severan dynasty.
- 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: Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period) Target entity description: Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period) was an ancient Roman basilica built near the Temple of Concord in the Forum Romanum, serving as a public and judicial building during the late Republic.
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A.
Basilica Aemilia
Basilica Aemilia was an important ancient Roman public basilica on the Forum Romanum, renowned for its elegant architecture and role as a center of commerce and legal affairs.
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B.
Basilica Julia
Basilica Julia was a grand public building and law court in the Roman Forum, commissioned by Julius Caesar and later completed by Augustus, used primarily for legal proceedings and commercial activities.
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C.
Curia Julia
Curia Julia was the principal meeting house of the Roman Senate in the Forum Romanum, commissioned by Julius Caesar and completed under Augustus.
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D.
former Stoa Basilica
The former Stoa Basilica was a large colonnaded public building in ancient Constantinople that once stood above what is now known as the Basilica Cistern.
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E.
Severan basilica
The Severan basilica is a grand Roman public building in the ancient city of Leptis Magna, Libya, renowned for its monumental architecture commissioned under the Severan dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman basilica
ⓘ
judicial building ⓘ public building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Roman basilica ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Temple of Concord
ⓘ
political life of the late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| builder | Lucius Opimius ⓘ |
| city | Roma ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 2nd century BC ⓘ |
| country | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | Roman ⓘ |
| demolishedFor | rebuilding of the Temple of Concord ⓘ |
| function |
covered hall for assemblies
ⓘ
venue for magistrates and legal officials ⓘ |
| hasLatinName | Basilica Opimia ⓘ |
| heritage | part of the architectural development of the Roman Forum ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Forum Romanum
ⓘ
Rome ⓘ Roman Antiquity ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Rome
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| locatedNear | Temple of Concord ⓘ |
| locatedOn | northwest side of the Roman Forum ⓘ |
| material |
marble (facing and decorative elements)
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stone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lucius Opimius ⓘ |
| partOf |
Roman Forum
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surface form:
Roman Forum complex
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| religiousAffiliation | Roman state religion (context of Forum complex) ⓘ |
| status | destroyed ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial activities
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judicial proceedings ⓘ legal transactions ⓘ public business ⓘ |
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: Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period) Description of subject: Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period) was an ancient Roman basilica built near the Temple of Concord in the Forum Romanum, serving as a public and judicial building during the late Republic.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Regio VIII Forum Romanum