Jordanes
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Jordanes was a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat and historian best known for his work "Getica," a key source on the history of the Goths and other barbarian peoples.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jordanes canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2001855 — 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: Jordanes Context triple: [Alans, mentionedBy, Jordanes]
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A.
Nabataean kingdom
The Nabataean kingdom was an ancient Arab state centered on the city of Petra that flourished as a major trading hub in the Near East from around the 4th century BCE until its annexation by the Roman Empire.
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B.
Jordan
Jordan is a popular Nike-owned athletic footwear and apparel brand originally inspired by basketball legend Michael Jordan and known for its iconic Air Jordan sneakers.
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C.
Jordan
Jordan is a Middle Eastern country located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, known for its ancient archaeological sites like Petra and its strategic political role in the region.
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D.
Herodian Kingdom
The Herodian Kingdom was a client state of the Roman Empire in the Levant, ruled by the Herodian dynasty and encompassing much of Judea and surrounding regions in the late first century BCE and early first century CE.
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E.
Kalhu
Kalhu, also known as Nimrud, was a prominent ancient Assyrian city that served as a royal capital and major administrative and cultural center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
- 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: Jordanes Target entity description: Jordanes was a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat and historian best known for his work "Getica," a key source on the history of the Goths and other barbarian peoples.
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A.
Nabataean kingdom
The Nabataean kingdom was an ancient Arab state centered on the city of Petra that flourished as a major trading hub in the Near East from around the 4th century BCE until its annexation by the Roman Empire.
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B.
Jordan
Jordan is a popular Nike-owned athletic footwear and apparel brand originally inspired by basketball legend Michael Jordan and known for its iconic Air Jordan sneakers.
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C.
Jordan
Jordan is a Middle Eastern country located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, known for its ancient archaeological sites like Petra and its strategic political role in the region.
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D.
Herodian Kingdom
The Herodian Kingdom was a client state of the Roman Empire in the Levant, ruled by the Herodian dynasty and encompassing much of Judea and surrounding regions in the late first century BCE and early first century CE.
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E.
Kalhu
Kalhu, also known as Nimrud, was a prominent ancient Assyrian city that served as a royal capital and major administrative and cultural center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Late Antique historian
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Latin-language writer ⓘ Roman bureaucrat ⓘ chronicler ⓘ historian ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Iordanes
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Jordanis ⓘ |
| approximateDateOfBirth | early 6th century ⓘ |
| approximateDateOfDeath | after 551 ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 6th century ⓘ |
| culture |
Byzantine Empire
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surface form:
Eastern Roman Empire
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| describedInWork | Getica ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Goths
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surface form:
Gothic people
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| fieldOfWork |
Gothic history
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Late Antiquity ⓘ Roman history ⓘ historiography ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
ethnographic history
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historical writing ⓘ |
| influenced |
medieval historians of the Goths
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modern scholarship on Gothic and barbarian history ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Cassiodorus ⓘ |
| knownFor |
describing various barbarian peoples of Late Antiquity
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providing a key source on the history of the Goths ⓘ writing a summary of Cassiodorus' lost history of the Goths ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Latin ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Getica
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Romana ⓘ |
| occupation |
bureaucrat
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historian ⓘ notary ⓘ |
| primarySourceFor |
Gothic War (376–382)
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surface form:
Gothic–Roman relations
barbarian ethnography in Late Antiquity ⓘ early history of the Goths ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| timePeriodWrittenAbout | history of the Goths up to the mid-6th century ⓘ |
| workDate |
Getica composed circa 551
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Romana composed circa 551 ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Constantinople (probable)
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surface form:
Constantinople
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| wroteAbout |
Goths
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Huns ⓘ Roman Empire ⓘ Vandals ⓘ other barbarian peoples of Late Antiquity ⓘ |
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: Jordanes Description of subject: Jordanes was a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat and historian best known for his work "Getica," a key source on the history of the Goths and other barbarian peoples.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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