Neapolis
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Neapolis was an ancient port city in Macedonia that served as the maritime gateway to Philippi and a key stop on important trade and travel routes such as the Via Egnatia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neapolis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2397613 — 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: Neapolis Context triple: [Philippi, locatedNear, Neapolis]
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A.
Neapolis
Neapolis is the ancient Roman name for the city now known as Nablus in the West Bank, historically an important urban center in the Levant.
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B.
Capua
Capua is an ancient city in southern Italy that was a prominent center of the Oscan-speaking Samnites and later an important Roman ally and urban hub.
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C.
Puteoli
Puteoli was an important ancient Roman port city in Campania, Italy, known for its bustling maritime trade and nearby volcanic deposits that supplied key materials for Roman concrete.
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D.
Ostia
Ostia was the principal harbor city of ancient Rome, serving as a major commercial and military port at the mouth of the Tiber River.
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E.
Ligor
Ligor was an important historical port city and regional center on the Malay Peninsula, known for its role in maritime trade and as a strategic outpost in Southeast Asian empires.
- 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: Neapolis Target entity description: Neapolis was an ancient port city in Macedonia that served as the maritime gateway to Philippi and a key stop on important trade and travel routes such as the Via Egnatia.
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A.
Neapolis
Neapolis is the ancient Roman name for the city now known as Nablus in the West Bank, historically an important urban center in the Levant.
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B.
Capua
Capua is an ancient city in southern Italy that was a prominent center of the Oscan-speaking Samnites and later an important Roman ally and urban hub.
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C.
Puteoli
Puteoli was an important ancient Roman port city in Campania, Italy, known for its bustling maritime trade and nearby volcanic deposits that supplied key materials for Roman concrete.
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D.
Ostia
Ostia was the principal harbor city of ancient Rome, serving as a major commercial and military port at the mouth of the Tiber River.
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E.
Ligor
Ligor was an important historical port city and regional center on the Malay Peninsula, known for its role in maritime trade and as a strategic outpost in Southeast Asian empires.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
port city ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Philippi
ⓘ
Via Egnatia ⓘ |
| connectedTo | Philippi ⓘ |
| country |
Macedon
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Macedonia
|
| economicActivity |
maritime trade
ⓘ
regional commerce ⓘ |
| function |
commercial hub
ⓘ
port for Philippi ⓘ transit point for travelers ⓘ |
| geographicalFeature |
coastal city
ⓘ
harbor ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Hellenistic period
ⓘ
Roman period ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Macedonia (Greece)
ⓘ
surface form:
Macedonia
|
| locatedIn |
Macedonia (Greece)
ⓘ
surface form:
Macedonia
Macedon ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Macedonia
|
| locatedOn |
Aegean Sea
ⓘ
northern Aegean coast ⓘ |
| modernCountry | Greece ⓘ |
| modernEquivalent | Kavala ⓘ |
| onRoute | Via Egnatia ⓘ |
| partOf | Via Egnatia trade network ⓘ |
| regionRole | port of eastern Macedonia ⓘ |
| role |
key stop on trade routes
ⓘ
key stop on travel routes ⓘ |
| servedAs | maritime gateway to Philippi ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
access point from sea to inland Macedonia
ⓘ
gateway between Aegean and Balkan interior ⓘ |
| transportMode |
land via Via Egnatia
ⓘ
sea ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Roman traders
ⓘ
travelers on Via Egnatia ⓘ |
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: Neapolis Description of subject: Neapolis was an ancient port city in Macedonia that served as the maritime gateway to Philippi and a key stop on important trade and travel routes such as the Via Egnatia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.