Noviomagus
E320089
Noviomagus is an ancient Roman place-name used for several settlements in the western provinces of the Roman Empire, notably including the town later known as Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum (modern Nijmegen in the Netherlands).
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Noviomagus Reginorum | 4 |
| Noviomagus Lexoviorum | 2 |
| Noviomagus Treverorum | 2 |
| Noviomagus Veromanduorum | 2 |
| Noviomagus canonical | 1 |
| Noviomagus Nemetum | 1 |
| Oppidum Ubiorum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3045721 — 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.
Target entity: Noviomagus Context triple: [Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum, hasLatinNameElement, Noviomagus]
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A.
Hadrumetum
Hadrumetum was an important ancient Phoenician and later Roman port city located on the coast of modern-day Tunisia.
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B.
Ratae Corieltauvorum
Ratae Corieltauvorum was the Roman town and administrative center that later became the modern English city of Leicester.
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C.
Teanum Sidicinum
Teanum Sidicinum was an important ancient city in Campania, Italy, serving as the chief urban center of the Sidicini people and later becoming a notable Roman municipality.
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D.
Argentoratum
Argentoratum is the ancient Roman military camp and settlement that later developed into the modern city of Strasbourg in northeastern France.
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E.
Lugdunum
Lugdunum was the principal Roman city in Gaul, serving as a major administrative, commercial, and cultural center of the Roman Empire in what is now Lyon, France.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Noviomagus Target entity description: Noviomagus is an ancient Roman place-name used for several settlements in the western provinces of the Roman Empire, notably including the town later known as Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum (modern Nijmegen in the Netherlands).
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A.
Hadrumetum
Hadrumetum was an important ancient Phoenician and later Roman port city located on the coast of modern-day Tunisia.
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B.
Ratae Corieltauvorum
Ratae Corieltauvorum was the Roman town and administrative center that later became the modern English city of Leicester.
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C.
Teanum Sidicinum
Teanum Sidicinum was an important ancient city in Campania, Italy, serving as the chief urban center of the Sidicini people and later becoming a notable Roman municipality.
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D.
Argentoratum
Argentoratum is the ancient Roman military camp and settlement that later developed into the modern city of Strasbourg in northeastern France.
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E.
Lugdunum
Lugdunum was the principal Roman city in Gaul, serving as a major administrative, commercial, and cultural center of the Roman Empire in what is now Lyon, France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman place name
ⓘ
toponym ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
Chichester area
ⓘ
Lisieux ⓘ
surface form:
Lisieux area
Neumagen-Dhron area ⓘ Nijmegen ⓘ Noviomagus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Noviomagus Lexoviorum
Noviomagus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Noviomagus Reginorum
Noviomagus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Noviomagus Treverorum
Noviomagus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Noviomagus Veromanduorum
Noyon ⓘ
surface form:
Noyon area
Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople |
Batavi tribe
ⓘ
surface form:
Batavi
Lexovii ⓘ Regni ⓘ Treveri ⓘ Veromandui ⓘ |
| category |
Ancient Roman geography
ⓘ
Historical place names ⓘ Roman towns and cities in Europe ⓘ |
| etymologyContains |
magus
ⓘ
novio ⓘ |
| geographicalScope |
northwestern Europe
ⓘ
western Europe ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum
ⓘ
surface form:
Noviomagus Batavorum
Noviomagus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Noviomagus Lexoviorum
Noviomagus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Noviomagus Reginorum
Noviomagus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Noviomagus Treverorum
Noviomagus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Noviomagus Veromanduorum
|
| languageOfOrigin | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalRegion |
Britannia
ⓘ
Gallia Belgica ⓘ Gallia Lugdunensis ⓘ Germania Superior ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Roman itineraries
ⓘ
ancient geographical sources ⓘ |
| modernNameOfNotableSite | Nijmegen ⓘ |
| notablyIncludes | Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum ⓘ |
| possibleMeaning |
new field
ⓘ
new market ⓘ |
| timePeriodUsed | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Roman administration
ⓘ
Roman geographers ⓘ |
| usedIn | western provinces of the Roman Empire ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Noviomagus Description of subject: Noviomagus is an ancient Roman place-name used for several settlements in the western provinces of the Roman Empire, notably including the town later known as Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum (modern Nijmegen in the Netherlands).
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.