Cotyora
E330413
Cotyora was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of the Black Sea in the region of Pontus, known as a colony of Sinope and a waypoint in Xenophon’s Anabasis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cotyora canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3083455 — 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: Cotyora Context triple: [Pontus, containsCity, Cotyora]
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A.
Ziria
Ziria is a mountain in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, traditionally identified with Mount Cyllene, which is famed in Greek mythology as the birthplace of the god Hermes.
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B.
Anticyra
Anticyra is an ancient Greek coastal town in the region of Phocis, historically noted for its harbor and its association with medicinal hellebore.
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C.
Caesonia
Caesonia is a Roman cognomen (family name) used by women of the gens Atia in ancient Rome.
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D.
Carneia
Carneia was an important ancient Spartan and Dorian festival in honor of Apollo, marked by rituals, music, and athletic contests that reflected both military and agricultural aspects of the community.
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E.
Paeligni
The Paeligni were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, closely associated with the Samnites and known for their role in early Roman history and the Social War.
- 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: Cotyora Target entity description: Cotyora was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of the Black Sea in the region of Pontus, known as a colony of Sinope and a waypoint in Xenophon’s Anabasis.
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A.
Ziria
Ziria is a mountain in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, traditionally identified with Mount Cyllene, which is famed in Greek mythology as the birthplace of the god Hermes.
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B.
Anticyra
Anticyra is an ancient Greek coastal town in the region of Phocis, historically noted for its harbor and its association with medicinal hellebore.
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C.
Caesonia
Caesonia is a Roman cognomen (family name) used by women of the gens Atia in ancient Rome.
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D.
Carneia
Carneia was an important ancient Spartan and Dorian festival in honor of Apollo, marked by rituals, music, and athletic contests that reflected both military and agricultural aspects of the community.
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E.
Paeligni
The Paeligni were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, closely associated with the Samnites and known for their role in early Roman history and the Social War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek city
ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ |
| associatedWork |
Anabasis
ⓘ
surface form:
Anabasis by Xenophon
|
| coast | Black Sea ⓘ |
| colonizedBy |
Sinop
ⓘ
surface form:
Sinope
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country |
Greek Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Greece
|
| culture | Greek ⓘ |
| describedIn | Anabasis ⓘ |
| ethnicCharacter | Hellenic settlement ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Sinop
ⓘ
surface form:
Sinope
|
| hasRole |
colony of Sinope
ⓘ
port city ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | stopover for the Ten Thousand in Anabasis ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Pontus ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalRegion | Asia Minor ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Turkey ⓘ |
| locatedOn | southern coast of the Black Sea ⓘ |
| mentionedBy | Xenophon ⓘ |
| nearBodyOfWater | Black Sea ⓘ |
| onTradeRoute | Black Sea maritime routes ⓘ |
| politicalAffiliation | Greek colonial network of Sinope ⓘ |
| source | ancient Greek historiography ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Classical antiquity ⓘ |
| typeOfSettlement | polis ⓘ |
| usedAs | waypoint in Xenophon’s Anabasis ⓘ |
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: Cotyora Description of subject: Cotyora was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of the Black Sea in the region of Pontus, known as a colony of Sinope and a waypoint in Xenophon’s Anabasis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.