Tholos
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Tholos is a circular public building in the Ancient Agora of Athens that served as the headquarters and dining hall for the executive committee of the Athenian council.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tholos canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3297395 — 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: Tholos Context triple: [Ancient Agora of Athens, hasPart, Tholos]
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A.
Tholos of Delphi
The Tholos of Delphi is a circular 4th-century BCE sanctuary building at the ancient Greek site of Delphi, renowned for its elegant Doric and Corinthian architecture and its enigmatic religious function.
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B.
Tholos of Epidaurus
The Tholos of Epidaurus is a circular 4th-century BCE sanctuary building in the healing complex of Epidaurus, renowned for its sophisticated architecture and mysterious underground labyrinth.
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C.
Treasury of Atreus
The Treasury of Atreus is a monumental tholos (beehive) tomb at Mycenae in Greece, renowned for its impressive corbelled dome and as one of the finest surviving examples of Mycenaean funerary architecture.
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D.
Temple of Ellesyia
The Temple of Ellesyia is an ancient Egyptian rock-cut sanctuary in Nubia, dedicated to the god Amun and relocated to Italy to protect it from flooding caused by the Aswan High Dam.
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E.
Lion Gate at Mycenae
The Lion Gate at Mycenae is the monumental 13th-century BCE stone entrance to the citadel of Mycenae, famed for its relief of two confronting lions and as a prime example of Mycenaean architecture.
- 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: Tholos Target entity description: Tholos is a circular public building in the Ancient Agora of Athens that served as the headquarters and dining hall for the executive committee of the Athenian council.
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A.
Tholos of Delphi
The Tholos of Delphi is a circular 4th-century BCE sanctuary building at the ancient Greek site of Delphi, renowned for its elegant Doric and Corinthian architecture and its enigmatic religious function.
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B.
Tholos of Epidaurus
The Tholos of Epidaurus is a circular 4th-century BCE sanctuary building in the healing complex of Epidaurus, renowned for its sophisticated architecture and mysterious underground labyrinth.
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C.
Treasury of Atreus
The Treasury of Atreus is a monumental tholos (beehive) tomb at Mycenae in Greece, renowned for its impressive corbelled dome and as one of the finest surviving examples of Mycenaean funerary architecture.
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D.
Temple of Ellesyia
The Temple of Ellesyia is an ancient Egyptian rock-cut sanctuary in Nubia, dedicated to the god Amun and relocated to Italy to protect it from flooding caused by the Aswan High Dam.
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E.
Lion Gate at Mycenae
The Lion Gate at Mycenae is the monumental 13th-century BCE stone entrance to the citadel of Mycenae, famed for its relief of two confronting lions and as a prime example of Mycenaean architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient building
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archaeological site ⓘ circular building ⓘ public building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Classical Greek architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Athenian democracy
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Boule of Athens ⓘ |
| cityState | Classical Athens ⓘ |
| country | Greece ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| function |
official dining
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political administration ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
circular ground plan
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served as a permanent base for council members on duty ⓘ |
| hasShape | circular ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Ancient Agora of Athens
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Athens ⓘ Attica ⓘ Greece ⓘ |
| material |
marble
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stone ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ancient Agora of Athens
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surface form:
Ancient Agora of Athens complex
Athenian democratic institutions ⓘ civic center of Athens ⓘ |
| significance | seat of the prytaneis in Athens ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Classical period of Ancient Greece ⓘ |
| usedAs |
dining hall for the executive committee of the Athenian council
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headquarters of the executive committee of the Athenian council ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Athenian Council of 500 (Boule)
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surface form:
Athenian council
executive committee of the Athenian council ⓘ |
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: Tholos Description of subject: Tholos is a circular public building in the Ancient Agora of Athens that served as the headquarters and dining hall for the executive committee of the Athenian council.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.