Via Aemilia
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Via Aemilia was a major Roman consular road in northern Italy that connected key cities such as Ariminum (Rimini) and Placentia (Piacenza), fostering trade and military movement across the region.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Via Aemilia canonical | 15 |
| Via Emilia | 4 |
| Via Emilia (Italian state road SS9) | 1 |
| served by Via Emilia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T284908 — 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: Via Aemilia Context triple: [Roman roads, hasPart, Via Aemilia]
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A.
Via Flaminia
Via Flaminia was a major ancient Roman consular road that connected Rome to the Adriatic Sea, serving as a crucial route for military, commercial, and administrative travel in central Italy.
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B.
Via Appia
Via Appia is one of the earliest and most important ancient Roman roads, historically serving as a major route connecting Rome to southern Italy.
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C.
Via Aurelia
Via Aurelia was an important ancient Roman road that ran along the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy, connecting Rome with key cities in Etruria and beyond.
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D.
Fosse Way
Fosse Way is an ancient Roman road in Britain that ran diagonally across the country, linking Exeter in the southwest to Lincoln in the northeast.
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E.
The Royal Road
The Royal Road is a historic route name traditionally used for important long-distance roads that connected major cities or regions under royal or imperial authority.
- 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: Via Aemilia Target entity description: Via Aemilia was a major Roman consular road in northern Italy that connected key cities such as Ariminum (Rimini) and Placentia (Piacenza), fostering trade and military movement across the region.
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A.
Via Flaminia
Via Flaminia was a major ancient Roman consular road that connected Rome to the Adriatic Sea, serving as a crucial route for military, commercial, and administrative travel in central Italy.
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B.
Via Appia
Via Appia is one of the earliest and most important ancient Roman roads, historically serving as a major route connecting Rome to southern Italy.
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C.
Via Aurelia
Via Aurelia was an important ancient Roman road that ran along the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy, connecting Rome with key cities in Etruria and beyond.
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D.
Fosse Way
Fosse Way is an ancient Roman road in Britain that ran diagonally across the country, linking Exeter in the southwest to Lincoln in the northeast.
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E.
The Royal Road
The Royal Road is a historic route name traditionally used for important long-distance roads that connected major cities or regions under royal or imperial authority.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman road
ⓘ
consular road ⓘ |
| builder | Marcus Aemilius Lepidus ⓘ |
| connects |
Ariminum
ⓘ
Bononia ⓘ Faventia ⓘ Forum Cornelii ⓘ Forum Julii ⓘ
surface form:
Forum Livii
Mutina ⓘ Parma ⓘ Placentia ⓘ Placentia colony ⓘ Regium Lepidi ⓘ |
| constructionStartYear | 187 BC ⓘ |
| country |
Roman Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Rome
|
| endPoint |
Piacenza
ⓘ
Placentia ⓘ |
| era | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| follows | Adriatic coast (partly) ⓘ |
| hasLatinName | Via Aemilia self-link ⓘ |
| historicalFunction | link between Adriatic coast and Po River region ⓘ |
| inception | 187 BC ⓘ |
| influenced |
Romanization of Cisalpine Gaul
ⓘ
urban development of northern Italy ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cisalpine Gaul
ⓘ
Northern Italy ⓘ
surface form:
northern Italy
|
| maintainedBy | Roman state ⓘ |
| modernEquivalent |
Via Aemilia
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Via Emilia (Italian state road SS9)
|
| namedAfter | Marcus Aemilius Lepidus ⓘ |
| partOf |
Roman road network
ⓘ
consular roads of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| region |
Cisalpine Gaul
ⓘ
surface form:
Gallia Cisalpina
|
| significance |
facilitated movement of Roman legions
ⓘ
stimulated commercial exchange in northern Italy ⓘ structured settlement pattern along its course ⓘ |
| startPoint |
Ariminum
ⓘ
Rimini ⓘ |
| terminusCity |
Ariminum
ⓘ
Placentia ⓘ |
| traverses |
Emilia-Romagna
ⓘ
Po Valley ⓘ |
| use |
administrative integration
ⓘ
military road ⓘ trade route ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Via Aemilia Description of subject: Via Aemilia was a major Roman consular road in northern Italy that connected key cities such as Ariminum (Rimini) and Placentia (Piacenza), fostering trade and military movement across the region.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Via Emilia (Italian state road SS9)
this entity surface form:
Via Emilia
this entity surface form:
Via Emilia
this entity surface form:
Via Emilia
this entity surface form:
served by Via Emilia