Legio VIII Augusta
E429614
Legio VIII Augusta was a prominent Roman legion, active from the late Republic through the Imperial period, known for its campaigns under Julius Caesar and later service along the empire’s frontiers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Legio VIII Augusta canonical | 4 |
| Legio VIII | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4297198 — 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: Legio VIII Augusta Context triple: [Siscia, hostedUnit, Legio VIII Augusta]
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Legio IV Flavia Felix
Legio IV Flavia Felix was a Roman Imperial legion, created by Emperor Vespasian in the 1st century AD, that served prominently along the empire’s Danubian frontier.
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B.
Legio VI Victrix
Legio VI Victrix was a distinguished Roman legion, famed for its military successes and long-term role in the conquest and defense of Roman Britain.
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C.
Legio II Adiutrix
Legio II Adiutrix was a Roman imperial legion, originally raised by Emperor Vespasian in the 1st century AD, that served in various campaigns across the empire and became closely associated with the Danubian frontier.
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D.
Legio VII Gemina
Legio VII Gemina was a Roman legion founded in the late 1st century AD that became permanently stationed in what is now León, Spain, playing a key role in the military control and Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula.
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E.
Legio XV Apollinaris
Legio XV Apollinaris was a Roman imperial legion, active from the late Republic through the early Empire, noted for its participation in eastern campaigns and service under emperors such as Vespasian.
- 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: Legio VIII Augusta Target entity description: Legio VIII Augusta was a prominent Roman legion, active from the late Republic through the Imperial period, known for its campaigns under Julius Caesar and later service along the empire’s frontiers.
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A.
Legio IV Flavia Felix
Legio IV Flavia Felix was a Roman Imperial legion, created by Emperor Vespasian in the 1st century AD, that served prominently along the empire’s Danubian frontier.
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B.
Legio VI Victrix
Legio VI Victrix was a distinguished Roman legion, famed for its military successes and long-term role in the conquest and defense of Roman Britain.
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C.
Legio II Adiutrix
Legio II Adiutrix was a Roman imperial legion, originally raised by Emperor Vespasian in the 1st century AD, that served in various campaigns across the empire and became closely associated with the Danubian frontier.
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D.
Legio VII Gemina
Legio VII Gemina was a Roman legion founded in the late 1st century AD that became permanently stationed in what is now León, Spain, playing a key role in the military control and Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula.
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E.
Legio XV Apollinaris
Legio XV Apollinaris was a Roman imperial legion, active from the late Republic through the early Empire, noted for its participation in eastern campaigns and service under emperors such as Vespasian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Legio VIII Augusta Description of subject: Legio VIII Augusta was a prominent Roman legion, active from the late Republic through the Imperial period, known for its campaigns under Julius Caesar and later service along the empire’s frontiers.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.