Aulis
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Aulis is an ancient Greek port town in Boeotia, traditionally known as the place where the Greek fleet gathered before sailing to Troy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aulis canonical | 7 |
| Aulis camp | 1 |
| near-sacrifice at Aulis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4532123 — 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: Aulis Context triple: [Iphigenia in Aulis, setting, Aulis]
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A.
Kalydon
Kalydon is an ancient Greek city in Aetolia, famed in mythology for the Calydonian Boar hunt and its prominent role in early Greek epic tradition.
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B.
Helinus
Helinus is a small genus of flowering plants known for its climbing or scrambling shrubs, classified within the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae.
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C.
Heliaia
Heliaia was the principal popular court of Classical Athens, composed of large citizen juries that handled most legal cases and played a key role in the city’s democratic system.
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D.
Diomedes
Diomedes is a hero from Greek mythology, famed for his role in the Trojan War as one of the Achaeans’ greatest warriors and a favored ally of the goddess Athena.
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E.
Oropos
Oropos is a coastal town and municipality in northeastern Attica, Greece, situated opposite the island of Euboea and known for its archaeological sites and seaside resorts.
- 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: Aulis Target entity description: Aulis is an ancient Greek port town in Boeotia, traditionally known as the place where the Greek fleet gathered before sailing to Troy.
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A.
Kalydon
Kalydon is an ancient Greek city in Aetolia, famed in mythology for the Calydonian Boar hunt and its prominent role in early Greek epic tradition.
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B.
Helinus
Helinus is a small genus of flowering plants known for its climbing or scrambling shrubs, classified within the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae.
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C.
Heliaia
Heliaia was the principal popular court of Classical Athens, composed of large citizen juries that handled most legal cases and played a key role in the city’s democratic system.
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D.
Diomedes
Diomedes is a hero from Greek mythology, famed for his role in the Trojan War as one of the Achaeans’ greatest warriors and a favored ally of the goddess Athena.
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E.
Oropos
Oropos is a coastal town and municipality in northeastern Attica, Greece, situated opposite the island of Euboea and known for its archaeological sites and seaside resorts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek town
ⓘ
port town ⓘ settlement ⓘ |
| appearsIn | myths of the Trojan War cycle ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | gathering of Greek fleet for Trojan War ⓘ |
| associatedWithMythologicalFigure |
Agamemnon
ⓘ
Artemis ⓘ Iphigenia ⓘ |
| category |
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Boeotia
ⓘ
Former populated places in Greece ⓘ |
| coastType | Euboean Gulf ⓘ |
| country | Greece ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Greek epic tradition
ⓘ
Greek tragedy ⓘ |
| hasAuthorWritingAbout |
Euripides
ⓘ
Pausanias ⓘ Strabo ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryWorkAbout |
Iphigenia in Aulis
ⓘ
linked to:
Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)
|
| hasModernSiteNear | modern Avlida ⓘ |
| hasRole | port ⓘ |
| knownFor |
assembly point of Greek fleet before Trojan War
ⓘ
departure point for expedition to Troy ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boeotia
ⓘ
Central Greece ⓘ
linked to:
central Greece
ancient Greece ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| mentionedIn |
Greek mythology
ⓘ
Homeric tradition ⓘ
linked to:
Homeric epics
|
| mythologicalEvent |
calming of winds by Artemis
ⓘ
sacrifice of Iphigenia ⓘ
linked to:
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
|
| near |
Chalcis
ⓘ
Euboea ⓘ |
| partOf |
Boeotian region
ⓘ
linked to:
Boeotia
|
| religiousSignificance | sanctuary of Artemis ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | naval mustering point ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Bronze Age (mythological setting)
ⓘ
linked to:
Bronze Age
Classical antiquity ⓘ |
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: Aulis Description of subject: Aulis is an ancient Greek port town in Boeotia, traditionally known as the place where the Greek fleet gathered before sailing to Troy.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Iphigenia in Aulis (Euripides)
linked to: Aulis
linked to: Aulis
subject linked to:
Cypria (lost epic)