Epidamnos
E451846
Epidamnos was an ancient Greek colony on the Adriatic coast, located where the modern Albanian city of Durrës now stands.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4550924 — 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: Epidamnos Context triple: [Durrës, ancientName, Epidamnos]
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A.
Sikyon
Sikyon was an ancient Greek city-state in the northern Peloponnese, known for its artistic and cultural achievements, especially in sculpture and painting.
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B.
Aegium
Aegium was an important ancient Greek city in the region of Achaea, known as a political and religious center, especially during the Hellenistic period.
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C.
Heraclea
Heraclea was an important ancient Greek city in southern Italy’s Lucania region, known for its strategic location and role in Magna Graecia.
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D.
Ambracia
Ambracia was an ancient Greek city in Epirus that became an important regional center and later the capital of King Pyrrhus.
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E.
Heraclea Lyncestis
Heraclea Lyncestis was an ancient Macedonian city, later a significant Roman and Byzantine center, located near modern Bitola in North Macedonia.
- 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: Epidamnos Target entity description: Epidamnos was an ancient Greek colony on the Adriatic coast, located where the modern Albanian city of Durrës now stands.
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A.
Sikyon
Sikyon was an ancient Greek city-state in the northern Peloponnese, known for its artistic and cultural achievements, especially in sculpture and painting.
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B.
Aegium
Aegium was an important ancient Greek city in the region of Achaea, known as a political and religious center, especially during the Hellenistic period.
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C.
Heraclea
Heraclea was an important ancient Greek city in southern Italy’s Lucania region, known for its strategic location and role in Magna Graecia.
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D.
Ambracia
Ambracia was an ancient Greek city in Epirus that became an important regional center and later the capital of King Pyrrhus.
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E.
Heraclea Lyncestis
Heraclea Lyncestis was an ancient Macedonian city, later a significant Roman and Byzantine center, located near modern Bitola in North Macedonia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek city
ⓘ
colony ⓘ |
| category |
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Albania
ⓘ
Ancient Greek colonies in Illyria ⓘ Former populated places in Albania ⓘ |
| connectedBy |
Via Egnatia (later as Dyrrhachium)
ⓘ
linked to:
Via Egnatia
|
| culture | Greek ⓘ |
| declinedDuring | Roman imperial period (as original name) ⓘ |
| foundedAroundYear | 627 BCE ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Corcyra
ⓘ
Corinth ⓘ Greek colonists ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 7th century BCE ⓘ |
| hadHarbor | yes ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSiteAt | Durrës ⓘ |
| hasModernSuccessor | Durrës ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfGovernment | Greek polis ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
conflict between Corinth and Corcyra
ⓘ
events leading to the Peloponnesian War ⓘ |
| knownFor |
naval importance
ⓘ
strategic maritime position ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs |
Dyrrhachion
ⓘ
linked to:
Dyrrhachium
Dyrrhachium ⓘ |
| locatedAtPresentSiteOf | Durrës ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Adriatic coast
ⓘ
Illyria ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Albania ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
ⓘ
linked to:
History of the Peloponnesian War
|
| namedAfter | Epidamnos (mythical hero) ⓘ |
| partOf |
Corinthian colonial network
ⓘ
linked to:
Corinthian colonies
Greek world ⓘ |
| prosperedFrom |
maritime trade
ⓘ
position between Greece and Italy ⓘ |
| regionHistoricallyInhabitedBy | Illyrians ⓘ |
| replacedByName | Dyrrhachium in Roman period ⓘ |
| situatedOn | Adriatic Sea ⓘ |
| underControlOf |
Byzantine Empire
ⓘ
Corcyra ⓘ Corinth ⓘ Rome ⓘ |
| usedAlphabet | Greek alphabet ⓘ |
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: Epidamnos Description of subject: Epidamnos was an ancient Greek colony on the Adriatic coast, located where the modern Albanian city of Durrës now stands.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Epidamnos
linked to: Epidamnos