Old World
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Old World is a historical-geographical term referring to Africa, Europe, and Asia, the parts of the world known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old World canonical | 10 |
| Old World versus New World | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T358448 — 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.
Target entity: Old World Context triple: [Cactaceae, introducedTo, Old World]
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Ancient Mediterranean world
The Ancient Mediterranean world refers to the interconnected civilizations and cultures surrounding the Mediterranean Sea in antiquity, including regions such as Greece, Rome, Egypt, and the Near East.
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Atlantic world
The Atlantic world refers to the interconnected regions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas linked by trade, migration, empire, and cultural exchange across the Atlantic Ocean from the 15th to the 19th centuries.
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C.
Old Northwest
The Old Northwest was a historic region of the early United States encompassing the territory north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River, which later became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
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First World
The First World refers to the group of economically developed, industrialized, and often Western-aligned countries, historically contrasted with the developing or non-aligned nations of the Third World.
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E.
Western Europe
Western Europe is the region of European countries that, after World War II, became closely integrated with the United States and each other through economic recovery, political cooperation, and shared democratic institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Old World Target entity description: Old World is a historical-geographical term referring to Africa, Europe, and Asia, the parts of the world known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas.
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A.
Ancient Mediterranean world
The Ancient Mediterranean world refers to the interconnected civilizations and cultures surrounding the Mediterranean Sea in antiquity, including regions such as Greece, Rome, Egypt, and the Near East.
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B.
Atlantic world
The Atlantic world refers to the interconnected regions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas linked by trade, migration, empire, and cultural exchange across the Atlantic Ocean from the 15th to the 19th centuries.
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C.
Old Northwest
The Old Northwest was a historic region of the early United States encompassing the territory north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River, which later became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
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D.
First World
The First World refers to the group of economically developed, industrialized, and often Western-aligned countries, historically contrasted with the developing or non-aligned nations of the Third World.
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E.
Western Europe
Western Europe is the region of European countries that, after World War II, became closely integrated with the United States and each other through economic recovery, political cooperation, and shared democratic institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | historical-geographical term ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Age of Exploration
ⓘ
surface form:
Age of Discovery
European exploration ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | New World ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | Eurasian and African civilizations ⓘ |
| excludesContinent |
Australia
ⓘ
North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| excludesRegion |
Antarctica
ⓘ
Oceania ⓘ |
| geographicalScope | Afro-Eurasia ⓘ |
| hasBiogeographicalFeature | distinct flora and fauna from New World ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
densely interconnected trade networks
ⓘ
long-established civilizations ⓘ shared Old World diseases ⓘ |
| hasDemographicFeature | origin of many major human populations ⓘ |
| hasEconomicHistory | interconnected Old World trade routes ⓘ |
| hasSubregion |
East Asia
ⓘ
Eastern Europe ⓘ South Asia ⓘ
surface form:
Indian subcontinent
Mediterranean Basin ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ Western Europe ⓘ |
| historicalContext | pre-Columbian world known to Europeans ⓘ |
| historicalUsageBy | European scholars ⓘ |
| includesContinent |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ |
| includesTradeRoute |
Indian Ocean trade network
ⓘ
Silk Road routes ⓘ
surface form:
Silk Road
Trans-Saharan trade routes ⓘ |
| knownTo | Europeans before the discovery of the Americas ⓘ |
| linguisticUsage | English historical geography ⓘ |
| opposedConcept | New World ⓘ |
| refersTo |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Afro-Eurasia
ⓘ
surface form:
Afro-Eurasia landmass
Eastern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| termAppliesTo | regions known to Europeans in antiquity and the Middle Ages ⓘ |
| timeReference | before European discovery of the Americas ⓘ |
| usedInDiscipline |
anthropology
ⓘ
archaeology ⓘ geography ⓘ history ⓘ |
| usedToDistinguish | pre-Columbian known world from newly discovered Americas ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Old World Description of subject: Old World is a historical-geographical term referring to Africa, Europe, and Asia, the parts of the world known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.