Peligni
E479783
The Peligni were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, inhabiting the mountainous region of Abruzzo and later incorporated into the Roman Republic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peligni canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4891352 — 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: Peligni Context triple: [Frentani, neighbouringPeople, Peligni]
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A.
Minturno
Minturno is a historic town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its ancient Roman ruins and scenic position near the Tyrrhenian coast.
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B.
Isernia
Isernia is a historic town and provincial capital in the Molise region of southern-central Italy, known for its ancient Samnite and Roman roots.
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C.
Pisae
Pisae is the ancient Roman name for the city of Pisa in Tuscany, Italy, historically significant as a coastal settlement and later a prominent maritime republic.
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D.
Cantù
Cantù is a town in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, known for its furniture-making tradition and location near Como.
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E.
Pescasseroli
Pescasseroli is a town in Italy’s Abruzzo region, best known as a gateway to the Abruzzo National Park and as the birthplace of philosopher and historian Benedetto Croce.
- 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: Peligni Target entity description: The Peligni were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, inhabiting the mountainous region of Abruzzo and later incorporated into the Roman Republic.
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A.
Minturno
Minturno is a historic town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its ancient Roman ruins and scenic position near the Tyrrhenian coast.
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B.
Isernia
Isernia is a historic town and provincial capital in the Molise region of southern-central Italy, known for its ancient Samnite and Roman roots.
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C.
Pisae
Pisae is the ancient Roman name for the city of Pisa in Tuscany, Italy, historically significant as a coastal settlement and later a prominent maritime republic.
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D.
Cantù
Cantù is a town in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, known for its furniture-making tradition and location near Como.
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E.
Pescasseroli
Pescasseroli is a town in Italy’s Abruzzo region, best known as a gateway to the Abruzzo National Park and as the birthplace of philosopher and historian Benedetto Croce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Italic tribe
ⓘ
ancient people ⓘ |
| alliedWith | other Italic allies in the Social War ⓘ |
| archaeologicalEvidence |
inscriptions in Oscan alphabet
ⓘ
sanctuaries and rural shrines ⓘ |
| capital | Corfinium ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| culture | Italic culture ⓘ |
| economy |
mountain agriculture
ⓘ
pastoralism ⓘ |
| ethnicGroupOf | ancient Italy ⓘ |
| grantedStatus | Roman citizenship (after Social War) ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Roman Republic era
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Republic
pre-Roman Italy ⓘ |
| identity | assimilated into Roman people in Imperial period ⓘ |
| incorporatedInto |
Roman Italy
ⓘ
linked to:
Italia (Roman province)
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Roman literary sources
ⓘ
epigraphic evidence ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Italic languages ⓘ |
| laterRomanMunicipia |
Corfinium
ⓘ
Sulmo ⓘ Superaequum ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Abruzzo
ⓘ
Apennine Mountains ⓘ
linked to:
Apennines
central Italy ⓘ
linked to:
Central Italy
|
| majorSettlement |
Corfinium
ⓘ
Corfinium (later Italica during Social War) ⓘ
linked to:
Italica (renamed Corfinium)
Sulmo ⓘ Superaequum ⓘ |
| militaryRole | supplied auxiliary troops to Rome ⓘ |
| modernRegionCorrespondence |
Province of L'Aquila
ⓘ
Province of Pescara ⓘ |
| neighbouringPeople |
Marrucini
ⓘ
Marsi ⓘ Samnites ⓘ Vestini ⓘ |
| partOf | Italic peoples ⓘ |
| politicalCenterDuring | Corfinium during the Social War ⓘ |
| region |
Valley of the Aterno River
ⓘ
linked to:
Aterno River valley
|
| religion |
Roman religion (after Romanization)
ⓘ
ancient Italic religion ⓘ |
| romanization | gradual during 3rd–1st centuries BCE ⓘ |
| spoke |
Oscan language
ⓘ
Sabellian language ⓘ |
| tookPartIn | Social War ⓘ |
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: Peligni Description of subject: The Peligni were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, inhabiting the mountainous region of Abruzzo and later incorporated into the Roman Republic.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.