Metapontum
E53221
Metapontum was an important ancient Greek city in southern Italy, known for its fertile land, temples, and role within the colonies of Magna Graecia.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Metapontum canonical | 14 |
| Metapontion | 1 |
| Metaponto | 1 |
| Metaponto (frazione of Bernalda) | 1 |
| city of Metapontum | 1 |
| city-state of Metapontum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T407849 — 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: Metapontum Context triple: [Magna Graecia, hasPart, Metapontum]
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A.
Locri Epizephyrii
Locri Epizephyrii was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, renowned for its early legal code and cultural influence within Magna Graecia.
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B.
Sybaris
Sybaris was an ancient Greek city in southern Italy famed for its immense wealth and legendary luxury.
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C.
Capua
Capua is an ancient city in southern Italy that was a prominent center of the Oscan-speaking Samnites and later an important Roman ally and urban hub.
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D.
Rhegium
Rhegium was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, located at the Strait of Messina and known for its strategic and commercial significance in Magna Graecia.
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E.
Bruttium
Bruttium was an ancient region in the southernmost part of the Italian peninsula, roughly corresponding to modern Calabria and inhabited by the Bruttii people.
- 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: Metapontum Target entity description: Metapontum was an important ancient Greek city in southern Italy, known for its fertile land, temples, and role within the colonies of Magna Graecia.
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A.
Locri Epizephyrii
Locri Epizephyrii was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, renowned for its early legal code and cultural influence within Magna Graecia.
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B.
Sybaris
Sybaris was an ancient Greek city in southern Italy famed for its immense wealth and legendary luxury.
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C.
Capua
Capua is an ancient city in southern Italy that was a prominent center of the Oscan-speaking Samnites and later an important Roman ally and urban hub.
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D.
Rhegium
Rhegium was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, located at the Strait of Messina and known for its strategic and commercial significance in Magna Graecia.
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E.
Bruttium
Bruttium was an ancient region in the southernmost part of the Italian peninsula, roughly corresponding to modern Calabria and inhabited by the Bruttii people.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ polis ⓘ |
| alliedWith |
Croton
ⓘ
Sybaris ⓘ Tarentum ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| culture | Greek ⓘ |
| declineDuring | Roman period ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Apollo
ⓘ
Athena ⓘ Hera ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
cereal cultivation ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Achaeans
ⓘ
Greek colonists ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSite |
Metapontum
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Metaponto
|
| hasIconography | ear of barley on coins ⓘ |
| hasRemains |
Doric temple columns
ⓘ
house foundations ⓘ sanctuary remains ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
agora
ⓘ
city walls ⓘ necropolis ⓘ sanctuary of Apollo ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| hasTemple |
Temple of Apollo
ⓘ
Temple of Athena ⓘ Temple of Hera ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fertile agricultural land
ⓘ
production of grain ⓘ temples ⓘ urban planning on a grid plan ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Basilicata
ⓘ
Magna Graecia ⓘ Southern Italy ⓘ
surface form:
southern Italy
|
| locatedNear |
Gulf of Tarentum
ⓘ
surface form:
Gulf of Taranto
Ionian Sea ⓘ |
| locatedOn | coast of Lucania ⓘ |
| memberOf | Achaean League of cities in Magna Graecia ⓘ |
| modernNearbySettlement |
Metapontum
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Metaponto (frazione of Bernalda)
|
| participatedIn | political affairs of Magna Graecia ⓘ |
| partOf | Achaean colonies in Magna Graecia ⓘ |
| regionInAntiquity | Lucania ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Archaic Greece
ⓘ
Classical Greece ⓘ Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| usedCurrency |
bronze coins
ⓘ
silver coins ⓘ |
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: Metapontum Description of subject: Metapontum was an important ancient Greek city in southern Italy, known for its fertile land, temples, and role within the colonies of Magna Graecia.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Metaponto
this entity surface form:
Metaponto (frazione of Bernalda)
subject surface form:
Temple of Hera (Metapontum)
subject surface form:
Temple of Apollo at Metapontum
subject surface form:
Temple of Apollo at Metapontum
this entity surface form:
Metapontion
subject surface form:
Sanctuary of Apollo at Metapontum
subject surface form:
Sanctuary of Apollo at Metapontum
this entity surface form:
city of Metapontum
subject surface form:
Temple of Athena (Metapontum)
subject surface form:
Temple of Athena (Metapontum)
this entity surface form:
city-state of Metapontum