Quintilis
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Quintilis was the original Latin name for the month later known as July in the Roman calendar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quintilis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5528790 — 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: Quintilis Context triple: [July, wasRenamedFrom, Quintilis]
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A.
Sextilia
Sextilia was a Roman noblewoman of the 1st century AD, best known as the mother of the emperor Aulus Vitellius.
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B.
Vinalia
Vinalia was an ancient Roman festival dedicated to wine and the protection of the grape harvest, associated especially with Jupiter and Venus.
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C.
Januária
Januária was a Brazilian princess of the Empire of Brazil, daughter of Emperor Pedro I and heir presumptive before the birth of her younger brother Pedro II.
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D.
Fasti
Fasti is a poetic work by the Roman poet Ovid that explores the Roman calendar, its festivals, and associated myths in elegiac verse.
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E.
Vinalia Faculae
Vinalia Faculae are bright, reflective deposits on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, notable for their high albedo and association with possible brine-related geological activity.
- 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: Quintilis Target entity description: Quintilis was the original Latin name for the month later known as July in the Roman calendar.
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A.
Sextilia
Sextilia was a Roman noblewoman of the 1st century AD, best known as the mother of the emperor Aulus Vitellius.
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B.
Vinalia
Vinalia was an ancient Roman festival dedicated to wine and the protection of the grape harvest, associated especially with Jupiter and Venus.
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C.
Januária
Januária was a Brazilian princess of the Empire of Brazil, daughter of Emperor Pedro I and heir presumptive before the birth of her younger brother Pedro II.
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D.
Fasti
Fasti is a poetic work by the Roman poet Ovid that explores the Roman calendar, its festivals, and associated myths in elegiac verse.
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E.
Vinalia Faculae
Vinalia Faculae are bright, reflective deposits on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, notable for their high albedo and association with possible brine-related geological activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman calendar month
ⓘ
month ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| calendarSystem |
Julian calendar
ⓘ
pre-Julian Roman calendar ⓘ
linked to:
Roman calendar
|
| etymology | Latin for "fifth" ⓘ |
| follows | Iunius ⓘ |
| hasNumericDesignation | V ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| modernEquivalent | July ⓘ |
| namedAccordingTo | original Roman month-numbering system ⓘ |
| originalNameOf | July ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman year ⓘ |
| positionInYear | seventh month ⓘ |
| precedes | Sextilis ⓘ |
| preJulianCalendarPosition | fifth month ⓘ |
| renamedInHonorOf | Gaius Julius Caesar ⓘ |
| renamedTo |
Iulius
ⓘ
linked to:
Julius
July ⓘ |
| renamingApproximateDate | 44 BC ⓘ |
| renamingDecidedBy | Roman Senate ⓘ |
| replacedBy | July in common usage ⓘ |
| seasonInNorthernHemisphere | summer ⓘ |
| seasonInSouthernHemisphere | winter ⓘ |
| statusInModernUsage | historical name ⓘ |
| typicalLength | 31 days ⓘ |
| usedIn | Roman calendar ⓘ |
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: Quintilis Description of subject: Quintilis was the original Latin name for the month later known as July in the Roman calendar.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.