Corinth
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Corinth was an influential ancient Greek city-state strategically located on the Isthmus of Corinth, known for its wealth, maritime trade, and cultural significance.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corinth canonical | 155 |
| city of Corinth | 4 |
| ancient Corinth | 3 |
| Ancient Corinth | 2 |
| City of Corinth | 1 |
| Corinth (Principality of Achaea, at times) | 1 |
| Corinth (provincial capital of Achaia) | 1 |
| Corinth (traditionally) | 1 |
| Corinth in the Peloponnese | 1 |
| Corinthian polis | 1 |
| Roman Corinth | 1 |
| city-state of Corinth | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T467209 — 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: Corinth Context triple: [Greek Antiquity, hasNotableCity, Corinth]
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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.
Piraeus
Piraeus is the main port of Athens and one of the largest and busiest seaports in the Mediterranean, serving as a key hub for Greek and international maritime trade and passenger transport.
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D.
Philippi
Philippi was an ancient city in eastern Macedonia, notable in early Christianity as the site of one of the first European churches and a key location in the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul.
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E.
Epidaurus
Epidaurus is an ancient Greek city renowned for its healing sanctuary of Asclepius and its remarkably well-preserved theater, a masterpiece of classical architecture and acoustics.
- 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: Corinth Target entity description: Corinth was an influential ancient Greek city-state strategically located on the Isthmus of Corinth, known for its wealth, maritime trade, and cultural significance.
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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.
Piraeus
Piraeus is the main port of Athens and one of the largest and busiest seaports in the Mediterranean, serving as a key hub for Greek and international maritime trade and passenger transport.
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D.
Philippi
Philippi was an ancient city in eastern Macedonia, notable in early Christianity as the site of one of the first European churches and a key location in the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul.
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E.
Epidaurus
Epidaurus is an ancient Greek city renowned for its healing sanctuary of Asclepius and its remarkably well-preserved theater, a masterpiece of classical architecture and acoustics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Corinth Description of subject: Corinth was an influential ancient Greek city-state strategically located on the Isthmus of Corinth, known for its wealth, maritime trade, and cultural significance.
Referenced by (172)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Epistle to the Romans
this entity surface form:
ancient Corinth
this entity surface form:
Ancient Corinth
this entity surface form:
city of Corinth
this entity surface form:
City of Corinth