Isidore of Miletus
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Isidore of Miletus was a 6th-century Byzantine architect and engineer best known for co-designing the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople under Emperor Justinian I.
All labels observed (1)
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| Isidore of Miletus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7280759 — 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: Isidore of Miletus Context triple: [Anthemius of Tralles, coArchitectWith, Isidore of Miletus]
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Anthemius of Tralles
Anthemius of Tralles was a 6th-century Byzantine architect and mathematician renowned for co-designing Constantinople’s monumental Hagia Sophia under Emperor Justinian I.
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Dionysius of Paris
Dionysius of Paris is a 3rd-century Christian martyr and the first bishop of Paris, venerated as the patron saint of France and commonly known as Saint Denis.
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Zenodotus of Ephesus
Zenodotus of Ephesus was an ancient Greek grammarian and scholar, best known as the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria and an early editor of Homeric poetry.
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Apollodorus of Damascus
Apollodorus of Damascus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman architect and engineer known for designing major imperial projects under Emperor Trajan, including monumental buildings and infrastructure across the Roman Empire.
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Theophanes the Cretan
Theophanes the Cretan was a prominent 16th-century Cretan icon painter and monk, renowned as one of the leading figures of the post-Byzantine artistic tradition in Greece.
- 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: Isidore of Miletus Target entity description: Isidore of Miletus was a 6th-century Byzantine architect and engineer best known for co-designing the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople under Emperor Justinian I.
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Anthemius of Tralles
Anthemius of Tralles was a 6th-century Byzantine architect and mathematician renowned for co-designing Constantinople’s monumental Hagia Sophia under Emperor Justinian I.
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B.
Dionysius of Paris
Dionysius of Paris is a 3rd-century Christian martyr and the first bishop of Paris, venerated as the patron saint of France and commonly known as Saint Denis.
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C.
Zenodotus of Ephesus
Zenodotus of Ephesus was an ancient Greek grammarian and scholar, best known as the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria and an early editor of Homeric poetry.
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Apollodorus of Damascus
Apollodorus of Damascus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman architect and engineer known for designing major imperial projects under Emperor Trajan, including monumental buildings and infrastructure across the Roman Empire.
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E.
Theophanes the Cretan
Theophanes the Cretan was a prominent 16th-century Cretan icon painter and monk, renowned as one of the leading figures of the post-Byzantine artistic tradition in Greece.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Isidore of Miletus Description of subject: Isidore of Miletus was a 6th-century Byzantine architect and engineer best known for co-designing the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople under Emperor Justinian I.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.