Segodunum
E662072
Segodunum is the ancient Celtic name of the town now known as Rodez in southern France, which was an important settlement of the Ruteni tribe in Roman Gaul.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Segodunum canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7412457 — 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: Segodunum Context triple: [Rodez, historicalName, Segodunum]
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A.
Duranus
Duranus is a small rural commune in southeastern France, located in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.
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B.
Caesarobriga
Caesarobriga was the Roman-era settlement that later became the modern Spanish city of Talavera de la Reina.
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C.
Italica
Italica was an ancient Roman city in Hispania (near modern Seville, Spain), notable as the birthplace of emperors Trajan and Hadrian.
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D.
Thugga
Thugga is an ancient Roman-Berber city in modern-day Tunisia renowned for its well-preserved ruins and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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E.
Rumuola
Rumuola is a prominent urban neighborhood and transport hub in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
- 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: Segodunum Target entity description: Segodunum is the ancient Celtic name of the town now known as Rodez in southern France, which was an important settlement of the Ruteni tribe in Roman Gaul.
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A.
Duranus
Duranus is a small rural commune in southeastern France, located in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.
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B.
Caesarobriga
Caesarobriga was the Roman-era settlement that later became the modern Spanish city of Talavera de la Reina.
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C.
Italica
Italica was an ancient Roman city in Hispania (near modern Seville, Spain), notable as the birthplace of emperors Trajan and Hadrian.
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D.
Thugga
Thugga is an ancient Roman-Berber city in modern-day Tunisia renowned for its well-preserved ruins and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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E.
Rumuola
Rumuola is a prominent urban neighborhood and transport hub in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Celtic place name
ⓘ
ancient settlement ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Celtic Gaul
ⓘ
linked to:
Gallia Celtica
Romanization of Gaul ⓘ |
| associatedWithEthnicGroup |
Ruteni
ⓘ
linked to:
Ruthena
|
| country | France ⓘ |
| culture | Celtic ⓘ |
| hasType |
fortified town
ⓘ
oppidum ⓘ |
| historicalNameOf | Rodez ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Gaulish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gaul
ⓘ
Rodez ⓘ Roman Gaul ⓘ
linked to:
Gaul
province of Aquitania (Roman Empire) ⓘ
linked to:
Roman province of Aquitania
southern France ⓘ southwestern Massif Central ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Aveyron plateau
ⓘ
linked to:
Lévézou plateau
|
| modernEquivalent | Rodez ⓘ |
| partOf | territory of the Ruteni ⓘ |
| presentInSource | ancient geographical and historical texts ⓘ |
| region | Occitanie ⓘ |
| significance | important settlement of the Ruteni tribe ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Iron Age
ⓘ
Roman period ⓘ |
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: Segodunum Description of subject: Segodunum is the ancient Celtic name of the town now known as Rodez in southern France, which was an important settlement of the Ruteni tribe in Roman Gaul.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Rutheni (ancient Ruteni people)