Mogontiacum
E710590
Roman military camp
Roman provincial capital
ancient city
archaeological site
former populated place
Mogontiacum was the major Roman military and administrative settlement that later developed into the modern German city of Mainz.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mogontiacum canonical | 25 |
| Mogontiacum (Mainz) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8090981 — 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: Mogontiacum Context triple: [Mainz, hasHistoricalName, Mogontiacum]
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A.
Teanum Sidicinum
Teanum Sidicinum was an important ancient city in Campania, Italy, serving as the chief urban center of the Sidicini people and later becoming a notable Roman municipality.
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B.
Argentoratum
Argentoratum is the ancient Roman military camp and settlement that later developed into the modern city of Strasbourg in northeastern France.
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C.
Aquincum
Aquincum was an important ancient Roman military and civilian settlement located in what is now northern Budapest, Hungary.
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D.
Bracara Augusta
Bracara Augusta was an important Roman city in the province of Gallaecia, which later evolved into the modern Portuguese city of Braga.
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E.
Hadrumetum
Hadrumetum was an important ancient Phoenician and later Roman port city located on the coast of modern-day Tunisia.
- 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: Mogontiacum Target entity description: Mogontiacum was the major Roman military and administrative settlement that later developed into the modern German city of Mainz.
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A.
Teanum Sidicinum
Teanum Sidicinum was an important ancient city in Campania, Italy, serving as the chief urban center of the Sidicini people and later becoming a notable Roman municipality.
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B.
Argentoratum
Argentoratum is the ancient Roman military camp and settlement that later developed into the modern city of Strasbourg in northeastern France.
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C.
Aquincum
Aquincum was an important ancient Roman military and civilian settlement located in what is now northern Budapest, Hungary.
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D.
Bracara Augusta
Bracara Augusta was an important Roman city in the province of Gallaecia, which later evolved into the modern Portuguese city of Braga.
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E.
Hadrumetum
Hadrumetum was an important ancient Phoenician and later Roman port city located on the coast of modern-day Tunisia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman military camp
ⓘ
Roman provincial capital ⓘ ancient city ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ former populated place ⓘ |
| archaeologicalRemainsFoundIn |
Mainz city center
ⓘ
linked to:
Mainz
|
| developedInto | Mainz ⓘ |
| foundedAround | 13 BC ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Roman legionary fortress ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| foundedUnder | Augustus ⓘ |
| garrisonedBy |
Legio I Adiutrix
ⓘ
Legio XIV Gemina ⓘ Legio XVI Gallica ⓘ Legio XXI Rapax ⓘ Legio XXII Primigenia ⓘ Roman legions ⓘ
linked to:
Roman legion
|
| hadStatus |
colonia
ⓘ
municipium ⓘ |
| hadStructure |
amphitheatre
ⓘ
aqueduct ⓘ bridge over the Rhine ⓘ city walls ⓘ legionary fortress ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Germania Superior
ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay |
Germany
ⓘ
Mainz ⓘ Rhineland-Palatinate ⓘ |
| locatedNear | confluence of the Rhine and Main rivers ⓘ |
| locatedOn | left bank of the Rhine ⓘ |
| modernName | Mainz ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Celtic deity Mogons ⓘ |
| populationType | military and civilian settlement ⓘ |
| regionHistorically |
Rhenish Hesse
ⓘ
linked to:
Rhineland-Palatinate
|
| servedAs |
administrative center
ⓘ
capital of the Roman province of Germania Superior ⓘ major Roman military base on the Rhine frontier ⓘ |
| successorSettlement |
early medieval Mainz
ⓘ
linked to:
City of Mainz
|
| timePeriod | 1st century BC to late antiquity ⓘ |
| wasDestroyedPartlyBy |
Germanic invasions
ⓘ
linked to:
Migration Period in Europe
|
| wasHeadquartersOf |
Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes frontier command
ⓘ
linked to:
Limes Germanicus
|
| wasImportantFor |
control of Rhine crossings
ⓘ
trade and logistics on the Rhine frontier ⓘ |
| wasOccupiedUntil | late Roman period ⓘ |
| wasPartOf |
Roman frontier system on the Rhine
ⓘ
linked to:
Rhine frontier
|
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: Mogontiacum Description of subject: Mogontiacum was the major Roman military and administrative settlement that later developed into the modern German city of Mainz.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mogontiacum
subject linked to:
Drususstein (monument at Mogontiacum/Mainz)
subject linked to:
Roman province of Germania Superior
subject linked to:
Roman province of Germania Superior