Isaura Nea
E726479
Isaura Nea was an ancient city that served as the principal urban and administrative center of the historical region of Isauria in Asia Minor.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isaura Nea canonical | 1 |
| Isaura Nova | 1 |
| Isaura Vetus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8311159 — 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: Isaura Nea Context triple: [Isauria, hasCapital, Isaura Nea]
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A.
Ainaro
Ainaro is a mountainous municipality in central-southern Timor-Leste known for its rural communities and use of the Mambae language.
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B.
Heleia
Heleia is a genus of small passerine birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae, found primarily in Southeast Asia and nearby islands.
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C.
Melibea
Melibea is the noble young woman in the Spanish tragicomedy "La Celestina," whose passionate and ill-fated love affair with Calisto drives the work’s central drama.
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D.
Megara
Megara is an ancient Greek city-state in the region of Attica, historically known for its strategic location near the Isthmus of Corinth and its role in early Greek philosophy and colonization.
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E.
Megara
Megara is a figure in Greek mythology known as the first wife of the hero Heracles, whose tragic fate helped set in motion his famous labors.
- 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: Isaura Nea Target entity description: Isaura Nea was an ancient city that served as the principal urban and administrative center of the historical region of Isauria in Asia Minor.
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A.
Ainaro
Ainaro is a mountainous municipality in central-southern Timor-Leste known for its rural communities and use of the Mambae language.
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B.
Heleia
Heleia is a genus of small passerine birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae, found primarily in Southeast Asia and nearby islands.
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C.
Melibea
Melibea is the noble young woman in the Spanish tragicomedy "La Celestina," whose passionate and ill-fated love affair with Calisto drives the work’s central drama.
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D.
Megara
Megara is an ancient Greek city-state in the region of Attica, historically known for its strategic location near the Isthmus of Corinth and its role in early Greek philosophy and colonization.
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E.
Megara
Megara is a figure in Greek mythology known as the first wife of the hero Heracles, whose tragic fate helped set in motion his famous labors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| countryDuringRomanPeriod | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| culture |
Greco-Roman
ⓘ
linked to:
Greco-Roman period
|
| flourishedInPeriod |
Late Antiquity
ⓘ
Roman Imperial period ⓘ |
| governedUnder | Roman provincial administration ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Isaura Nova
ⓘ
linked to:
Isaura Nea
New Isaura ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administrative center
ⓘ
urban center ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
center of Isaurian regional power
ⓘ
key administrative hub in interior Asia Minor ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Cilicia-Isauria borderlands
ⓘ
linked to:
Cilicia
|
| languageInUse |
Greek
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| laterReligionPracticed | Christianity ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Anatolia
ⓘ
Asia Minor ⓘ Isauria ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Turkey ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Asia ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman provincial system in Asia Minor ⓘ |
| regionDuringRomanPeriod | Isauria ⓘ |
| religionPracticed | Greco-Roman polytheism ⓘ |
| replaced | Isaura Palaia ⓘ |
| servedAs |
administrative center of Isauria
ⓘ
principal urban center of Isauria ⓘ |
| successorOf | Isaura Palaia ⓘ |
| urbanType | fortified city ⓘ |
| usedAs | administrative center of the Isaurian territory ⓘ |
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: Isaura Nea Description of subject: Isaura Nea was an ancient city that served as the principal urban and administrative center of the historical region of Isauria in Asia Minor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Isaura Nea
linked to: Isaura Nea