Ipsus
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Ipsus was an ancient town in Phrygia, in Asia Minor, best known as the site of the decisive Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC during the Wars of the Diadochi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ipsus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8345692 — 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: Ipsus Context triple: [Antigonus I Monophthalmus, deathPlace, Ipsus]
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A.
Troesmis
Troesmis was an ancient Roman military and urban settlement in the province of Moesia, strategically located near the Danube River in what is now Romania.
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B.
Hipponion
Hipponion was an ancient Greek city in southern Italy, notable as an important center of Magna Graecia and for archaeological finds such as Orphic gold tablets.
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C.
Samosata
Samosata was an ancient city on the upper Euphrates, historically significant as a strategic and cultural center in what is now southeastern Turkey.
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D.
Assos
Assos is a picturesque coastal village on the Greek island of Kefalonia, known for its colorful houses, Venetian fortress, and scenic harbor.
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E.
Assos
Assos was an ancient Greek city in the Troad region of Asia Minor, known as a philosophical center where figures like Aristotle once lived and taught.
- 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: Ipsus Target entity description: Ipsus was an ancient town in Phrygia, in Asia Minor, best known as the site of the decisive Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC during the Wars of the Diadochi.
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A.
Troesmis
Troesmis was an ancient Roman military and urban settlement in the province of Moesia, strategically located near the Danube River in what is now Romania.
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B.
Hipponion
Hipponion was an ancient Greek city in southern Italy, notable as an important center of Magna Graecia and for archaeological finds such as Orphic gold tablets.
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C.
Samosata
Samosata was an ancient city on the upper Euphrates, historically significant as a strategic and cultural center in what is now southeastern Turkey.
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D.
Assos
Assos is a picturesque coastal village on the Greek island of Kefalonia, known for its colorful houses, Venetian fortress, and scenic harbor.
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E.
Assos
Assos was an ancient Greek city in the Troad region of Asia Minor, known as a philosophical center where figures like Aristotle once lived and taught.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient town
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| afterEvent | redivision of Alexander the Great's empire ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Successor kingdoms of Alexander the Great
ⓘ
linked to:
Hellenistic kingdoms
Wars of the Diadochi ⓘ |
| culture |
Hellenistic Greek
ⓘ
linked to:
Koine Greek
|
| eventDate | 301 BC ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Hellenistic monarchies
ⓘ
linked to:
Hellenistic kingdoms
|
| historicalPeriod | Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
Ancient Phrygia
ⓘ
linked to:
Phrygia
|
| knownFor | Battle of Ipsus ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Asia Minor
ⓘ
Phrygia ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Turkey ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Diodorus Siculus
ⓘ
Plutarch ⓘ other classical historians ⓘ |
| namedAfterEvent |
Battle of Ipsus (301 BC)
ⓘ
linked to:
Battle of Ipsus
|
| near |
central Anatolia
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Anatolia Region
|
| partOf |
Hellenistic world
ⓘ
linked to:
Hellenistic period
|
| precededBy | Macedonian control under Alexander the Great ⓘ |
| significance | site of decisive battle in Wars of the Diadochi ⓘ |
| sourceType | ancient historical texts ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | military crossroads in inland Asia Minor ⓘ |
| terrain | inland plateau region ⓘ |
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: Ipsus Description of subject: Ipsus was an ancient town in Phrygia, in Asia Minor, best known as the site of the decisive Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC during the Wars of the Diadochi.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.