IV
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IV is the Roman numeral representing the number four, commonly used in outlines, legal documents, and traditional numbering systems.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T615995 — 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: IV Context triple: [Article IV (Genocide Convention), hasRomanNumber, IV]
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A.
V.
V. is Thomas Pynchon's 1963 debut novel, a complex, postmodern work that interweaves multiple narratives and historical periods in a quest surrounding the mysterious figure or concept known only as "V."
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B.
IC
IC is a common abbreviation for Iowa City, a university-centered community best known as the home of the University of Iowa and its renowned Writers' Workshop.
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It
It is a 1986 horror novel by Stephen King about a shape-shifting entity that terrorizes children in the town of Derry, Maine.
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D.
SV
SV is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to El Salvador.
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If
"If" is a 1993 Janet Jackson song known for its fusion of R&B, rock, and industrial sounds, sexually assertive lyrics, and innovative, high-energy choreography in its music video.
- 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: IV Target entity description: IV is the Roman numeral representing the number four, commonly used in outlines, legal documents, and traditional numbering systems.
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A.
V.
V. is Thomas Pynchon's 1963 debut novel, a complex, postmodern work that interweaves multiple narratives and historical periods in a quest surrounding the mysterious figure or concept known only as "V."
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B.
IC
IC is a common abbreviation for Iowa City, a university-centered community best known as the home of the University of Iowa and its renowned Writers' Workshop.
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C.
It
It is a 1986 horror novel by Stephen King about a shape-shifting entity that terrorizes children in the town of Derry, Maine.
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D.
SV
SV is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to El Salvador.
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E.
If
"If" is a 1993 Janet Jackson song known for its fusion of R&B, rock, and industrial sounds, sexually assertive lyrics, and innovative, high-energy choreography in its music video.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Roman numeral ⓘ |
| category | numeral ⓘ |
| commonUseCase |
chapter numbering
ⓘ
clock faces ⓘ event editions ⓘ section numbering ⓘ volume numbering ⓘ |
| digitCount | 2 ⓘ |
| firstSymbolValue | 1 ⓘ |
| follows | III ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeArabicNumeral | 4 ⓘ |
| hasNumericValue | 4 ⓘ |
| isComposedOf |
I
ⓘ
V ⓘ |
| isGreaterThan | III ⓘ |
| isLessThan | V ⓘ |
| isPartOf | set of Roman numerals ⓘ |
| isStandardForm | true ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
legal documents
ⓘ
outlines ⓘ traditional numbering systems ⓘ |
| languageContext | Latin ⓘ |
| notationSystem | Roman numeral system ⓘ |
| precedes | V ⓘ |
| representsNumber | 4 ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| secondSymbolValue | 5 ⓘ |
| subtractiveRule | 1 subtracted from 5 equals 4 ⓘ |
| symbolType | additive-subtractive numeral ⓘ |
| usesSubtractiveNotation | true ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
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: IV Description of subject: IV is the Roman numeral representing the number four, commonly used in outlines, legal documents, and traditional numbering systems.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Article IV
subject linked to:
Philip the Great
linked to: IV
subject linked to:
Hagerty