Altius
E786019
Altius is a Latin word meaning "higher," best known as part of the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Faster, Higher, Stronger").
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Altius canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9218015 — 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: Altius Context triple: [Fortius, follows, Altius]
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A.
Axius
Axius is the ancient name of the Orontes River, a historically significant waterway in the Near East that flows through modern-day Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.
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B.
Altair
Altair is a bright, nearby A-type main-sequence star in the constellation Aquila and one of the three stars forming the prominent Summer Triangle asterism.
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C.
Aternus
Aternus is an ancient river in central Italy historically associated with the territory of the Marrucini people.
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D.
Avisio
Avisio is a river in northern Italy that flows through the Trentino region before joining the Adige.
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E.
Anthemous
Anthemous was an ancient region of Macedonia located adjacent to Bottiaea, known from classical Greek geography and history.
- 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: Altius
Target entity description: Altius is a Latin word meaning "higher," best known as part of the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Faster, Higher, Stronger").
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A.
Axius
Axius is the ancient name of the Orontes River, a historically significant waterway in the Near East that flows through modern-day Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.
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B.
Altair
Altair is a bright, nearby A-type main-sequence star in the constellation Aquila and one of the three stars forming the prominent Summer Triangle asterism.
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C.
Aternus
Aternus is an ancient river in central Italy historically associated with the territory of the Marrucini people.
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D.
Avisio
Avisio is a river in northern Italy that flows through the Trentino region before joining the Adige.
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E.
Anthemous
Anthemous was an ancient region of Macedonia located adjacent to Bottiaea, known from classical Greek geography and history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Latin word ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Olympic Games ⓘ |
| connotation |
aspiration
ⓘ
improvement ⓘ |
| coOccursWith |
Citius
ⓘ
Fortius ⓘ |
| degreeComparison | comparative of altitude or height ⓘ |
| etymologicalRelation | altus ⓘ |
| grammaticalForm | comparative degree ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| meaningInEnglish | higher ⓘ |
| mottoComponentOrder | second word ⓘ |
| partOf | Citius, Altius, Fortius ⓘ |
| partOfSpeech | adverb ⓘ |
| rootForm | altus ⓘ |
| rootMeaning | high ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| semanticField |
excellence
ⓘ
height ⓘ |
| usedBy | International Olympic Committee ⓘ |
| usedIn | Olympic motto ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
athletics
ⓘ
sports ⓘ |
| usedToExpress |
greater height
ⓘ
higher achievement ⓘ |
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: Altius
Description of subject: Altius is a Latin word meaning "higher," best known as part of the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Faster, Higher, Stronger").
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.