Basilica Opimia
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Basilica Opimia was an ancient Roman basilica built in the Roman Forum near the Temple of Concord, serving as a public and judicial building.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Basilica Opimia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9308429 — 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: Basilica Opimia Context triple: [Basilica Opimia, hasLatinName, Basilica Opimia]
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A.
Basilica Aemilia
Basilica Aemilia was an important ancient Roman public basilica on the Forum Romanum, renowned for its elegant architecture and role as a center of commerce and legal affairs.
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B.
Basilica Sempronia
Basilica Sempronia was an ancient Roman basilica in the Forum Romanum, built in the 2nd century BCE and later demolished to make way for the larger and more famous Basilica Julia.
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C.
Basilica Julia
Basilica Julia was a grand public building and law court in the Roman Forum, commissioned by Julius Caesar and later completed by Augustus, used primarily for legal proceedings and commercial activities.
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D.
Basilica Porcia
Basilica Porcia was the first permanent law court and public basilica built in ancient Rome, commissioned by Cato the Elder in the 2nd century BCE.
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E.
Temple of Virtus
The Temple of Virtus was an ancient Roman sanctuary dedicated to the personification of courage and virtue, traditionally located on Rome’s Capitoline Hill.
- 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: Basilica Opimia Target entity description: Basilica Opimia was an ancient Roman basilica built in the Roman Forum near the Temple of Concord, serving as a public and judicial building.
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A.
Basilica Aemilia
Basilica Aemilia was an important ancient Roman public basilica on the Forum Romanum, renowned for its elegant architecture and role as a center of commerce and legal affairs.
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B.
Basilica Sempronia
Basilica Sempronia was an ancient Roman basilica in the Forum Romanum, built in the 2nd century BCE and later demolished to make way for the larger and more famous Basilica Julia.
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C.
Basilica Julia
Basilica Julia was a grand public building and law court in the Roman Forum, commissioned by Julius Caesar and later completed by Augustus, used primarily for legal proceedings and commercial activities.
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D.
Basilica Porcia
Basilica Porcia was the first permanent law court and public basilica built in ancient Rome, commissioned by Cato the Elder in the 2nd century BCE.
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E.
Temple of Virtus
The Temple of Virtus was an ancient Roman sanctuary dedicated to the personification of courage and virtue, traditionally located on Rome’s Capitoline Hill.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman basilica
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judicial building ⓘ public building ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Temple of Concord ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Roman basilica ⓘ |
| builder | Lucius Opimius ⓘ |
| builtNear | Temple of Concord ⓘ |
| constructionCompletedIn | 2nd century BC ⓘ |
| country | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Roman law
ⓘ
Roman public life ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | public business ⓘ |
| demolished | late Republic or early Empire ⓘ |
| floorPlanType | rectangular basilica ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Ancient Roman basilicas
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Buildings and structures of the Roman Forum ⓘ Destroyed buildings and structures in Italy ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
meeting place
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space for business transactions ⓘ space for legal courts ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | archaeological site (remains only) ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| inception | 2nd century BC ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Forum Romanum archaeological area
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linked to:
Forum Romanum
Roman Forum ⓘ Rome ⓘ ancient Rome ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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| materialUsed |
marble
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stone ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | ancient literary sources ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lucius Opimius ⓘ |
| noLongerExists | true ⓘ |
| partOf |
Roman Forum complex
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Forum
civic architecture of the Roman Forum ⓘ |
| replacedBy | later expansions of the Temple of Concord ⓘ |
| topographicalContext | Capitoline Hill area ⓘ |
| usedFor |
commercial activities
ⓘ
judicial proceedings ⓘ legal business ⓘ |
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: Basilica Opimia Description of subject: Basilica Opimia was an ancient Roman basilica built in the Roman Forum near the Temple of Concord, serving as a public and judicial building.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period)