Newstead
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Newstead is a notable Roman military site in Scotland where significant remains of lorica segmentata armor and other artifacts have been discovered.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newstead canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9486986 — 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: Newstead Context triple: [lorica segmentata, archaeologicalSites, Newstead]
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A.
Newstead
Newstead is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, best known for being the location of the historic Newstead Abbey, former home of the poet Lord Byron.
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B.
Newstead Abbey
Newstead Abbey is a historic former Augustinian priory in Nottinghamshire, England, best known as the ancestral home of the poet Lord Byron.
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C.
Goodnestone
Goodnestone is a small rural village and civil parish in Kent, England, known for its historic church and the nearby Goodnestone Park estate.
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D.
Stanborough Park
Stanborough Park is a large public park in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, known for its lakes, open green spaces, and recreational facilities.
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E.
Wakehurst
Wakehurst is a historic mansion and prominent campus building at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, known for its Tudor-style architecture and role as a student and event center.
- 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: Newstead Target entity description: Newstead is a notable Roman military site in Scotland where significant remains of lorica segmentata armor and other artifacts have been discovered.
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A.
Newstead
Newstead is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, best known for being the location of the historic Newstead Abbey, former home of the poet Lord Byron.
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B.
Newstead Abbey
Newstead Abbey is a historic former Augustinian priory in Nottinghamshire, England, best known as the ancestral home of the poet Lord Byron.
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C.
Goodnestone
Goodnestone is a small rural village and civil parish in Kent, England, known for its historic church and the nearby Goodnestone Park estate.
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D.
Stanborough Park
Stanborough Park is a large public park in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, known for its lakes, open green spaces, and recreational facilities.
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E.
Wakehurst
Wakehurst is a historic mansion and prominent campus building at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, known for its Tudor-style architecture and role as a student and event center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman military site
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Scheduled Monument ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ |
| coordinateType | archaeological coordinates recorded ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| currentUse | archaeological and heritage site ⓘ |
| excavatedBy | James Curle ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Newstead Roman Fort
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Trimontium ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSiteType |
Roman fort
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Roman military complex ⓘ |
| hasDiscovery |
Roman military equipment
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Roman pottery ⓘ Roman weapons ⓘ building remains ⓘ coins ⓘ defensive ditches ⓘ horse harness fittings ⓘ inscribed stones ⓘ internal building foundations ⓘ lorica segmentata armor fragments ⓘ metalwork artifacts ⓘ ramparts ⓘ |
| hasEvidenceOf |
Roman cavalry presence
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Roman infantry presence ⓘ Roman road connections ⓘ Roman supply and storage facilities ⓘ |
| hasMuseumCollectionAt |
National Museums Scotland
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linked to:
National Museum of Scotland
Trimontium Museum, Melrose ⓘ |
| hasNotablePublication | “A Roman Frontier Post and its People: The Fort of Newstead in the Parish of Melrose” ⓘ |
| hasSiteFunction |
frontier post
ⓘ
military garrison ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | Scheduled Monument ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Scottish Borders ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Borders region of Scotland ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Melrose
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River Tweed ⓘ |
| managedBy | Historic Environment Scotland ⓘ |
| occupiedDuring |
2nd century CE
ⓘ
late 1st century CE ⓘ |
| partOf |
Roman frontier system in Britain
ⓘ
linked to:
frontiers of the Roman Empire
|
| period | Roman period ⓘ |
| significance |
important evidence for lorica segmentata construction
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key source for study of Roman army equipment in Britain ⓘ |
| usedBy | Roman army ⓘ |
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: Newstead Description of subject: Newstead is a notable Roman military site in Scotland where significant remains of lorica segmentata armor and other artifacts have been discovered.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.