Cerealia
E819335
Cerealia was an ancient Roman festival held in honor of the goddess Ceres, celebrating agriculture, grain, and the renewal of life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cerealia canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9768703 — 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: Cerealia Context triple: [Ceres, festival, Cerealia]
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A.
Agro Romano
Agro Romano is a historic rural area surrounding Rome in the Lazio region of Italy, known for its agricultural landscape and scattered towns and settlements.
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B.
Ascea
Ascea is a coastal town in southern Italy’s Cilento region, known for its beaches, archaeological sites, and proximity to the ancient city of Elea (Velia).
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C.
Statilia
Statilia is an ancient Roman feminine praenomen (given name) most notably borne by the empress Statilia Messalina, wife of Emperor Nero.
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D.
Ager Norbanus
Ager Norbanus was a rural district of ancient Roman territory in Latium associated with the town of Norba and its surrounding lands.
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E.
Maenza
Maenza is a small historic town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its medieval architecture and hilltop setting.
- 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: Cerealia Target entity description: Cerealia was an ancient Roman festival held in honor of the goddess Ceres, celebrating agriculture, grain, and the renewal of life.
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A.
Agro Romano
Agro Romano is a historic rural area surrounding Rome in the Lazio region of Italy, known for its agricultural landscape and scattered towns and settlements.
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B.
Ascea
Ascea is a coastal town in southern Italy’s Cilento region, known for its beaches, archaeological sites, and proximity to the ancient city of Elea (Velia).
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C.
Statilia
Statilia is an ancient Roman feminine praenomen (given name) most notably borne by the empress Statilia Messalina, wife of Emperor Nero.
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D.
Ager Norbanus
Ager Norbanus was a rural district of ancient Roman territory in Latium associated with the town of Norba and its surrounding lands.
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E.
Maenza
Maenza is a small historic town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its medieval architecture and hilltop setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman festival
ⓘ
religious festival ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agriculture
ⓘ
fertility ⓘ grain ⓘ renewal of life ⓘ |
| category |
Agricultural festivals
ⓘ
Ancient Roman festivals ⓘ Festivals of Ceres ⓘ |
| celebratedBy | Romans ⓘ |
| celebratedIn | Rome ⓘ |
| commemorates | benefits of agriculture ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ancient Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
|
| culture | Roman ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
grain cultivation
ⓘ
rural life ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
community participation
ⓘ
public worship ⓘ ritual offerings ⓘ seasonal celebration ⓘ |
| hasEtymology | derived from the name Ceres ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
continuity of life
ⓘ
protection of crops ⓘ thanks for harvest ⓘ |
| honors | Ceres ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
food security
ⓘ
grain supply ⓘ |
| mainDeity | Ceres ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman religious calendar ⓘ |
| patronGoddess | Ceres ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Ceres
ⓘ
agricultural deities ⓘ |
| religion | Roman religion ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | state cult of Rome ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
abundance
ⓘ
growth ⓘ renewal ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| typeOfRite |
agricultural festival
ⓘ
fertility rite ⓘ |
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: Cerealia Description of subject: Cerealia was an ancient Roman festival held in honor of the goddess Ceres, celebrating agriculture, grain, and the renewal of life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.