Centumcellae
E831380
Centumcellae is the ancient Roman name for the port city now known as Civitavecchia on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Centumcellae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9939276 — 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: Centumcellae Context triple: [Civitavecchia, historicalName, Centumcellae]
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A.
Novempopulania
Novempopulania was a late Roman province in southwestern Gaul, roughly corresponding to parts of modern Aquitaine and Gascony in France.
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B.
Cavillonum
Cavillonum is the ancient Roman-era name for the town now known as Chalon-sur-Saône in eastern France.
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C.
Bituriges Vivisci
The Bituriges Vivisci were an ancient Celtic tribe of southwestern Gaul, known as the inhabitants of the region around present-day Bordeaux before Roman rule.
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D.
Noviodunum
Noviodunum was an important Roman military and naval base on the lower Danube, in the province of Moesia (modern-day Romania).
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E.
Suessiones
The Suessiones were an ancient Celtic tribe of northern Gaul, known from Julius Caesar’s accounts as one of the principal Belgic peoples during the Gallic Wars.
- 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: Centumcellae Target entity description: Centumcellae is the ancient Roman name for the port city now known as Civitavecchia on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy.
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A.
Novempopulania
Novempopulania was a late Roman province in southwestern Gaul, roughly corresponding to parts of modern Aquitaine and Gascony in France.
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B.
Cavillonum
Cavillonum is the ancient Roman-era name for the town now known as Chalon-sur-Saône in eastern France.
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C.
Bituriges Vivisci
The Bituriges Vivisci were an ancient Celtic tribe of southwestern Gaul, known as the inhabitants of the region around present-day Bordeaux before Roman rule.
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D.
Noviodunum
Noviodunum was an important Roman military and naval base on the lower Danube, in the province of Moesia (modern-day Romania).
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E.
Suessiones
The Suessiones were an ancient Celtic tribe of northern Gaul, known from Julius Caesar’s accounts as one of the principal Belgic peoples during the Gallic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman city
ⓘ
ancient port ⓘ historical place name ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Trajan ⓘ |
| coastType |
Tyrrhenian coast
ⓘ
linked to:
Tyrrhenian Sea coast
|
| countryDuringRomanPeriod | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| developedUnder | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
naval base
ⓘ
seaport ⓘ |
| hasHarbor |
artificial harbor
ⓘ
commercial harbor ⓘ military harbor ⓘ |
| hasModernName | Civitavecchia ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Italy ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricalRegion | Etruria ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDayProvince | Metropolitan City of Rome Capital ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Lazio ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | Rome ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Tyrrhenian Sea
ⓘ
western coast of central Italy ⓘ |
| modernMunicipality | Civitavecchia ⓘ |
| nameMeaningApproximate | hundred small inlets ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| portOf | Rome ⓘ |
| successorSettlement | Civitavecchia ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Imperial Roman period ⓘ |
| usedAs |
port of embarkation
ⓘ
strategic naval port ⓘ trading port ⓘ |
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: Centumcellae Description of subject: Centumcellae is the ancient Roman name for the port city now known as Civitavecchia on the Tyrrhenian coast of Italy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.