Robigo
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Robigo is an ancient Roman deity associated with crop blight and agricultural disease, whose appeasement was sought to protect the harvest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robigo canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10164556 — 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: Robigo Context triple: [Robigalia, honors, Robigo]
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A.
Ranelva
Ranelva is a river in Nordland county, Norway, known for flowing through the town of Mo i Rana and into the Ranfjorden.
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B.
Reitia
Reitia is an ancient goddess venerated by the Veneti people of northeastern Italy, often linked to writing, healing, and protection.
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C.
Rimplas
Rimplas is a small mountain village in southeastern France, known for its scenic Alpine setting and historic fortifications overlooking the Tinée Valley.
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D.
Rogalin
Rogalin is a historic village in west-central Poland renowned for its aristocratic palace complex and ancient oak trees.
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E.
Mestor
Mestor is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology, known primarily as a member of the royal family of Mycenae and part of the wider Perseid lineage.
- 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: Robigo Target entity description: Robigo is an ancient Roman deity associated with crop blight and agricultural disease, whose appeasement was sought to protect the harvest.
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A.
Ranelva
Ranelva is a river in Nordland county, Norway, known for flowing through the town of Mo i Rana and into the Ranfjorden.
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B.
Reitia
Reitia is an ancient goddess venerated by the Veneti people of northeastern Italy, often linked to writing, healing, and protection.
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C.
Rimplas
Rimplas is a small mountain village in southeastern France, known for its scenic Alpine setting and historic fortifications overlooking the Tinée Valley.
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D.
Rogalin
Rogalin is a historic village in west-central Poland renowned for its aristocratic palace complex and ancient oak trees.
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E.
Mestor
Mestor is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology, known primarily as a member of the royal family of Mycenae and part of the wider Perseid lineage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman deity
ⓘ
Roman festival ⓘ agricultural deity ⓘ |
| appeasedBy |
prayers
ⓘ
sacrifice of a red dog ⓘ sacrifice of sheep ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mars
ⓘ
crop blight ⓘ plant disease ⓘ wheat rust ⓘ |
| category |
Roman chthonic deities
ⓘ
Roman gods of agriculture ⓘ |
| cultStatus | minor deity ⓘ |
| cultTitle | dea ⓘ |
| cultType |
rural cult
ⓘ
state cult ⓘ |
| date | April 25 ⓘ |
| domain | agriculture ⓘ |
| etymologyRelatedTo | robigo (Latin for rust, mildew) ⓘ |
| feast | Robigalia ⓘ |
| function |
avert mildew from crops
ⓘ
protect harvest from disease ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAspect | destructive power over crops ⓘ |
| honours | Robigo ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| location |
Via Claudia Milestone 5
ⓘ
linked to:
Via Claudia Augusta
outskirts of Rome ⓘ |
| mentionedBy | Ovid ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Ovid Fasti
ⓘ
linked to:
Ovid's Fasti
|
| otherForm | Robigus ⓘ |
| propitiatedFor | healthy harvest ⓘ |
| purpose | avert crop disease ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Roman religion ⓘ |
| ritual |
prayers to Robigo
ⓘ
sacrifice of a red dog ⓘ sacrifice of sheep ⓘ |
| role | personification of crop blight ⓘ |
| seasonalAssociation | spring ⓘ |
| symbol |
blight
ⓘ
rust ⓘ |
| worshipContext | protection of grain crops ⓘ |
| worshippedBy | Roman farmers ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
ancient Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
|
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: Robigo Description of subject: Robigo is an ancient Roman deity associated with crop blight and agricultural disease, whose appeasement was sought to protect the harvest.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.