siliqua
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The siliqua was a small late Roman silver coin that continued to be used as currency by successor kingdoms such as the Kingdom of the Suebi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| siliqua canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10500951 — 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: siliqua Context triple: [Kingdom of the Suebi, currency, siliqua]
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A.
Siligo
Siligo is a small municipality in the Logudoro region of northern Sardinia, Italy, known for its rural landscape and traditional Sardinian culture.
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B.
Sill
The Sill is a river in Tyrol, Austria, that flows through the Wipptal valley and the city of Innsbruck before joining the Inn.
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C.
Sill
Sill is the surname of American singer-songwriter Judee Sill, known for her baroque folk compositions in the early 1970s.
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D.
Quartz
Quartz is a digital news outlet known for its global business journalism, data-driven reporting, and mobile-first storytelling.
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E.
Quartz
Quartz is Apple's 2D graphics rendering and compositing engine that underpins the visual display system in macOS.
- 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: siliqua Target entity description: The siliqua was a small late Roman silver coin that continued to be used as currency by successor kingdoms such as the Kingdom of the Suebi.
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A.
Siligo
Siligo is a small municipality in the Logudoro region of northern Sardinia, Italy, known for its rural landscape and traditional Sardinian culture.
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B.
Sill
The Sill is a river in Tyrol, Austria, that flows through the Wipptal valley and the city of Innsbruck before joining the Inn.
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C.
Sill
Sill is the surname of American singer-songwriter Judee Sill, known for her baroque folk compositions in the early 1970s.
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D.
Quartz
Quartz is a digital news outlet known for its global business journalism, data-driven reporting, and mobile-first storytelling.
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E.
Quartz
Quartz is Apple's 2D graphics rendering and compositing engine that underpins the visual display system in macOS.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman coin
ⓘ
ancient coin ⓘ |
| associatedWithRuler | late Roman emperors ⓘ |
| category |
Roman silver coins
ⓘ
coins of the Migration Period ⓘ |
| currencyOf |
Late Roman Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Late Antiquity
|
| denominationOf | Roman monetary system ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | numismatics ⓘ |
| hasType |
barbarian imitative siliqua
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imperial siliqua ⓘ |
| iconography |
Christian symbols on later issues
ⓘ
imperial bust ⓘ |
| material | silver ⓘ |
| metalType | precious metal coin ⓘ |
| mintedBy |
Roman mints
ⓘ
post-Roman successor states ⓘ |
| periodOfUse |
early Middle Ages
ⓘ
late Roman period ⓘ |
| predecessor | denarius ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | Roman weight unit siliqua ⓘ |
| relatedUnit |
semissis
ⓘ
solidus ⓘ |
| scriptOnCoin | Latin inscriptions ⓘ |
| successor | medieval European silver pennies ⓘ |
| typicalComposition | high-silver content ⓘ |
| usedAsCurrencyBy |
Kingdom of the Suebi
ⓘ
successor kingdoms of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Iberian Peninsula
ⓘ
Western Europe ⓘ |
| usedInTrade | long-distance trade in late 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: siliqua Description of subject: The siliqua was a small late Roman silver coin that continued to be used as currency by successor kingdoms such as the Kingdom of the Suebi.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.