Santa Maria di Leuca
E942718
Santa Maria di Leuca is a coastal town at the southern tip of Italy’s Salento peninsula, known for its scenic cliffs, historic lighthouse, and as a meeting point of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Santa Maria di Leuca canonical | 4 |
| Saint Mary of Leuca | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11717160 — 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: Santa Maria di Leuca Context triple: [Province of Lecce, contains, Santa Maria di Leuca]
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A.
Santa Maria di Licodia
Santa Maria di Licodia is a small Sicilian town on the slopes of Mount Etna in southern Italy, known for its historic architecture and agricultural traditions.
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B.
Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Santa Maria Capua Vetere is a town in Italy’s Campania region, noted for preserving much of the archaeological heritage of the ancient city of Capua, including its famous Roman amphitheater.
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C.
Sant’Anna Pelago
Sant’Anna Pelago is a small mountain village and ski resort in the Apennines of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, known for its alpine scenery and winter sports.
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D.
San Giovanni la Punta
San Giovanni la Punta is a municipality in eastern Sicily, Italy, situated near Mount Etna within the metropolitan area of Catania.
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E.
Tocco of Kefalonia
Tocco of Kefalonia was a prominent late medieval noble family that ruled parts of western Greece, including the County Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos and later the Despotate of Epirus.
- 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: Santa Maria di Leuca Target entity description: Santa Maria di Leuca is a coastal town at the southern tip of Italy’s Salento peninsula, known for its scenic cliffs, historic lighthouse, and as a meeting point of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas.
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A.
Santa Maria di Licodia
Santa Maria di Licodia is a small Sicilian town on the slopes of Mount Etna in southern Italy, known for its historic architecture and agricultural traditions.
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B.
Santa Maria Capua Vetere
Santa Maria Capua Vetere is a town in Italy’s Campania region, noted for preserving much of the archaeological heritage of the ancient city of Capua, including its famous Roman amphitheater.
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C.
Sant’Anna Pelago
Sant’Anna Pelago is a small mountain village and ski resort in the Apennines of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, known for its alpine scenery and winter sports.
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D.
San Giovanni la Punta
San Giovanni la Punta is a municipality in eastern Sicily, Italy, situated near Mount Etna within the metropolitan area of Catania.
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E.
Tocco of Kefalonia
Tocco of Kefalonia was a prominent late medieval noble family that ruled parts of western Greece, including the County Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos and later the Despotate of Epirus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coastal town
ⓘ
tourist destination ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | frazione of Castrignano del Capo ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Leuca ⓘ |
| belongsTo |
Salento tourist area
ⓘ
linked to:
Salento
|
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| coast |
Adriatic Sea
ⓘ
Ionian Sea ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 100 meters at lighthouse promontory ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
boat excursions to sea caves
ⓘ
coastal hiking ⓘ diving ⓘ |
| hasArchitecture | eclectic 19th-century villas ⓘ |
| hasBeach | small sandy coves ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
promontory
ⓘ
rocky coastline ⓘ rocky promontory separating Ionian and Adriatic coasts ⓘ sea caves ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Basilica Santuario di Santa Maria de Finibus Terrae
ⓘ
Cascata Monumentale di Leuca ⓘ Santa Maria di Leuca lighthouse ⓘ |
| hasPort |
fishing harbor
ⓘ
tourist marina ⓘ |
| hasStructure | seafront promenade ⓘ |
| hasView | panoramic sea views ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic lighthouse
ⓘ
meeting point of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas ⓘ scenic cliffs ⓘ |
| locatedAt | southern tip of the Salento peninsula ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Apulia
ⓘ
Province of Lecce ⓘ Salento peninsula ⓘ
linked to:
Salento
southern Italy ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Italy
|
| maritimeRole | navigation reference point between Ionian and Adriatic Seas ⓘ |
| nameMeaning |
Saint Mary of Leuca
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Maria di Leuca
|
| near | Capo di Leuca ⓘ |
| partOf | Castrignano del Capo ⓘ |
| region | Salento ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | traditional pilgrimage site ⓘ |
| roadAccess |
connected by regional roads to Gallipoli
ⓘ
connected by regional roads to Otranto ⓘ |
| tourismType |
nautical tourism
ⓘ
religious tourism ⓘ seaside tourism ⓘ |
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: Santa Maria di Leuca Description of subject: Santa Maria di Leuca is a coastal town at the southern tip of Italy’s Salento peninsula, known for its scenic cliffs, historic lighthouse, and as a meeting point of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Santa Maria di Leuca