Colophon
E105620
Colophon was an ancient Ionian Greek city in western Asia Minor, historically notable as one of the places claimed as the birthplace of the poet Homer.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colophon canonical | 19 |
| Colophon or Hypaepa (Lydia) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T896606 — 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: Colophon Context triple: [Homer, possibleBirthplace, Colophon]
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A.
Tabula Bantina
Tabula Bantina is an ancient bronze tablet bearing one of the most important surviving inscriptions in the Oscan language, recording laws of a Samnite community in southern Italy.
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B.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
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C.
Kelmscott
Kelmscott is a small rural village in Oxfordshire, England, best known for its association with the designer and writer William Morris and the historic Kelmscott Manor.
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D.
Cippus Abellanus
Cippus Abellanus is an ancient stone inscription from southern Italy, written in the Oscan language and valued as a key source for understanding the culture and legal practices of the Samnite people.
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E.
Onomasticon
Onomasticon is an early fourth-century geographical and biblical reference work by Eusebius of Caesarea that catalogs and explains place names mentioned in the Bible.
- 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: Colophon Target entity description: Colophon was an ancient Ionian Greek city in western Asia Minor, historically notable as one of the places claimed as the birthplace of the poet Homer.
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A.
Tabula Bantina
Tabula Bantina is an ancient bronze tablet bearing one of the most important surviving inscriptions in the Oscan language, recording laws of a Samnite community in southern Italy.
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B.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
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C.
Kelmscott
Kelmscott is a small rural village in Oxfordshire, England, best known for its association with the designer and writer William Morris and the historic Kelmscott Manor.
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D.
Cippus Abellanus
Cippus Abellanus is an ancient stone inscription from southern Italy, written in the Oscan language and valued as a key source for understanding the culture and legal practices of the Samnite people.
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E.
Onomasticon
Onomasticon is an early fourth-century geographical and biblical reference work by Eusebius of Caesarea that catalogs and explains place names mentioned in the Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Colophon Description of subject: Colophon was an ancient Ionian Greek city in western Asia Minor, historically notable as one of the places claimed as the birthplace of the poet Homer.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
oracular sanctuary of Apollo
subject linked to:
altar of Apollo
subject linked to:
Temple of Apollo
linked to: Colophon