Stridon
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Stridon was an ancient town on the border of Roman Dalmatia and Pannonia, best known as the birthplace of the Christian scholar and Bible translator Jerome.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stridon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T884246 — 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: Stridon Context triple: [Jerome, birthPlace, Stridon]
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A.
Dijla
Dijla is the Kurdish name for the Tigris River, one of the major rivers of Western Asia flowing through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
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B.
Soča River
The Soča River is a strikingly clear, emerald-green river flowing through western Slovenia and northeastern Italy, renowned for its alpine scenery and outdoor sports like kayaking, rafting, and fishing.
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C.
Istra River
The Istra River is a waterway in the Moscow region of Russia that flows through the town of Istra before joining the Moskva River.
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D.
Sava
Sava is a major river in Central and Southeastern Europe that flows through countries including Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia before joining the Danube.
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E.
Fiumana
Fiumana is a small locality in the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
- 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: Stridon Target entity description: Stridon was an ancient town on the border of Roman Dalmatia and Pannonia, best known as the birthplace of the Christian scholar and Bible translator Jerome.
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A.
Dijla
Dijla is the Kurdish name for the Tigris River, one of the major rivers of Western Asia flowing through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
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B.
Soča River
The Soča River is a strikingly clear, emerald-green river flowing through western Slovenia and northeastern Italy, renowned for its alpine scenery and outdoor sports like kayaking, rafting, and fishing.
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C.
Istra River
The Istra River is a waterway in the Moscow region of Russia that flows through the town of Istra before joining the Moskva River.
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D.
Sava
Sava is a major river in Central and Southeastern Europe that flows through countries including Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia before joining the Danube.
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E.
Fiumana
Fiumana is a small locality in the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ancient town ⓘ |
| coordinateStatus | exact coordinates unknown ⓘ |
| country | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| describedInWork | writings of Jerome ⓘ |
| eraOfDestructionOrDecline | late antiquity ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent | birth of Jerome ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Jerome ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Illyricum ⓘ |
| languageInHistoricalContext |
Illyrian languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Illyrian language
Latin ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Dalmatia
ⓘ
Pannonia ⓘ |
| locatedOn | border of Roman Dalmatia and Pannonia ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
De viris illustribus by Jerome
ⓘ
linked to:
De viris illustribus
letters of Jerome ⓘ |
| notableAs | birthplace of Jerome ⓘ |
| notableFor | association with Jerome ⓘ |
| partOf |
Roman province of Dalmatia
ⓘ
Roman province of Pannonia ⓘ |
| presentLocation | uncertain ⓘ |
| presentLocationHypothesis |
border region of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
ⓘ
modern Bosnia and Herzegovina ⓘ
linked to:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
modern Croatia ⓘ
linked to:
independent Republic of Croatia
near modern Grahovo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) ⓘ near modern Štrigova (Croatia) ⓘ |
| religionInHistoricalContext | early Christianity ⓘ |
| significance |
important for studies of Jerome
ⓘ
important for studies of late Roman Illyricum ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Roman era ⓘ |
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: Stridon Description of subject: Stridon was an ancient town on the border of Roman Dalmatia and Pannonia, best known as the birthplace of the Christian scholar and Bible translator Jerome.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.