Amphipolis
E113720
Amphipolis is an ancient Greek city in eastern Macedonia known for its strategic location near the Strymon River and its rich archaeological remains from the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amphipolis canonical | 15 |
| Amphipolis (ancient city) | 1 |
| Amphipolis municipality | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T799647 — 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: Amphipolis Context triple: [Macedonia (Greece), containsArchaeologicalSite, Amphipolis]
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A.
Pherae
Pherae was an ancient Greek city in Thessaly known for its political influence and as the seat of the powerful tyrant Jason of Pherae.
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B.
Nikopolis
Nikopolis is an ancient city in Epirus, Greece, founded by the Roman emperor Augustus and known today for its extensive archaeological remains.
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C.
Vergina
Vergina is a village in northern Greece renowned for its ancient royal tombs, including those attributed to the Macedonian kings, and is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site.
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D.
Lampsacus
Lampsacus was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of the Hellespont, known as a center of philosophy and culture in classical antiquity.
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E.
Pella
Pella is a well-known American brand specializing in the design and manufacture of windows and doors for residential and commercial buildings.
- 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: Amphipolis Target entity description: Amphipolis is an ancient Greek city in eastern Macedonia known for its strategic location near the Strymon River and its rich archaeological remains from the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
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A.
Pherae
Pherae was an ancient Greek city in Thessaly known for its political influence and as the seat of the powerful tyrant Jason of Pherae.
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B.
Nikopolis
Nikopolis is an ancient city in Epirus, Greece, founded by the Roman emperor Augustus and known today for its extensive archaeological remains.
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C.
Vergina
Vergina is a village in northern Greece renowned for its ancient royal tombs, including those attributed to the Macedonian kings, and is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage archaeological site.
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D.
Lampsacus
Lampsacus was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of the Hellespont, known as a center of philosophy and culture in classical antiquity.
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E.
Pella
Pella is a well-known American brand specializing in the design and manufacture of windows and doors for residential and commercial buildings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Amphipolis Description of subject: Amphipolis is an ancient Greek city in eastern Macedonia known for its strategic location near the Strymon River and its rich archaeological remains from the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Amphipolis
linked to: Amphipolis
subject linked to:
Alexander IV
subject linked to:
Athenian politician and general Cleon