Flavia Neapolis
E113927
Flavia Neapolis was a Roman city in Samaria, founded in the 1st century CE near ancient Shechem and known today as Nablus in the West Bank.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flavia Neapolis canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T948490 — 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: Flavia Neapolis Context triple: [Justin Martyr, birthPlace, Flavia Neapolis]
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Constantina
Constantina was a daughter of Roman emperor Constantine the Great who became a prominent imperial noblewoman and Christian figure in the 4th-century Roman Empire.
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B.
Aquincum
Aquincum was an important ancient Roman military and civilian settlement located in what is now northern Budapest, Hungary.
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Thugga
Thugga is an ancient Roman-Berber city in modern-day Tunisia renowned for its well-preserved ruins and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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D.
Diospolis
Diospolis is the ancient name of the city historically known as Lydda (modern Lod) in central Israel, an important urban center in classical and early Christian periods.
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E.
Berytus
Berytus is the ancient city that later became Beirut, a major coastal center of Phoenician and subsequently Greco-Roman and Byzantine civilization in the eastern Mediterranean.
- 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: Flavia Neapolis Target entity description: Flavia Neapolis was a Roman city in Samaria, founded in the 1st century CE near ancient Shechem and known today as Nablus in the West Bank.
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A.
Constantina
Constantina was a daughter of Roman emperor Constantine the Great who became a prominent imperial noblewoman and Christian figure in the 4th-century Roman Empire.
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B.
Aquincum
Aquincum was an important ancient Roman military and civilian settlement located in what is now northern Budapest, Hungary.
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C.
Thugga
Thugga is an ancient Roman-Berber city in modern-day Tunisia renowned for its well-preserved ruins and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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D.
Diospolis
Diospolis is the ancient name of the city historically known as Lydda (modern Lod) in central Israel, an important urban center in classical and early Christian periods.
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E.
Berytus
Berytus is the ancient city that later became Beirut, a major coastal center of Phoenician and subsequently Greco-Roman and Byzantine civilization in the eastern Mediterranean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Flavia Neapolis Description of subject: Flavia Neapolis was a Roman city in Samaria, founded in the 1st century CE near ancient Shechem and known today as Nablus in the West Bank.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.