Lupa
E126053
Lupa is the she-wolf from Roman mythology who nurtured the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lupa canonical | 2 |
| La Lupa | 1 |
| La Lupa (stage role) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1083873 — 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: Lupa Context triple: [Romulus and Remus, raisedBy, Lupa]
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A.
Lucilla
Lucilla was a Roman imperial princess and daughter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius who became Empress as the wife of Lucius Verus and was later implicated in a plot against her brother Commodus.
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B.
Salvator
Salvator is the Latin term traditionally used in Christian theology and liturgy to refer to Jesus Christ as the Savior.
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C.
Thoosa
Thoosa is a minor sea nymph in Greek mythology, known primarily as the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the sea god Poseidon.
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D.
Iole
Iole is a figure in Greek mythology, a princess of Oechalia whose relationship with Heracles ultimately leads to the jealousy of his wife Deianira and Heracles’ tragic death.
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E.
Morena
Morena is a city in the northern part of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, known as an administrative and commercial center in the Chambal region.
- 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: Lupa Target entity description: Lupa is the she-wolf from Roman mythology who nurtured the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome.
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A.
Lucilla
Lucilla was a Roman imperial princess and daughter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius who became Empress as the wife of Lucius Verus and was later implicated in a plot against her brother Commodus.
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B.
Salvator
Salvator is the Latin term traditionally used in Christian theology and liturgy to refer to Jesus Christ as the Savior.
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C.
Thoosa
Thoosa is a minor sea nymph in Greek mythology, known primarily as the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the sea god Poseidon.
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D.
Iole
Iole is a figure in Greek mythology, a princess of Oechalia whose relationship with Heracles ultimately leads to the jealousy of his wife Deianira and Heracles’ tragic death.
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E.
Morena
Morena is a city in the northern part of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, known as an administrative and commercial center in the Chambal region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in Roman mythology
ⓘ
mythological figure ⓘ she-wolf ⓘ |
| appearsIn | foundation myth of Rome ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Remus
ⓘ
Romulus ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Tiber River
ⓘ
linked to:
Tiber
shepherd Faustulus (as discoverer of the twins she nursed) ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Roman religion and myth ⓘ |
| depictedIn | Capitoline Wolf sculpture ⓘ |
| foundInTradition | Roman mythology ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasLegacy |
emblem of the city of Rome
ⓘ
motif in European art ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute | wolf suckling two infants ⓘ |
| influenced |
Roman art
ⓘ
Roman civic symbolism ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| locationAssociatedWith |
Palatine Hill
ⓘ
banks of the Tiber River ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | ancient Roman literary sources ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | she-wolf ⓘ |
| nurtured |
Remus
ⓘ
Romulus ⓘ |
| raised | Romulus and Remus ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Roman civic identity
ⓘ
foundation of Rome ⓘ |
| rescued | abandoned twins Romulus and Remus ⓘ |
| roleIn | legend of Romulus and Remus ⓘ |
| sometimesInterpretedAs | personification of a human wet nurse ⓘ |
| species | wolf ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
Rome
ⓘ
maternal care ⓘ protection ⓘ the city’s origins ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfMyth | early Roman Kingdom ⓘ |
| worshippedAs | protective figure of Rome ⓘ |
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: Lupa Description of subject: Lupa is the she-wolf from Roman mythology who nurtured the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lupa