Chaeronea
E126368
Chaeronea is an ancient town in central Greece best known as the site of the pivotal Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, where Philip II of Macedon defeated the Greek city-states.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chaeronea canonical | 16 |
| Chaeronea battlefield | 1 |
| Chaeronea in Boeotia | 1 |
| battlefield of Chaeronea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1060882 — 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: Chaeronea Context triple: [Boeotia, contains, Chaeronea]
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A.
Battle of Chaeronea
The Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) was a decisive clash in which Philip II of Macedon, aided by his son Alexander the Great, defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes, paving the way for Macedonian dominance over Greece.
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B.
Plataea
Plataea was an ancient Greek city-state in southern Boeotia, best known as the site of the decisive 479 BC battle in which Greek forces defeated the invading Persian army.
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Battle of Plataea
The Battle of Plataea was a decisive land engagement in 479 BC during the Greco-Persian Wars, where a coalition of Greek city-states defeated the Persian forces, effectively ending the Persian invasion of mainland Greece.
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D.
Battle of Amphipolis
The Battle of Amphipolis was a decisive 422 BC clash in the Peloponnesian War in which the Spartan general Brasidas defeated the Athenians but was killed along with Athenian leader Cleon, paving the way for the Peace of Nicias.
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Pharsalus
Pharsalus is an ancient city in central Greece best known as the site near which Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey in 48 BCE during the Roman civil war.
- 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: Chaeronea Target entity description: Chaeronea is an ancient town in central Greece best known as the site of the pivotal Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, where Philip II of Macedon defeated the Greek city-states.
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A.
Battle of Chaeronea
The Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) was a decisive clash in which Philip II of Macedon, aided by his son Alexander the Great, defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes, paving the way for Macedonian dominance over Greece.
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B.
Plataea
Plataea was an ancient Greek city-state in southern Boeotia, best known as the site of the decisive 479 BC battle in which Greek forces defeated the invading Persian army.
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C.
Battle of Plataea
The Battle of Plataea was a decisive land engagement in 479 BC during the Greco-Persian Wars, where a coalition of Greek city-states defeated the Persian forces, effectively ending the Persian invasion of mainland Greece.
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D.
Battle of Amphipolis
The Battle of Amphipolis was a decisive 422 BC clash in the Peloponnesian War in which the Spartan general Brasidas defeated the Athenians but was killed along with Athenian leader Cleon, paving the way for the Peace of Nicias.
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E.
Pharsalus
Pharsalus is an ancient city in central Greece best known as the site near which Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey in 48 BCE during the Roman civil war.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek biographer
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ancient town ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ battle ⓘ funerary monument ⓘ settlement ⓘ |
| belligerent |
Athens
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Macedon ⓘ Thebes ⓘ allied Greek city-states ⓘ |
| birthplaceOf | Plutarch ⓘ |
| bornIn | Chaeronea ⓘ |
| commandedBy |
Alexander the Great
ⓘ
Philip II of Macedon ⓘ |
| commemorates | Theban Sacred Band ⓘ |
| conflictIn | Macedonian expansion in Greece ⓘ |
| country | Greece ⓘ |
| date | 338 BC ⓘ |
| hasAncientName | Chaironeia ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalFind |
ancient fortifications
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battlefield remains ⓘ tombs of fallen soldiers ⓘ |
| hasEvent |
Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)
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linked to:
Battle of Chaeronea
|
| hasModernAdministrativeUnit | municipal unit of Chaeronea ⓘ |
| hasMonument | Lion of Chaeronea ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | site of historical interest in Greece ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Classical Greece
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Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Battle of Chaeronea
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birthplace of Plutarch ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Boeotia
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Boeotia ⓘ Chaeronea ⓘ Chaeronea ⓘ central Greece ⓘ region of Central Greece ⓘ regional unit of Boeotia ⓘ |
| near | Kopais basin ⓘ |
| partOf |
ancient Boeotia
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linked to:
Boeotia
municipality of Livadeia ⓘ |
| result | decisive Macedonian victory ⓘ |
| significance |
end of independence of many Greek city-states
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established Macedonian hegemony over Greece ⓘ |
| situatedOn | Cephissus River ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Eastern European Summer Time
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Eastern European Time ⓘ |
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: Chaeronea Description of subject: Chaeronea is an ancient town in central Greece best known as the site of the pivotal Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, where Philip II of Macedon defeated the Greek city-states.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Chaeronea
linked to: Chaeronea
linked to: Chaeronea