Ptolomea
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Ptolomea is a region in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno where traitors to guests are punished, encased in ice within the frozen lake of Cocytus in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ptolomea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19134882 — 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: Ptolomea Context triple: [frozen lake of Cocytus, hasSubregion, Ptolomea]
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A.
Ptolemaios
Ptolemaios is the Latinized name of Claudius Ptolemaeus, the Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, and geographer whose works like the Almagest and Geographia shaped scientific thought for centuries.
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B.
Ptolemy
Ptolemy was a Greco-Roman client king of Mauretania under the Roman Empire, known as one of the last monarchs of the ancient Berber kingdoms in North Africa.
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C.
Ptolemy
Ptolemy was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great who became ruler of Egypt and founded the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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D.
Ptolemy of Aloros
Ptolemy of Aloros was a 4th-century BC Macedonian noble who seized power as regent after orchestrating the assassination of King Alexander II of Macedon.
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E.
Rex Ptolemaeus
Rex Ptolemaeus was the royal title borne by Ptolemy of Mauretania, the last king of the North African client kingdom of Mauretania under the Roman Empire.
- 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: Ptolomea Target entity description: Ptolomea is a region in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno where traitors to guests are punished, encased in ice within the frozen lake of Cocytus in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
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A.
Ptolemaios
Ptolemaios is the Latinized name of Claudius Ptolemaeus, the Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, and geographer whose works like the Almagest and Geographia shaped scientific thought for centuries.
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B.
Ptolemy
Ptolemy was a Greco-Roman client king of Mauretania under the Roman Empire, known as one of the last monarchs of the ancient Berber kingdoms in North Africa.
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C.
Ptolemy
Ptolemy was a Macedonian general under Alexander the Great who became ruler of Egypt and founded the Ptolemaic dynasty.
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D.
Ptolemy of Aloros
Ptolemy of Aloros was a 4th-century BC Macedonian noble who seized power as regent after orchestrating the assassination of King Alexander II of Macedon.
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E.
Rex Ptolemaeus
Rex Ptolemaeus was the royal title borne by Ptolemy of Mauretania, the last king of the North African client kingdom of Mauretania under the Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.