Caesarea ad Lycum
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Caesarea ad Lycum was an ancient Roman-era city in northern Anatolia, located at the site of modern Niksar in present-day Turkey.
All labels observed (1)
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| Caesarea ad Lycum canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19844182 — 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: Caesarea ad Lycum Context triple: [Niksar, historicalName, Caesarea ad Lycum]
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A.
Caesarea Panias
Caesarea Panias is the ancient name of a Greco-Roman city near the Banias springs at the base of Mount Hermon, known for its sanctuary to the god Pan and later called Caesarea Philippi.
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B.
Iol Caesarea
Iol Caesarea was an important ancient Mediterranean city in North Africa that served as the political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Mauretania.
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C.
Caesarea in Cilicia
Caesarea in Cilicia was the Roman-era name of the ancient city later known as Anazarbus, an important urban center in the region of Cilicia (in modern southern Turkey).
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D.
Caesarea Tralles
Caesarea Tralles was the later Roman and Byzantine name for the ancient city of Tralles in western Asia Minor, an important regional center in what is now Turkey.
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E.
Caesarea Mazaca
Caesarea Mazaca was an ancient city in Cappadocia, central Anatolia, that later became an important regional center under Roman rule.
- 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: Caesarea ad Lycum Target entity description: Caesarea ad Lycum was an ancient Roman-era city in northern Anatolia, located at the site of modern Niksar in present-day Turkey.
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A.
Caesarea Panias
Caesarea Panias is the ancient name of a Greco-Roman city near the Banias springs at the base of Mount Hermon, known for its sanctuary to the god Pan and later called Caesarea Philippi.
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B.
Iol Caesarea
Iol Caesarea was an important ancient Mediterranean city in North Africa that served as the political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Mauretania.
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C.
Caesarea in Cilicia
Caesarea in Cilicia was the Roman-era name of the ancient city later known as Anazarbus, an important urban center in the region of Cilicia (in modern southern Turkey).
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D.
Caesarea Tralles
Caesarea Tralles was the later Roman and Byzantine name for the ancient city of Tralles in western Asia Minor, an important regional center in what is now Turkey.
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E.
Caesarea Mazaca
Caesarea Mazaca was an ancient city in Cappadocia, central Anatolia, that later became an important regional center under Roman rule.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.