Histories
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Histories is a sixth-century historical work by the Byzantine scholar Agathias that continues Procopius’s account of the reign of Emperor Justinian I.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20727666 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Histories Context triple: [Agathias, wrote, Histories]
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Histories
Histories is a major work of Roman historiography by Tacitus that chronicles the turbulent period of the Roman Empire following the death of Nero.
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Histories
Histories is an ancient Greek work by Herodotus that is widely regarded as the foundational text of Western historiography, combining historical inquiry with ethnographic and geographic descriptions.
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Histories
Histories is the principal historical work of the ancient Greek historian Timaeus of Tauromenium, known for its detailed account of the Western Greek world and Sicily.
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Histories
Histories is the major historical work of the ancient Greek historian Polybius, chronicling the rise of the Roman Republic to Mediterranean dominance in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
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Histories is a fragmentary historical work by the Roman historian Sallust that covers the turbulent period of the late Roman Republic following the death of Sulla.
- 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: Histories Target entity description: Histories is a sixth-century historical work by the Byzantine scholar Agathias that continues Procopius’s account of the reign of Emperor Justinian I.
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Histories
Histories is a 14th-century Byzantine historical work by John VI Kantakouzenos that chronicles the political and military events of his time, including his own reign and the civil wars of the Byzantine Empire.
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Histories
Histories is the principal historical work of the ancient Greek historian Timaeus of Tauromenium, known for its detailed account of the Western Greek world and Sicily.
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Histories
Histories is a major work of Roman historiography by Tacitus that chronicles the turbulent period of the Roman Empire following the death of Nero.
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Histories
Histories is the major historical work of the ancient Greek historian Polybius, chronicling the rise of the Roman Republic to Mediterranean dominance in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
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Histories
Histories is a fragmentary historical work by the Roman historian Sallust that covers the turbulent period of the late Roman Republic following the death of Sulla.
- F. None of above. chosen
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