Corfinium
E192202
Corfinium was an ancient city in central Italy that briefly served as the political center of the Italian allies during their revolt against Rome in the Social War (91–88 BCE).
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corfinium canonical | 22 |
| Corfinio | 2 |
| ancient town of Corfinium | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1702951 — 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: Corfinium Context triple: [Social War, capitalOfRebels, Corfinium]
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A.
Singidunum
Singidunum was the ancient Roman and earlier Celtic settlement that occupied the site of present-day Belgrade, Serbia.
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B.
Clusium
Clusium was an important ancient Etruscan city, known for its strategic location in central Italy and its significant role in early Roman history.
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C.
Rhegium
Rhegium was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, located at the Strait of Messina and known for its strategic and commercial significance in Magna Graecia.
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D.
Temora
Temora is a rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its rich agricultural base and aviation heritage.
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E.
Thugga
Thugga is an ancient Roman-Berber city in modern-day Tunisia renowned for its well-preserved ruins and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- 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: Corfinium Target entity description: Corfinium was an ancient city in central Italy that briefly served as the political center of the Italian allies during their revolt against Rome in the Social War (91–88 BCE).
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A.
Singidunum
Singidunum was the ancient Roman and earlier Celtic settlement that occupied the site of present-day Belgrade, Serbia.
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B.
Clusium
Clusium was an important ancient Etruscan city, known for its strategic location in central Italy and its significant role in early Roman history.
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C.
Rhegium
Rhegium was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, located at the Strait of Messina and known for its strategic and commercial significance in Magna Graecia.
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D.
Temora
Temora is a rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its rich agricultural base and aviation heritage.
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E.
Thugga
Thugga is an ancient Roman-Berber city in modern-day Tunisia renowned for its well-preserved ruins and status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Corfinium Description of subject: Corfinium was an ancient city in central Italy that briefly served as the political center of the Italian allies during their revolt against Rome in the Social War (91–88 BCE).
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.