Formiae
E194570
Formiae was an ancient coastal town in Latium, Italy, known as a Roman resort and historically noted as the place where Cicero was killed.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1703040 — 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: Formiae Context triple: [Cicero, deathPlace, Formiae]
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Xerinae
Xerinae is a subfamily of rodents in the squirrel family (Sciuridae) that includes ground squirrels, chipmunks, and related species.
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B.
Sidicini
The Sidicini were an ancient Italic people of south-central Italy, known from early Roman history and associated with the Oscan-speaking Samnite cultural sphere.
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C.
Maleae
Maleae is a tribe of flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae) that includes many economically important fruit-bearing genera such as apples and pears.
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D.
Adolphia
Adolphia is a small genus of flowering shrubs in the buckthorn family, native to arid and semi-arid regions of the Americas.
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E.
Ambrysus
Ambrysus was an ancient Greek city in the region of Phocis, known for its strategic location and role in classical Greek history.
- 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: Formiae Target entity description: Formiae was an ancient coastal town in Latium, Italy, known as a Roman resort and historically noted as the place where Cicero was killed.
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A.
Xerinae
Xerinae is a subfamily of rodents in the squirrel family (Sciuridae) that includes ground squirrels, chipmunks, and related species.
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B.
Sidicini
The Sidicini were an ancient Italic people of south-central Italy, known from early Roman history and associated with the Oscan-speaking Samnite cultural sphere.
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C.
Maleae
Maleae is a tribe of flowering plants in the rose family (Rosaceae) that includes many economically important fruit-bearing genera such as apples and pears.
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D.
Adolphia
Adolphia is a small genus of flowering shrubs in the buckthorn family, native to arid and semi-arid regions of the Americas.
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E.
Ambrysus
Ambrysus was an ancient Greek city in the region of Phocis, known for its strategic location and role in classical Greek history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Formiae Description of subject: Formiae was an ancient coastal town in Latium, Italy, known as a Roman resort and historically noted as the place where Cicero was killed.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.