Dyrrhachium
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Dyrrhachium was an important ancient Greek and later Roman port city on the Adriatic coast, in the area of modern-day Durrës, Albania.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dyrrhachium canonical | 20 |
| Dyrrachium | 6 |
| Dyrrhachion | 2 |
| Dyrrachion | 1 |
| Dyrrhachium (ancient city) | 1 |
| Dyrrhachium region | 1 |
| city of Dyrrhachium | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1744969 — 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: Dyrrhachium Context triple: [Via Egnatia, startPoint, Dyrrhachium]
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Amphipolis
Amphipolis is an ancient Greek city in eastern Macedonia known for its strategic location near the Strymon River and its rich archaeological remains from the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
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Nikopolis
Nikopolis is an ancient city in Epirus, Greece, founded by the Roman emperor Augustus and known today for its extensive archaeological remains.
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Himera
Himera was an ancient Greek city on the northern coast of Sicily, notable for its strategic location and its role in the Greco-Punic conflicts, including the famous Battle of Himera in 480 BCE.
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Pherae
Pherae was an ancient Greek city in Thessaly known for its political influence and as the seat of the powerful tyrant Jason of Pherae.
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Brundisium
Brundisium was an important ancient Roman port city in southern Italy, strategically located on the Adriatic Sea and serving as a major gateway to the eastern Mediterranean.
- 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: Dyrrhachium Target entity description: Dyrrhachium was an important ancient Greek and later Roman port city on the Adriatic coast, in the area of modern-day Durrës, Albania.
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A.
Amphipolis
Amphipolis is an ancient Greek city in eastern Macedonia known for its strategic location near the Strymon River and its rich archaeological remains from the Classical and Hellenistic periods.
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B.
Nikopolis
Nikopolis is an ancient city in Epirus, Greece, founded by the Roman emperor Augustus and known today for its extensive archaeological remains.
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C.
Himera
Himera was an ancient Greek city on the northern coast of Sicily, notable for its strategic location and its role in the Greco-Punic conflicts, including the famous Battle of Himera in 480 BCE.
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D.
Pherae
Pherae was an ancient Greek city in Thessaly known for its political influence and as the seat of the powerful tyrant Jason of Pherae.
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E.
Brundisium
Brundisium was an important ancient Roman port city in southern Italy, strategically located on the Adriatic Sea and serving as a major gateway to the eastern Mediterranean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Dyrrhachium Description of subject: Dyrrhachium was an important ancient Greek and later Roman port city on the Adriatic coast, in the area of modern-day Durrës, Albania.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Roman province of Epirus Nova
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