Mutina
E212294
Mutina was an important ancient Roman city in northern Italy, known today as Modena.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mutina canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1906871 — 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: Mutina Context triple: [Via Aemilia, connects, Mutina]
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A.
Canova
Canova was a renowned Italian Neoclassical sculptor celebrated for his marble masterpieces depicting mythological and historical subjects.
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B.
Clementia
Clementia is a feminine given name of Latin origin associated with the virtue of mercy and clemency.
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C.
Selasca
Selasca is a small locality in northern Italy notable as the place where the mathematician Bernhard Riemann died.
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D.
Antium
Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, Italy, notable as a resort and birthplace of several Roman emperors, including Caligula and Nero.
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E.
Clusium
Clusium was an important ancient Etruscan city, known for its strategic location in central Italy and its significant role in early Roman 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: Mutina Target entity description: Mutina was an important ancient Roman city in northern Italy, known today as Modena.
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A.
Canova
Canova was a renowned Italian Neoclassical sculptor celebrated for his marble masterpieces depicting mythological and historical subjects.
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B.
Clementia
Clementia is a feminine given name of Latin origin associated with the virtue of mercy and clemency.
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C.
Selasca
Selasca is a small locality in northern Italy notable as the place where the mathematician Bernhard Riemann died.
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D.
Antium
Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, Italy, notable as a resort and birthplace of several Roman emperors, including Caligula and Nero.
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E.
Clusium
Clusium was an important ancient Etruscan city, known for its strategic location in central Italy and its significant role in early Roman history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman city
ⓘ
ancient battle ⓘ settlement ⓘ |
| archaeologicalRemainsIn | Modena ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Aulus Hirtius
ⓘ
Gaius Vibius Pansa ⓘ Marcus Antonius ⓘ
linked to:
Mark Antony
Octavian ⓘ
linked to:
Augustus
|
| conqueredBy | Romans ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
trade ⓘ |
| foughtAt | Mutina ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Etruscans ⓘ |
| hadStatus |
Roman colony
ⓘ
Roman municipium ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
Roman road network
ⓘ
Roman urban layout ⓘ |
| hasModernEquivalent | Comune di Modena ⓘ |
| integratedInto | Roman road system ⓘ |
| knownFor |
position on major Roman roads
ⓘ
strategic military importance ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Latin ⓘ |
| laterBecame | bishopric of Modena ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cisalpine Gaul
ⓘ
Italy ⓘ Po Valley ⓘ northern Italy ⓘ region of Emilia ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Emilia-Romagna ⓘ |
| modernCountry | Italy ⓘ |
| modernName | Modena ⓘ |
| nearbyRiver |
Panaro River
ⓘ
linked to:
Panaro
Secchia River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Final War of the Roman Republic
ⓘ
Regio VIII Aemilia ⓘ Roman Empire ⓘ Roman Republic ⓘ |
| preRomanCulture |
Etruscan civilization
ⓘ
linked to:
Etruscans
|
| religion | Roman polytheism ⓘ |
| servedAs |
colonia
ⓘ
municipium ⓘ |
| siteOf |
Battle of Mutina (43 BC)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mutina campaign
|
| strategicRole | control of routes between the Apennines and the Po Valley ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Imperial Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Empire
Republican Rome ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Republic
|
| traversedBy | Via Aemilia ⓘ |
| usedScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Mutina Description of subject: Mutina was an important ancient Roman city in northern Italy, known today as Modena.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.