Telesia
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Telesia was an important ancient town in the region of Samnium in south-central Italy, known for its strategic and military significance in pre-Roman and Roman times.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Telesia canonical | 3 |
| ancient Telesia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1985394 — 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: Telesia Context triple: [Samnium, majorSettlement, Telesia]
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A.
Tianeti
Tianeti is a small town and administrative center in eastern Georgia, situated in the mountainous Mtskheta-Mtianeti region.
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B.
Thebae
Thebae is the Latin name for the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, a major religious and political center on the Nile known for its temples and royal necropolis.
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C.
Evessa
Evessa is a professional basketball team based in Osaka, Japan, competing in the B.League.
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D.
Kamiros
Kamiros is an ancient city and archaeological site on the northwest coast of Rhodes, known for its well-preserved Hellenistic ruins and grid-planned layout.
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E.
Tessalit
Tessalit is a remote desert town in northern Mali that serves as a key Tuareg cultural center and strategic crossroads in the Adrar des Ifoghas region.
- 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: Telesia Target entity description: Telesia was an important ancient town in the region of Samnium in south-central Italy, known for its strategic and military significance in pre-Roman and Roman times.
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A.
Tianeti
Tianeti is a small town and administrative center in eastern Georgia, situated in the mountainous Mtskheta-Mtianeti region.
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B.
Thebae
Thebae is the Latin name for the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, a major religious and political center on the Nile known for its temples and royal necropolis.
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C.
Evessa
Evessa is a professional basketball team based in Osaka, Japan, competing in the B.League.
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D.
Kamiros
Kamiros is an ancient city and archaeological site on the northwest coast of Rhodes, known for its well-preserved Hellenistic ruins and grid-planned layout.
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E.
Tessalit
Tessalit is a remote desert town in northern Mali that serves as a key Tuareg cultural center and strategic crossroads in the Adrar des Ifoghas region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient town
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| approximateLocation |
province of Benevento
ⓘ
linked to:
Province of Benevento
|
| associatedWith |
Samnite Wars
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman–Samnite Wars
|
| controlledBy |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ Samnites ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| declinePeriod | late antiquity ⓘ |
| fortificationType | walled town ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
city walls
ⓘ
urban center ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure | Roman roads ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Roman municipium
ⓘ
strategic military center ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | archaeological remains preserved ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Samnium ⓘ |
| knownFor |
military significance
ⓘ
strategic location ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Latin
ⓘ
Oscan ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Samnium
ⓘ
south-central Italy ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Calore River
ⓘ
Tammaro River NERFINISHED ⓘ modern Telese Terme ⓘ |
| partOf |
Roman Italy
ⓘ
linked to:
Italia (Roman province)
ancient Samnium ⓘ
linked to:
Regio IV Samnium
|
| region | Campania ⓘ |
| strategicFunction |
control of routes between Campania and Samnium
ⓘ
military staging point ⓘ |
| successorSettlement | Telese Terme ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Roman era
ⓘ
pre-Roman era ⓘ |
| urbanType | municipal town in Roman period ⓘ |
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: Telesia Description of subject: Telesia was an important ancient town in the region of Samnium in south-central Italy, known for its strategic and military significance in pre-Roman and Roman times.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Telesia