Lares
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Lares are protective household and local deities in ancient Roman religion, believed to guard families, homes, and specific places.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lares canonical | 9 |
| Lares Compitales | 1 |
| Lares compitales | 1 |
| Lares viales | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2112411 — 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: Lares Context triple: [Roman religion, hasDeityClass, Lares]
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A.
Parcae
Parcae are the three Roman goddesses of fate who control the destinies and lifespans of gods and humans.
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B.
Semo Sancus
Semo Sancus is an ancient Italic god, particularly revered by the Sabines and early Romans as a divine guarantor of oaths, treaties, and good faith.
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C.
Hellenides
The Hellenides are a complex mountain system in Greece and the surrounding region, formed by the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates and characterized by intense folding, faulting, and seismic activity.
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D.
Laelianus
Laelianus was a short-lived usurper emperor of the breakaway Gallic Empire in the 3rd century Roman crisis.
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E.
Sebastos
Sebastos was the grand artificial harbor of ancient Caesarea Maritima, renowned as one of the largest and most advanced seaports of the Roman world.
- 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: Lares Target entity description: Lares are protective household and local deities in ancient Roman religion, believed to guard families, homes, and specific places.
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A.
Parcae
Parcae are the three Roman goddesses of fate who control the destinies and lifespans of gods and humans.
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B.
Semo Sancus
Semo Sancus is an ancient Italic god, particularly revered by the Sabines and early Romans as a divine guarantor of oaths, treaties, and good faith.
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C.
Hellenides
The Hellenides are a complex mountain system in Greece and the surrounding region, formed by the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates and characterized by intense folding, faulting, and seismic activity.
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D.
Laelianus
Laelianus was a short-lived usurper emperor of the breakaway Gallic Empire in the 3rd century Roman crisis.
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E.
Sebastos
Sebastos was the grand artificial harbor of ancient Caesarea Maritima, renowned as one of the largest and most advanced seaports of the Roman world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman deities
ⓘ
guardian spirits ⓘ household deities ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roman household religion
ⓘ
domestic cult ⓘ |
| category |
Roman gods
ⓘ
household gods ⓘ protector spirits ⓘ |
| cultStatus | officially recognized in Roman religion ⓘ |
| cultType |
domestic cult
ⓘ
local cult ⓘ |
| etymology | possibly derived from Etruscan lar ⓘ |
| function |
guard families
ⓘ
guard homes ⓘ guard specific places ⓘ |
| iconography |
depicted as youthful male figures
ⓘ
often holding a drinking horn ⓘ often holding a patera ⓘ often shown dancing ⓘ |
| number | plural class of deities ⓘ |
| offeringType |
food offerings
ⓘ
incense ⓘ wine offerings ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Genius
ⓘ
Manes ⓘ Penates ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Roman religion ⓘ |
| role | protective deities ⓘ |
| socialRole |
symbol of family continuity
ⓘ
symbol of local community protection ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
boundaries and crossroads
ⓘ
family safety ⓘ household prosperity ⓘ |
| subClassOf |
genius loci
ⓘ
tutelary deities ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| worshipContext |
crossroads shrines
ⓘ
household shrine ⓘ public cult places ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Roman citizens
ⓘ
Roman families ⓘ |
| worshipPlace | lararium ⓘ |
| worshipPractice |
daily prayers
ⓘ
regular offerings at the lararium ⓘ |
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: Lares Description of subject: Lares are protective household and local deities in ancient Roman religion, believed to guard families, homes, and specific places.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lares