Via Latina
E241612
Via Latina was an important ancient Roman road that linked Rome with southern Italy, running through Latium and serving as a key military and commercial route.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Via Latina canonical | 10 |
| Via Latina (extension) | 1 |
| Via Latina Antica | 1 |
| Via Latina Vetus | 1 |
| ancient Via Latina | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2018894 — 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: Via Latina Context triple: [Capua, connectedBy, Via Latina]
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A.
Via Flaminia
Via Flaminia was a major ancient Roman consular road that connected Rome to the Adriatic Sea, serving as a crucial route for military, commercial, and administrative travel in central Italy.
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B.
Via Aemilia
Via Aemilia was a major Roman consular road in northern Italy that connected key cities such as Ariminum (Rimini) and Placentia (Piacenza), fostering trade and military movement across the region.
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C.
Via Nomentana
Via Nomentana is an ancient Roman road in Italy that runs northeast from Rome and is known for passing several historic sites, including early Christian catacombs.
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D.
Via Salaria
Via Salaria is an ancient Roman road that historically connected Rome to the Adriatic Sea, serving as a major route for the transport of salt and other goods.
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E.
Via Appia
Via Appia is one of the earliest and most important ancient Roman roads, historically serving as a major route connecting Rome to southern Italy.
- 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: Via Latina Target entity description: Via Latina was an important ancient Roman road that linked Rome with southern Italy, running through Latium and serving as a key military and commercial route.
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A.
Via Flaminia
Via Flaminia was a major ancient Roman consular road that connected Rome to the Adriatic Sea, serving as a crucial route for military, commercial, and administrative travel in central Italy.
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B.
Via Aemilia
Via Aemilia was a major Roman consular road in northern Italy that connected key cities such as Ariminum (Rimini) and Placentia (Piacenza), fostering trade and military movement across the region.
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C.
Via Nomentana
Via Nomentana is an ancient Roman road in Italy that runs northeast from Rome and is known for passing several historic sites, including early Christian catacombs.
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D.
Via Salaria
Via Salaria is an ancient Roman road that historically connected Rome to the Adriatic Sea, serving as a major route for the transport of salt and other goods.
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E.
Via Appia
Via Appia is one of the earliest and most important ancient Roman roads, historically serving as a major route connecting Rome to southern Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman infrastructure
ⓘ
ancient Roman road ⓘ |
| builtBy | Romans ⓘ |
| connectsToRegion |
southern Italy
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Italy
|
| culturalHeritageStatus | archaeological site in Italy ⓘ |
| era |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| function |
commercial route
ⓘ
military route ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalRemains |
milestones
ⓘ
road pavement ⓘ tombs ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
facilitated Roman expansion in southern Italy
ⓘ
linked Rome with Campania and other southern regions ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Italy
ⓘ
Latium ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Latin Road ⓘ |
| parallelTo | Via Appia ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman road network ⓘ |
| pavedWith | stone ⓘ |
| roadType | consular road ⓘ |
| terminusA | Rome ⓘ |
| traverses |
Apennine region
ⓘ
linked to:
Apennines
|
| usedBy |
Roman army
ⓘ
Roman merchants ⓘ |
| usedFor |
communication
ⓘ
trade ⓘ troop movements ⓘ |
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: Via Latina Description of subject: Via Latina was an important ancient Roman road that linked Rome with southern Italy, running through Latium and serving as a key military and commercial route.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Via Latina
linked to: Via Latina
linked to: Via Latina
linked to: Via Latina