Scidrus
E256239
Scidrus was an ancient Greek colonial settlement in southern Italy associated with the wealthy city of Sybaris.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Scidrus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2303925 — 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: Scidrus Context triple: [Sybaris, hadColonies, Scidrus]
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A.
Aegle
Aegle is a figure from Greek mythology, often identified as one of the Hesperides, the nymphs associated with a blissful garden at the western edge of the world.
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B.
Hesperocnide
Hesperocnide is a small genus of stinging nettle-like flowering plants native to western North America and belonging to the nettle family.
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C.
Thargelia
Thargelia was an ancient Athenian festival in honor of Apollo (and Artemis), marked by offerings of first fruits and purification rituals intended to protect and renew the community.
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D.
Phalanthos
Phalanthos is a figure from Greek legend, often depicted as a Spartan or Parthenian leader associated with the mythic founding of the city of Tarentum in southern Italy.
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E.
Phasaelis
Phasaelis was a Nabatean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV, best known as the first wife of Herod Antipas whose repudiation of her led to political and military conflict.
- 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: Scidrus Target entity description: Scidrus was an ancient Greek colonial settlement in southern Italy associated with the wealthy city of Sybaris.
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A.
Aegle
Aegle is a figure from Greek mythology, often identified as one of the Hesperides, the nymphs associated with a blissful garden at the western edge of the world.
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B.
Hesperocnide
Hesperocnide is a small genus of stinging nettle-like flowering plants native to western North America and belonging to the nettle family.
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C.
Thargelia
Thargelia was an ancient Athenian festival in honor of Apollo (and Artemis), marked by offerings of first fruits and purification rituals intended to protect and renew the community.
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D.
Phalanthos
Phalanthos is a figure from Greek legend, often depicted as a Spartan or Parthenian leader associated with the mythic founding of the city of Tarentum in southern Italy.
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E.
Phasaelis
Phasaelis was a Nabatean princess, daughter of King Aretas IV, best known as the first wife of Herod Antipas whose repudiation of her led to political and military conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek colonial settlement
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ancient city ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Sybaris ⓘ |
| civilization | Magna Graecia ⓘ |
| colonialOrigin | Sybaris ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | Magna Graecia ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| economicAssociation | wealth of Sybaris ⓘ |
| era | pre-Roman Italy ⓘ |
| heritage | Hellenic ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | defunct settlement ⓘ |
| knownFrom | ancient literary sources ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| linkedTo | Sybarite colonization ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
southern Italy
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linked to:
Southern Italy
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| partOf | Greek colonial network in the western Mediterranean ⓘ |
| politicalAffiliation | Greek colonies in Italy ⓘ |
| region | Lucania ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Archaic period of ancient Greece
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linked to:
Archaic period
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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: Scidrus Description of subject: Scidrus was an ancient Greek colonial settlement in southern Italy associated with the wealthy city of Sybaris.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.