Ratae Corieltauvorum
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Ratae Corieltauvorum was the Roman town and administrative center that later became the modern English city of Leicester.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ratae Corieltauvorum canonical | 8 |
| Ratae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2354669 — 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: Ratae Corieltauvorum Context triple: [Leicester, hasRomanName, Ratae Corieltauvorum]
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A.
Teanum Sidicinum
Teanum Sidicinum was an important ancient city in Campania, Italy, serving as the chief urban center of the Sidicini people and later becoming a notable Roman municipality.
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B.
Corinium Dobunnorum
Corinium Dobunnorum was a prominent Roman town in what is now Cirencester, England, serving as an important administrative and commercial center in Roman Britain.
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C.
Glevum
Glevum was the Roman-era name for the settlement that later became the English city of Gloucester, originally established as a military fort and later developed into a colonia.
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D.
Camulodunum
Camulodunum was an important ancient Roman town in Britain, serving as the first provincial capital and a major military and administrative center.
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E.
Augusta Vindelicorum
Augusta Vindelicorum was an important Roman provincial city in what is now Augsburg, Germany, serving as a major military, administrative, and commercial center in the province of Raetia.
- 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: Ratae Corieltauvorum Target entity description: Ratae Corieltauvorum was the Roman town and administrative center that later became the modern English city of Leicester.
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A.
Teanum Sidicinum
Teanum Sidicinum was an important ancient city in Campania, Italy, serving as the chief urban center of the Sidicini people and later becoming a notable Roman municipality.
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B.
Corinium Dobunnorum
Corinium Dobunnorum was a prominent Roman town in what is now Cirencester, England, serving as an important administrative and commercial center in Roman Britain.
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C.
Glevum
Glevum was the Roman-era name for the settlement that later became the English city of Gloucester, originally established as a military fort and later developed into a colonia.
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D.
Camulodunum
Camulodunum was an important ancient Roman town in Britain, serving as the first provincial capital and a major military and administrative center.
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E.
Augusta Vindelicorum
Augusta Vindelicorum was an important Roman provincial city in what is now Augsburg, Germany, serving as a major military, administrative, and commercial center in the province of Raetia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman town
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ former settlement ⓘ |
| archaeologicalEvidence |
building foundations
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burials ⓘ coins ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ mosaics ⓘ pottery ⓘ |
| associatedPeople |
Corieltauvi
ⓘ
Romans ⓘ |
| civitasOf |
Corieltauvi
ⓘ
Corieltauvi tribe ⓘ |
| connectedBy | Roman roads ⓘ |
| culture | Romano-British ⓘ |
| declinedIn | 4th century AD ⓘ |
| developedIn | 2nd century AD ⓘ |
| economy |
local trade
ⓘ
regional administration ⓘ |
| followedBy | medieval town of Leicester ⓘ |
| fortifiedIn | 3rd century AD ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
amphitheatre
ⓘ
basilica ⓘ cemeteries ⓘ defensive walls ⓘ forum ⓘ gates ⓘ hypocaust systems ⓘ mosaic floors ⓘ public baths ⓘ street grid ⓘ temples ⓘ town houses ⓘ |
| hasNearbyMuseum |
Jewry Wall Museum
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linked to:
Jewry Wall
|
| heritageDesignation | scheduled monument ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Leicester ⓘ Leicestershire ⓘ Roman Britain ⓘ |
| locatedOn | River Soar ⓘ |
| modernSite | Leicester ⓘ |
| partOf | province of Britannia ⓘ |
| precededBy | Iron Age settlement at Leicester ⓘ |
| presentIn |
Jewry Wall area of Leicester
ⓘ
linked to:
Jewry Wall
|
| servedAs |
administrative centre
ⓘ
civitas capital ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century AD ⓘ |
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: Ratae Corieltauvorum Description of subject: Ratae Corieltauvorum was the Roman town and administrative center that later became the modern English city of Leicester.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Corieltauvi tribe
subject linked to:
Corieltauvi tribe
linked to: Ratae Corieltauvorum