Sanctuary of Persephone
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The Sanctuary of Persephone at Locri Epizephyrii was a major ancient Greek religious center in southern Italy dedicated to the worship of the goddess Persephone, renowned for its rich votive offerings and terracotta plaques.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sanctuary of Persephone canonical | 1 |
| sanctuary of Persephone at Mannella | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2429025 — 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: Sanctuary of Persephone Context triple: [Locri Epizephyrii, hasSanctuary, Sanctuary of Persephone]
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A.
Telesterion at Eleusis
The Telesterion at Eleusis was the great initiation hall and central sanctuary of the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of ancient Greece’s most important religious cult centers.
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B.
Sanctuary of Apollo
The Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene is an important ancient Greek religious complex in modern-day Libya, dedicated to the god Apollo and central to the civic and spiritual life of the classical city.
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C.
Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia
The Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia is an ancient religious complex at Delphi in Greece, famed for its iconic circular tholos and its role as a monumental gateway to the main Delphic sanctuary.
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D.
Eleusis
Eleusis was an ancient Greek city renowned as the center of the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the most important secret religious cults of the classical world dedicated to Demeter and Persephone.
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E.
Phaestis
Phaestis is known in some ancient biographical traditions as the mother of the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
- 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: Sanctuary of Persephone Target entity description: The Sanctuary of Persephone at Locri Epizephyrii was a major ancient Greek religious center in southern Italy dedicated to the worship of the goddess Persephone, renowned for its rich votive offerings and terracotta plaques.
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A.
Telesterion at Eleusis
The Telesterion at Eleusis was the great initiation hall and central sanctuary of the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of ancient Greece’s most important religious cult centers.
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B.
Sanctuary of Apollo
The Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene is an important ancient Greek religious complex in modern-day Libya, dedicated to the god Apollo and central to the civic and spiritual life of the classical city.
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C.
Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia
The Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia is an ancient religious complex at Delphi in Greece, famed for its iconic circular tholos and its role as a monumental gateway to the main Delphic sanctuary.
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D.
Eleusis
Eleusis was an ancient Greek city renowned as the center of the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the most important secret religious cults of the classical world dedicated to Demeter and Persephone.
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E.
Phaestis
Phaestis is known in some ancient biographical traditions as the mother of the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek sanctuary
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religious site ⓘ |
| archaeologicalSite | true ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
fertility
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marriage ⓘ seasonal cycle ⓘ underworld ⓘ |
| associatedDeity |
Demeter
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Hades ⓘ |
| associatedRitualParticipants |
brides
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women ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Greek colonization of southern Italy
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Magna Graecia religion ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Persephone ⓘ |
| excavated | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasArtifactType |
pinax
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votive plaque ⓘ |
| hasEvidenceType |
architectural remains
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inscriptions ⓘ terracotta votives ⓘ |
| hasMaterial | terracotta ⓘ |
| hasThemeInArt |
abduction of Persephone
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female rites of passage ⓘ wedding of Persephone ⓘ |
| hasVotivePractice |
dedication of small figurines
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dedication of terracotta pinakes ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | important archaeological heritage of Calabria ⓘ |
| knownFor |
pinakes of Locri
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rich votive offerings ⓘ terracotta plaques ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Calabria
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Locri Epizephyrii ⓘ Magna Graecia ⓘ southern Italy ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Italy
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| majorDeity | Persephone ⓘ |
| partOf | urban territory of Locri Epizephyrii ⓘ |
| periodOfUse |
Archaic period
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Classical period ⓘ |
| religiousFunction |
cult of Persephone
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rituals related to marriage ⓘ rituals related to the afterlife ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Greek polytheism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sanctuary of Persephone Description of subject: The Sanctuary of Persephone at Locri Epizephyrii was a major ancient Greek religious center in southern Italy dedicated to the worship of the goddess Persephone, renowned for its rich votive offerings and terracotta plaques.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
religious landscape of Locri Epizephyrii
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centeredOnSanctuary
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sanctuary of Persephone at Mannella
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linked to: Sanctuary of Persephone