Ambracia
E298182
Ambracia was an ancient Greek city in Epirus that became an important regional center and later the capital of King Pyrrhus.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ambracia canonical | 9 |
| Ambraciots | 1 |
| ancient Ambracia | 1 |
| ancient city of Ambracia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2772709 — 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: Ambracia Context triple: [Corinth, colonized, Ambracia]
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A.
Ascra
Ascra was an ancient village in Boeotia, Greece, best known as the hometown of the poet Hesiod.
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B.
Antium
Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, Italy, notable as a resort and birthplace of several Roman emperors, including Caligula and Nero.
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C.
Pherae
Pherae was an ancient Greek city in Thessaly known for its political influence and as the seat of the powerful tyrant Jason of Pherae.
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D.
Rhegium
Rhegium was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, located at the Strait of Messina and known for its strategic and commercial significance in Magna Graecia.
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E.
Clusium
Clusium was an important ancient Etruscan city, known for its strategic location in central Italy and its significant role in early Roman history.
- 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: Ambracia Target entity description: Ambracia was an ancient Greek city in Epirus that became an important regional center and later the capital of King Pyrrhus.
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A.
Ascra
Ascra was an ancient village in Boeotia, Greece, best known as the hometown of the poet Hesiod.
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B.
Antium
Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, Italy, notable as a resort and birthplace of several Roman emperors, including Caligula and Nero.
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C.
Pherae
Pherae was an ancient Greek city in Thessaly known for its political influence and as the seat of the powerful tyrant Jason of Pherae.
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D.
Rhegium
Rhegium was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, located at the Strait of Messina and known for its strategic and commercial significance in Magna Graecia.
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E.
Clusium
Clusium was an important ancient Etruscan city, known for its strategic location in central Italy and its significant role in early Roman history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek city
ⓘ
polis ⓘ |
| afterConquestStatus | free city under Roman influence ⓘ |
| colonizedBy | Corinth ⓘ |
| conqueredBy |
Marcus Fulvius Nobilior
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| conquestDate | 189 BC ⓘ |
| country | Greece ⓘ |
| culture | Greek ⓘ |
| currency | silver coins ⓘ |
| declineCause | foundation of Nicopolis by Augustus ⓘ |
| economy | regional trade center ⓘ |
| era |
Classical Greece
ⓘ
Hellenistic Greece ⓘ
linked to:
Hellenistic period
Roman Greece ⓘ |
| flourishedInPeriod | Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| foundationPeriod | 7th century BC ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Gorgus of Corinth ⓘ |
| hasFeature | harbor access via Ambracian Gulf ⓘ |
| hasFortifications | city walls ⓘ |
| hasPublicBuilding |
agora
ⓘ
temples ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| hasType | archaeological site ⓘ |
| knownFor |
regional political importance in Epirus
ⓘ
role in campaigns of Pyrrhus ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Epirus
ⓘ
northwestern Greece ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Epirus region of modern Greece ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Arachthos River ⓘ |
| mentionedBy |
Livy
ⓘ
Polybius ⓘ Strabo ⓘ |
| modernSite | Arta ⓘ |
| near |
Ambracian Gulf
ⓘ
modern city of Arta ⓘ
linked to:
Arta
|
| politicalStatus |
capital city
ⓘ
regional center ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| underRuleOf |
Macedonian Kingdom
ⓘ
Pyrrhus of Epirus ⓘ Roman Republic ⓘ |
| wasCapitalOf |
Kingdom of Epirus
ⓘ
linked to:
Epirus
Pyrrhus of Epirus ⓘ |
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: Ambracia Description of subject: Ambracia was an ancient Greek city in Epirus that became an important regional center and later the capital of King Pyrrhus.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ambracia
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linked to: Ambracia