Selinus
E314814
Selinus was an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Sicily, notable for its grand Doric temples and strategic position in the western Greek colonial world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selinus canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2967088 — 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: Selinus Context triple: [Megara, foundedColony, Selinus]
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A.
Menetes
Menetes is a genus of rodents in the squirrel family, comprising ground-dwelling squirrels native to parts of Asia.
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B.
Sabinum
Sabinum was the ancient central Italian region traditionally associated with the Sabine people, located in the Apennine area northeast of Rome.
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C.
Corfinium
Corfinium was an ancient city in central Italy that briefly served as the political center of the Italian allies during their revolt against Rome in the Social War (91–88 BCE).
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D.
Ambracia
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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E.
Tithorea
Tithorea was an important ancient city of Phocis in central Greece, known for its strategic location near Mount Parnassus and its role in regional conflicts.
- 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: Selinus Target entity description: Selinus was an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Sicily, notable for its grand Doric temples and strategic position in the western Greek colonial world.
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A.
Menetes
Menetes is a genus of rodents in the squirrel family, comprising ground-dwelling squirrels native to parts of Asia.
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B.
Sabinum
Sabinum was the ancient central Italian region traditionally associated with the Sabine people, located in the Apennine area northeast of Rome.
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C.
Corfinium
Corfinium was an ancient city in central Italy that briefly served as the political center of the Italian allies during their revolt against Rome in the Social War (91–88 BCE).
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D.
Ambracia
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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E.
Tithorea
Tithorea was an important ancient city of Phocis in central Greece, known for its strategic location near Mount Parnassus and its role in regional conflicts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| approximateFoundationDate | circa 650 BC ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Carthage ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| currentSiteName | Selinunte ⓘ |
| destroyedBy |
Carthaginians
ⓘ
linked to:
Punic (Carthaginian) people
|
| destructionDate | 409 BC ⓘ |
| economyBasedOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
trade ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
19th-century archaeologists
ⓘ
Italian archaeological missions ⓘ |
| foundationPeriod | 7th century BC ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Greek colonists from Megara Hyblaea
ⓘ
colonists from Megara (Greece) ⓘ |
| governedAs | Greek polis ⓘ |
| hasArchitecturalStyle | Doric order ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateRegion | Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
acropolis
ⓘ
fortification walls ⓘ grand Doric temples ⓘ harbor ⓘ |
| hasTemple |
Temple A
ⓘ
Temple C ⓘ Temple D ⓘ Temple E ⓘ Temple F ⓘ Temple G ⓘ Temple O ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | important archaeological park of Sicily ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| laterControlledBy |
Carthage
ⓘ
Romans ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Italy
ⓘ
Magna Graecia ⓘ Sicily ⓘ southwest coast of Sicily ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Selinus River ⓘ |
| nearbyGreekCity |
Akragas
ⓘ
Syracuse ⓘ |
| nearbyPower | Carthage ⓘ |
| notableFor |
monumental temple architecture
ⓘ
rich sculptural decoration on temple metopes ⓘ strategic position between Greek and Carthaginian spheres of influence ⓘ |
| partOf | western Greek colonial world ⓘ |
| primaryDeityWorshipped |
Apollo
ⓘ
Hera ⓘ Zeus ⓘ |
| tourism | major tourist attraction in Sicily ⓘ |
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: Selinus Description of subject: Selinus was an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Sicily, notable for its grand Doric temples and strategic position in the western Greek colonial world.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.