Selinous
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Selinous is an ancient town in the region of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey, known from classical antiquity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Selinous canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3344261 — 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: Selinous Context triple: [Selinus in Cilicia, hasAlternativeName, Selinous]
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A.
Arethousa
Arethousa is a nymph from Greek mythology, closely associated with a sacred spring and often linked to the goddess Artemis.
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B.
Cadmea
Cadmea was the ancient fortified citadel at the heart of Thebes in Boeotia, serving as its political and military stronghold.
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C.
Gytheio
Gytheio is a historic coastal town and port in the southern Peloponnese of Greece, known as the former seaport of ancient Sparta and a gateway to the Laconian Gulf.
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D.
Iasos
Iasos was an ancient Greek coastal city in Caria, in southwestern Asia Minor, known for its harbor, fisheries, and distinctive local culture.
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E.
Cyrrhus
Cyrrhus was an ancient city in northern Syria, notable as a regional center in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
- 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: Selinous Target entity description: Selinous is an ancient town in the region of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey, known from classical antiquity.
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A.
Arethousa
Arethousa is a nymph from Greek mythology, closely associated with a sacred spring and often linked to the goddess Artemis.
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B.
Cadmea
Cadmea was the ancient fortified citadel at the heart of Thebes in Boeotia, serving as its political and military stronghold.
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C.
Gytheio
Gytheio is a historic coastal town and port in the southern Peloponnese of Greece, known as the former seaport of ancient Sparta and a gateway to the Laconian Gulf.
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D.
Iasos
Iasos was an ancient Greek coastal city in Caria, in southwestern Asia Minor, known for its harbor, fisheries, and distinctive local culture.
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E.
Cyrrhus
Cyrrhus was an ancient city in northern Syria, notable as a regional center in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
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: Selinous Description of subject: Selinous is an ancient town in the region of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey, known from classical antiquity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.