Meliboea (Magnesia)
E361844
Meliboea (Magnesia) was an ancient coastal town in the region of Magnesia in Thessaly, Greece, known from classical sources for its strategic location along the Aegean Sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Meliboea (Magnesia) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3468252 — 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: Meliboea (Magnesia) Context triple: [Magnesia, contains, Meliboea (Magnesia)]
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A.
Chalcidice
Chalcidice is a peninsula in northern Greece known for its three prongs jutting into the Aegean Sea and its role in ancient Greek history.
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B.
Heraclea Lyncestis
Heraclea Lyncestis was an ancient Macedonian city, later a significant Roman and Byzantine center, located near modern Bitola in North Macedonia.
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C.
Heraclea at Latmus
Heraclea at Latmus was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Caria in Asia Minor, known for its strategic harbor and proximity to Mount Latmus.
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D.
Evrytania
Evrytania is a mountainous regional unit in western Central Greece known for its rugged landscapes, forests, and traditional villages.
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E.
Mantineia
Mantineia was a prominent ancient Greek city-state in Arcadia, noted for its strategic location in the Peloponnese and as the site of several important classical battles.
- 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: Meliboea (Magnesia) Target entity description: Meliboea (Magnesia) was an ancient coastal town in the region of Magnesia in Thessaly, Greece, known from classical sources for its strategic location along the Aegean Sea.
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A.
Chalcidice
Chalcidice is a peninsula in northern Greece known for its three prongs jutting into the Aegean Sea and its role in ancient Greek history.
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B.
Heraclea Lyncestis
Heraclea Lyncestis was an ancient Macedonian city, later a significant Roman and Byzantine center, located near modern Bitola in North Macedonia.
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C.
Heraclea at Latmus
Heraclea at Latmus was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Caria in Asia Minor, known for its strategic harbor and proximity to Mount Latmus.
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D.
Evrytania
Evrytania is a mountainous regional unit in western Central Greece known for its rugged landscapes, forests, and traditional villages.
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E.
Mantineia
Mantineia was a prominent ancient Greek city-state in Arcadia, noted for its strategic location in the Peloponnese and as the site of several important classical battles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek city
ⓘ
ancient coastal town ⓘ |
| category |
Ancient Thessalian cities
ⓘ
Former populated places in Greece ⓘ Populated places in ancient Magnesia ⓘ |
| civilization | Ancient Greek civilization ⓘ |
| country |
Ancient Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
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| geographicalContext | eastern coast of Thessaly ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
coastal location
ⓘ
strategic position on the Aegean coast ⓘ |
| hasNameInGreek | Μελίβοια ⓘ |
| hasNameInLatin | Meliboea ⓘ |
| knownFor |
maritime connections in the Aegean Sea
ⓘ
strategic coastal position ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Greece
ⓘ
Magnesia ⓘ Thessaly ⓘ |
| locatedInModernCountry | Greece ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Aegean Sea ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | classical sources ⓘ |
| partOf |
ancient region of Thessaly
ⓘ
region of Magnesia ⓘ |
| regionType | polis ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Classical antiquity ⓘ |
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: Meliboea (Magnesia) Description of subject: Meliboea (Magnesia) was an ancient coastal town in the region of Magnesia in Thessaly, Greece, known from classical sources for its strategic location along the Aegean Sea.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.