Lindinis
E366535
Lindinis is the Roman-era name for the town now known as Ilchester in Somerset, England, which served as an important settlement in Roman Britain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lindinis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3556126 — 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: Lindinis Context triple: [Ilchester, historicalName, Lindinis]
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A.
Linas
Linas is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, located in the Essonne department of the Île-de-France region in northern France.
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B.
Vardenis
Vardenis is a town in eastern Armenia located near Lake Sevan, known as a local administrative and economic center in the Gegharkunik Province.
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C.
Agenais
Agenais refers to the inhabitants or natives of Agen, a historic town in southwestern France.
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D.
Lisnaskea
Lisnaskea is a small market town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, known for serving as a local commercial and community hub for the surrounding rural area.
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E.
Prasne
Prasne is a notable literary work by renowned Indian writer U. R. Ananthamurthy, associated with modern Kannada literature.
- 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: Lindinis Target entity description: Lindinis is the Roman-era name for the town now known as Ilchester in Somerset, England, which served as an important settlement in Roman Britain.
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A.
Linas
Linas is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, located in the Essonne department of the Île-de-France region in northern France.
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B.
Vardenis
Vardenis is a town in eastern Armenia located near Lake Sevan, known as a local administrative and economic center in the Gegharkunik Province.
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C.
Agenais
Agenais refers to the inhabitants or natives of Agen, a historic town in southwestern France.
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D.
Lisnaskea
Lisnaskea is a small market town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, known for serving as a local commercial and community hub for the surrounding rural area.
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E.
Prasne
Prasne is a notable literary work by renowned Indian writer U. R. Ananthamurthy, associated with modern Kannada literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman town
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archaeological site ⓘ |
| archaeologicalEvidence |
building foundations
ⓘ
burials ⓘ coins ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ pottery ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Roman military presence ⓘ |
| chronology |
occupied from 1st century AD
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occupied into late Roman period ⓘ |
| connectedBy | Roman road network ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| currentStatus | subsurface archaeological remains beneath Ilchester ⓘ |
| flourishedDuring |
2nd century
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3rd century ⓘ 4th century ⓘ |
| hasEvidenceOf |
Roman domestic occupation
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Roman industry ⓘ Roman religious activity ⓘ Roman trade ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cemeteries
ⓘ
defensive earthworks ⓘ industrial areas ⓘ stone buildings ⓘ street grid ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Latin toponym ⓘ |
| hasType |
civitas-type settlement
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roadside town ⓘ |
| heritageInterest | site of regional archaeological importance ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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Ilchester ⓘ Roman Britain ⓘ Somerset ⓘ Somerset Levels area ⓘ
linked to:
Somerset Levels
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| modernName | Ilchester ⓘ |
| nameUsedBy |
Roman administrators
ⓘ
Roman geographers ⓘ |
| near | River Yeo ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman road from Dorchester to Ilchester and beyond ⓘ |
| postRomanDevelopment | medieval town of Ilchester ⓘ |
| province | Britannia ⓘ |
| region |
South West England
ⓘ
linked to:
southwest England
|
| significance | important settlement in Roman Britain ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Roman era ⓘ |
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: Lindinis Description of subject: Lindinis is the Roman-era name for the town now known as Ilchester in Somerset, England, which served as an important settlement in Roman Britain.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.