Tabula Bantina
E43125
Tabula Bantina is an ancient bronze tablet bearing one of the most important surviving inscriptions in the Oscan language, recording laws of a Samnite community in southern Italy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tabula Bantina canonical | 4 |
| Oscan Tabula Bantina | 1 |
| Tabula Agnonensis | 1 |
| Tabulae Iguvinae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T339719 — 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: Tabula Bantina Context triple: [Oscan language, notableInscription, Tabula Bantina]
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A.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
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B.
The Pantiles
The Pantiles is a historic colonnaded promenade and shopping area in Royal Tunbridge Wells, famed for its Georgian architecture, boutiques, and cafés.
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C.
Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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D.
Cyrus Cylinder
The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay artifact inscribed with a proclamation by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, often regarded as an early charter of human rights and a key source on his policies toward conquered peoples.
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E.
Batabanó
Batabanó is a coastal municipality in western Cuba known for its fishing industry and ferry connections to nearby islands.
- 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: Tabula Bantina Target entity description: Tabula Bantina is an ancient bronze tablet bearing one of the most important surviving inscriptions in the Oscan language, recording laws of a Samnite community in southern Italy.
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A.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
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B.
The Pantiles
The Pantiles is a historic colonnaded promenade and shopping area in Royal Tunbridge Wells, famed for its Georgian architecture, boutiques, and cafés.
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C.
Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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D.
Cyrus Cylinder
The Cyrus Cylinder is an ancient clay artifact inscribed with a proclamation by the Persian king Cyrus the Great, often regarded as an early charter of human rights and a key source on his policies toward conquered peoples.
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E.
Batabanó
Batabanó is a coastal municipality in western Cuba known for its fishing industry and ferry connections to nearby islands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Oscan inscription
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ancient bronze tablet ⓘ epigraphic monument ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Samnites ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Bantia ⓘ |
| chronology |
2nd–1st century BCE
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late Republican period ⓘ |
| contains |
clauses on civic offices
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clauses on legal penalties ⓘ clauses on public assemblies ⓘ clauses on voting procedures ⓘ |
| culture | Samnite culture ⓘ |
| epigraphicCategory | Italic law tablet ⓘ |
| foundInRegion | southern Italy ⓘ |
| genre | legal text ⓘ |
| geographicalContext |
Apennine southern Italy
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Lucania ⓘ |
| inscriptionType | bilingual: Oscan and Latin ⓘ |
| legalForm | statutory law ⓘ |
| linguisticFeature | South Oscan dialect ⓘ |
| material | bronze ⓘ |
| medium | bronze tablet ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Bantia ⓘ |
| partiallyPreserved | true ⓘ |
| records | laws of a Samnite community ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Roman municipal law
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Samnite-Roman interactions ⓘ |
| script | Oscan alphabet ⓘ |
| significance |
key source for Samnite public law
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key source for the Oscan language ⓘ one of the most important surviving Oscan inscriptions ⓘ |
| studiedInDiscipline |
ancient legal history
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classical philology ⓘ epigraphy ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
civic administration
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judicial procedures ⓘ magistracies ⓘ municipal regulations ⓘ public law ⓘ |
| usedFor | regulation of a local community ⓘ |
| writingSystemFamily | Italic alphabets ⓘ |
| writtenInLanguage | Oscan language ⓘ |
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: Tabula Bantina Description of subject: Tabula Bantina is an ancient bronze tablet bearing one of the most important surviving inscriptions in the Oscan language, recording laws of a Samnite community in southern Italy.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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