Selasca
E49755
Selasca is a small locality in northern Italy notable as the place where the mathematician Bernhard Riemann died.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selasca canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T373768 — 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: Selasca Context triple: [Bernhard Riemann, deathPlace, Selasca]
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A.
Caprile
Caprile is a surname associated with the architectural firm Lohan Caprile Goettsch Architects.
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B.
Aurunci
The Aurunci were an ancient Italic people of south-central Italy, known from early Roman history and associated with the Oscan-speaking cultural sphere.
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C.
Lovari
Lovari are a subgroup of the Romani people, traditionally known as itinerant horse traders and craftsmen with their own distinct dialect and cultural customs.
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D.
Emilian-Romagnol
Emilian-Romagnol is a Romance language variety spoken primarily in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, known for its distinct phonology and vocabulary compared to standard Italian.
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E.
Lixus
Lixus was an ancient Phoenician (and later Carthaginian and Roman) coastal city in present-day Morocco, known as one of the oldest settlements in Northwest Africa and a key center of Mediterranean trade.
- 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: Selasca Target entity description: Selasca is a small locality in northern Italy notable as the place where the mathematician Bernhard Riemann died.
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A.
Caprile
Caprile is a surname associated with the architectural firm Lohan Caprile Goettsch Architects.
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B.
Aurunci
The Aurunci were an ancient Italic people of south-central Italy, known from early Roman history and associated with the Oscan-speaking cultural sphere.
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C.
Lovari
Lovari are a subgroup of the Romani people, traditionally known as itinerant horse traders and craftsmen with their own distinct dialect and cultural customs.
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D.
Emilian-Romagnol
Emilian-Romagnol is a Romance language variety spoken primarily in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, known for its distinct phonology and vocabulary compared to standard Italian.
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E.
Lixus
Lixus was an ancient Phoenician (and later Carthaginian and Roman) coastal city in present-day Morocco, known as one of the oldest settlements in Northwest Africa and a key center of Mediterranean trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
locality
ⓘ
settlement ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | approximate coordinates near Verbania on Lake Maggiore ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision |
Region of Piedmont
ⓘ
linked to:
Piedmont region of Italy
|
| hasClimate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | association with 19th-century mathematics history ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Italian ⓘ |
| hasNearbyBodyOfWater | Lake Maggiore ⓘ |
| hasTransportConnection | local roads of Verbania area ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
northern Italy
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern Italy
|
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Comune of Verbania
ⓘ
Piedmont ⓘ Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Italian Republic ⓘ |
| locatedInHistoricRegion | Lago Maggiore area ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Intra
ⓘ
Pallanza ⓘ
linked to:
Baveno
|
| locatedOn | western shore of Lake Maggiore ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the place where Bernhard Riemann died ⓘ |
| partOf | Verbania ⓘ |
| significantEvent | death of Bernhard Riemann ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central European Summer Time
ⓘ
Central European Time ⓘ |
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: Selasca Description of subject: Selasca is a small locality in northern Italy notable as the place where the mathematician Bernhard Riemann died.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.