Maius
E535860
Maius is the Latin name for the month of May in the ancient Roman calendar, traditionally associated with growth and the goddess Maia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maius canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5534063 — 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: Maius Context triple: [Roman calendar, includedMonth, Maius]
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A.
Maenza
Maenza is a small historic town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its medieval architecture and hilltop setting.
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B.
Nisaea
Nisaea was the port town and harbor of ancient Megara in Greece, serving as its main maritime outlet on the Saronic Gulf.
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C.
Raetihi
Raetihi is a small rural town in New Zealand’s central North Island, known historically as a timber and farming service centre near the Tongariro National Park.
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D.
Menas
Menas is a pirate and follower of Pompey in Shakespeare's tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra," known for proposing a plot to seize control of Rome's leaders.
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E.
Vesali
Vesali was an ancient city that served as a major early capital and cultural center of the Arakan (Rakhine) region in present-day Myanmar.
- 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: Maius Target entity description: Maius is the Latin name for the month of May in the ancient Roman calendar, traditionally associated with growth and the goddess Maia.
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A.
Maenza
Maenza is a small historic town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its medieval architecture and hilltop setting.
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B.
Nisaea
Nisaea was the port town and harbor of ancient Megara in Greece, serving as its main maritime outlet on the Saronic Gulf.
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C.
Raetihi
Raetihi is a small rural town in New Zealand’s central North Island, known historically as a timber and farming service centre near the Tongariro National Park.
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D.
Menas
Menas is a pirate and follower of Pompey in Shakespeare's tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra," known for proposing a plot to seize control of Rome's leaders.
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E.
Vesali
Vesali was an ancient city that served as a major early capital and cultural center of the Arakan (Rakhine) region in present-day Myanmar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman calendar month
ⓘ
month ⓘ time unit ⓘ |
| associatedWithAgriculturalActivities |
crop growth
ⓘ
planting ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
growth
ⓘ
spring ⓘ |
| associatedWithGoddess | Maia ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunisolar (early Roman) to solar (later Roman) ⓘ |
| correspondsToGregorianMonth | May ⓘ |
| etymologyDerivedFrom | Maia ⓘ |
| follows | Aprilis ⓘ |
| hasApproximateOrderNumber | 5 ⓘ |
| hasDayCount | 31 days ⓘ |
| hasNameInEnglish | May ⓘ |
| hasNameInLatin | Maius ⓘ |
| hasTraditionalFestivals |
Ambarvalia
ⓘ
Floralia ⓘ Lemuria ⓘ |
| JulianStatus | month of the Julian calendar ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman calendar year ⓘ |
| positionInYear | fifth month ⓘ |
| precedes | Iunius ⓘ |
| preJulianStatus | month of the pre-Julian Roman calendar ⓘ |
| relatedDeity | Maia ⓘ |
| symbolicMeaning |
fertility
ⓘ
renewal ⓘ |
| typicalLengthInDays | 31 ⓘ |
| typicalSeasonInNorthernHemisphere | spring ⓘ |
| usedByCulture | ancient Romans ⓘ |
| usedInCalendar | ancient Roman calendar ⓘ |
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: Maius Description of subject: Maius is the Latin name for the month of May in the ancient Roman calendar, traditionally associated with growth and the goddess Maia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.