Epulones
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Epulones were members of a specialized Roman priestly college responsible for organizing and overseeing public religious banquets and feasts.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5796183 — 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: Epulones Context triple: [Roman priesthoods, hasPart, Epulones]
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A.
Artinos
Artinos are the inhabitants or natives of the town of Arta, typically referring to its local people and community.
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B.
Phylacus
Phylacus is a figure from Greek mythology known as a leader of the Magnetes, a Thessalian people mentioned in epic tradition.
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C.
Phorcydes
Phorcydes is a primordial sea-deity figure from Greek mythology, often associated with ancient oceanic powers and monstrous offspring.
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D.
Parthenopaeus
Parthenopaeus is a heroic figure in Greek mythology, one of the Seven Against Thebes, renowned for his youthful bravery and tragic death in the campaign against the city.
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E.
Kouretes
Kouretes are mythical armed dancers and guardians in Greek mythology, often associated with protecting divine children and performing ecstatic, ritualistic dances.
- 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: Epulones Target entity description: Epulones were members of a specialized Roman priestly college responsible for organizing and overseeing public religious banquets and feasts.
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A.
Artinos
Artinos are the inhabitants or natives of the town of Arta, typically referring to its local people and community.
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B.
Phylacus
Phylacus is a figure from Greek mythology known as a leader of the Magnetes, a Thessalian people mentioned in epic tradition.
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C.
Phorcydes
Phorcydes is a primordial sea-deity figure from Greek mythology, often associated with ancient oceanic powers and monstrous offspring.
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D.
Parthenopaeus
Parthenopaeus is a heroic figure in Greek mythology, one of the Seven Against Thebes, renowned for his youthful bravery and tragic death in the campaign against the city.
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E.
Kouretes
Kouretes are mythical armed dancers and guardians in Greek mythology, often associated with protecting divine children and performing ecstatic, ritualistic dances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman religious institution
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ancient Roman priestly college ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeities | major Roman gods honored at public feasts ⓘ |
| category |
Ancient Roman priests
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Ancient Roman religious institutions ⓘ Ancient Roman religious titles ⓘ |
| ceremonialContext |
games and spectacles with sacrificial feasts
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public festivals ⓘ |
| country |
ancient Rome
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linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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| culturalSignificance |
expressed Roman piety via public banquets
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reinforced social hierarchy through sacred feasting ⓘ |
| distinctFrom | private religious associations ⓘ |
| establishedBy | Roman Senate ⓘ |
| establishedInPeriod | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from Latin "epulum" meaning banquet or feast ⓘ |
| governedBy | Roman religious law ⓘ |
| hasMemberRole | epulo ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Roman traditions of public hospitality ⓘ |
| integratedWith | Roman political life ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| LatinName |
epulones
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linked to:
Epulones
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| membership | Roman male citizens of elite status ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
city of Rome
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linked to:
Rome
|
| oversaw |
arrangements for dining couches and settings at sacred banquets
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distribution of sacrificial meat at feasts ⓘ logistics of large-scale public religious meals ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman state cult ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
organization of public religious banquets
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oversight of public religious feasts ⓘ |
| reasonForEstablishment |
to manage increasing complexity of public religious feasts
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to relieve other priestly colleges of banquet duties ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
augures
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linked to:
augur
pontifices ⓘ quindecimviri sacris faciundis ⓘ
linked to:
Quindecimviri sacris faciundis
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| religion | ancient Roman religion ⓘ |
| religiousRole | priestly administration of ritual banquets ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
banquets at public festivals
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epula publica ⓘ sacred feasts in honor of the gods ⓘ |
| ritualFocus |
proper ritual conduct during banquets
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sacralization of communal dining ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
civic religion
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public cult ⓘ |
| status | official state priesthood ⓘ |
| typeOf | collegium ⓘ |
| usedRitualObjects |
banquet couches (lecti) for religious feasts
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sacred tableware for offerings and dining ⓘ sacrificial meat portions ⓘ |
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: Epulones Description of subject: Epulones were members of a specialized Roman priestly college responsible for organizing and overseeing public religious banquets and feasts.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.