Egeria
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Egeria is a nymph from Roman mythology who served as a divine counselor and consort to the legendary king Numa Pompilius.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Egeria canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6025061 — 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: Egeria Context triple: [Numa Pompilius, spouse, Egeria]
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A.
Egeria
Egeria was a late 4th-century Christian pilgrim and travel writer whose detailed account of her journey to the Holy Land provides one of the earliest and most important sources on early Christian worship and pilgrimage practices.
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B.
Leonessa
Leonessa is a historic mountain town in central Italy, known for its medieval architecture and scenic location in the Apennines.
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C.
Corinna
Corinna was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Boeotia, renowned for her choral poetry composed in the Aeolic dialect.
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D.
Almirena
Almirena is a central soprano role in George Frideric Handel’s opera "Rinaldo," portrayed as the virtuous and beloved daughter of the Christian leader Goffredo.
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E.
Hilaeira
Hilaeira is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the daughters of Leucippus who, along with her sister Phoebe, was abducted by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
- 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: Egeria Target entity description: Egeria is a nymph from Roman mythology who served as a divine counselor and consort to the legendary king Numa Pompilius.
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A.
Egeria
Egeria was a late 4th-century Christian pilgrim and travel writer whose detailed account of her journey to the Holy Land provides one of the earliest and most important sources on early Christian worship and pilgrimage practices.
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B.
Leonessa
Leonessa is a historic mountain town in central Italy, known for its medieval architecture and scenic location in the Apennines.
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C.
Corinna
Corinna was an ancient Greek lyric poet from Boeotia, renowned for her choral poetry composed in the Aeolic dialect.
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D.
Almirena
Almirena is a central soprano role in George Frideric Handel’s opera "Rinaldo," portrayed as the virtuous and beloved daughter of the Christian leader Goffredo.
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E.
Hilaeira
Hilaeira is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the daughters of Leucippus who, along with her sister Phoebe, was abducted by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Camena
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Roman mythological figure ⓘ nymph ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Aricia
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Rome ⓘ Valle della Caffarella ⓘ grove of Egeria ⓘ spring of Egeria ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Camenae
ⓘ
Numa Pompilius ⓘ |
| attribute |
piety
ⓘ
prophecy ⓘ wisdom ⓘ |
| category |
Characters in Roman legendary history
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Nymphs in Roman mythology ⓘ Water deities in Roman mythology ⓘ |
| counseled | Numa Pompilius ⓘ |
| cultLocation | near the Porta Capena in Rome ⓘ |
| culture |
Roman mythology
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman religion
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| describedAs |
Numa’s secret nocturnal advisor
ⓘ
inspirer of Roman religious institutions ⓘ |
| domain |
prophetic waters
ⓘ
sacred springs ⓘ |
| function | advisor on religious and legal institutions ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| influenced | Numa’s religious reforms ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Roman religious law
ⓘ
foundation of Roman priesthoods ⓘ ritual calendar of Rome ⓘ |
| mourningFor | Numa Pompilius ⓘ |
| mythologicalEra | regal period of Rome ⓘ |
| nature | water nymph ⓘ |
| role |
consort of Numa Pompilius
ⓘ
divine counselor ⓘ |
| source |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities
ⓘ
linked to:
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita ⓘ Ovid’s Fasti ⓘ
linked to:
Ovid's Fasti
|
| spouseOrConsort | Numa Pompilius ⓘ |
| taught |
religious rites to Numa Pompilius
ⓘ
ritual laws to Numa Pompilius ⓘ sacred regulations to Numa Pompilius ⓘ |
| title | goddess of wisdom and prophecy ⓘ |
| transformationCause | grief for Numa Pompilius ⓘ |
| transformedInto | spring ⓘ |
| worshipedAs | local deity of springs ⓘ |
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: Egeria Description of subject: Egeria is a nymph from Roman mythology who served as a divine counselor and consort to the legendary king Numa Pompilius.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.