Crocodilopolis
E644819
Crocodilopolis was an ancient Egyptian city in the Faiyum region renowned as the principal cult center of the crocodile god Sobek.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crocodilopolis canonical | 4 |
| Crocodilopolis in the Faiyum | 1 |
| Crocodilopolis region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7143212 — 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: Crocodilopolis Context triple: [Sobek, worshipCenter, Crocodilopolis]
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A.
Dender
The Dender is a river in Belgium that flows through Wallonia and Flanders before joining the Scheldt near the city of Dendermonde.
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B.
Hydropolis
Hydropolis is an interactive science center and exhibition space in Wrocław, Poland, dedicated to exploring water from scientific, environmental, and cultural perspectives.
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C.
Naphish
Naphish is a minor biblical figure listed among the descendants of Ishmael in the Hebrew Bible.
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D.
Kalabsha
Kalabsha is an ancient Nubian temple site in southern Egypt, renowned for its well-preserved sandstone temple dedicated to the god Mandulis and relocated during the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
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E.
Heliopolis
Heliopolis is a northeastern district of Cairo, Egypt, known for its early 20th-century planned urban design and historic architecture.
- 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: Crocodilopolis Target entity description: Crocodilopolis was an ancient Egyptian city in the Faiyum region renowned as the principal cult center of the crocodile god Sobek.
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A.
Dender
The Dender is a river in Belgium that flows through Wallonia and Flanders before joining the Scheldt near the city of Dendermonde.
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B.
Hydropolis
Hydropolis is an interactive science center and exhibition space in Wrocław, Poland, dedicated to exploring water from scientific, environmental, and cultural perspectives.
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C.
Naphish
Naphish is a minor biblical figure listed among the descendants of Ishmael in the Hebrew Bible.
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D.
Kalabsha
Kalabsha is an ancient Nubian temple site in southern Egypt, renowned for its well-preserved sandstone temple dedicated to the god Mandulis and relocated during the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
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E.
Heliopolis
Heliopolis is a northeastern district of Cairo, Egypt, known for its early 20th-century planned urban design and historic architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Crocodilopolis Description of subject: Crocodilopolis was an ancient Egyptian city in the Faiyum region renowned as the principal cult center of the crocodile god Sobek.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Crocodilopolis
linked to: Crocodilopolis