Isurium Brigantum
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Isurium Brigantum was a significant Roman town and military center in northern Britain, located at modern Aldborough in North Yorkshire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isurium Brigantum canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8345319 — 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: Isurium Brigantum Context triple: [Britannia Inferior, otherImportantSite, Isurium Brigantum]
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A.
Brigantium
Brigantium was a significant Roman-era settlement in the province of Raetia, located near present-day Bregenz on the eastern shore of Lake Constance.
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B.
Noviodunum
Noviodunum was an important Roman military and naval base on the lower Danube, in the province of Moesia (modern-day Romania).
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C.
Durocortorum
Durocortorum was an important Roman city in northeastern Gaul, known today as Reims in France.
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D.
Novempopulania
Novempopulania was a late Roman province in southwestern Gaul, roughly corresponding to parts of modern Aquitaine and Gascony in France.
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E.
Dacia Ripensis
Dacia Ripensis was a late Roman province along the Danube frontier in the Balkans, known as a militarized border region of the empire.
- 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: Isurium Brigantum Target entity description: Isurium Brigantum was a significant Roman town and military center in northern Britain, located at modern Aldborough in North Yorkshire.
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A.
Brigantium
Brigantium was a significant Roman-era settlement in the province of Raetia, located near present-day Bregenz on the eastern shore of Lake Constance.
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B.
Noviodunum
Noviodunum was an important Roman military and naval base on the lower Danube, in the province of Moesia (modern-day Romania).
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C.
Durocortorum
Durocortorum was an important Roman city in northeastern Gaul, known today as Reims in France.
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D.
Novempopulania
Novempopulania was a late Roman province in southwestern Gaul, roughly corresponding to parts of modern Aquitaine and Gascony in France.
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E.
Dacia Ripensis
Dacia Ripensis was a late Roman province along the Danube frontier in the Balkans, known as a militarized border region of the empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman town
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| archaeologicalExcavations |
19th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Brigantes ⓘ |
| connectedBy | Roman road network ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culture | Roman ⓘ |
| evidenceFrom |
building remains
ⓘ
coins ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ pottery ⓘ |
| flourishedInCentury |
2nd century
ⓘ
3rd century ⓘ 4th century ⓘ |
| function |
administrative centre
ⓘ
market town ⓘ |
| governedBy | Roman administration ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
defensive earthworks
ⓘ
forum ⓘ inscribed stones ⓘ mosaic floors ⓘ public buildings ⓘ street grid ⓘ town walls ⓘ |
| hasRemains |
foundations of buildings
ⓘ
mosaics in situ ⓘ sections of town defences ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | protected archaeological site ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aldborough
ⓘ
England ⓘ North Yorkshire ⓘ Roman Britain ⓘ northern Britain ⓘ |
| modernSite |
Aldborough, North Yorkshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Aldborough
|
| namedAfter | River Ure ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement | Aldborough ⓘ |
| nearbyWaterBody | River Ure ⓘ |
| partOf | Brigantian territory ⓘ |
| province | Britannia ⓘ |
| region | Yorkshire ⓘ |
| servedAs |
civic centre
ⓘ
military centre ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Roman period ⓘ |
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: Isurium Brigantum Description of subject: Isurium Brigantum was a significant Roman town and military center in northern Britain, located at modern Aldborough in North Yorkshire.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.