Dobunni
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The Dobunni were an Iron Age Celtic tribe of southwestern Britain, later incorporated into the Roman province with their main town at Corinium (modern Cirencester).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dobunni canonical | 5 |
| Dobunni territory | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8737438 — 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: Dobunni Context triple: [Corinium Dobunnorum, civitasOf, Dobunni]
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A.
Durosoke
Durosoke is a popular Yoruba-language hip-hop single by Nigerian rapper Olamide, known for its catchy delivery and street-inspired lyrics.
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B.
Borobi
Borobi is a blue koala character created as the official mascot for the 2018 Commonwealth Games held on Australia's Gold Coast.
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C.
Dunipace
Dunipace is a small Scottish village in the Falkirk council area, closely linked with the neighbouring town of Denny.
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D.
Dromi
Dromi is a mythical chain in Norse mythology that was used in an early attempt to bind the monstrous wolf Fenrir.
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E.
Konedobu
Konedobu is a suburb of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, known for housing many government offices and administrative facilities.
- 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: Dobunni Target entity description: The Dobunni were an Iron Age Celtic tribe of southwestern Britain, later incorporated into the Roman province with their main town at Corinium (modern Cirencester).
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A.
Durosoke
Durosoke is a popular Yoruba-language hip-hop single by Nigerian rapper Olamide, known for its catchy delivery and street-inspired lyrics.
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B.
Borobi
Borobi is a blue koala character created as the official mascot for the 2018 Commonwealth Games held on Australia's Gold Coast.
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C.
Dunipace
Dunipace is a small Scottish village in the Falkirk council area, closely linked with the neighbouring town of Denny.
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D.
Dromi
Dromi is a mythical chain in Norse mythology that was used in an early attempt to bind the monstrous wolf Fenrir.
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E.
Konedobu
Konedobu is a suburb of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea, known for housing many government offices and administrative facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Celtic tribe
ⓘ
Iron Age tribe ⓘ |
| archaeologicalEvidence |
rural farmsteads
ⓘ
temple sites at Uley ⓘ villas in Cirencester region ⓘ |
| capital |
Cirencester
ⓘ
Corinium Dobunnorum ⓘ |
| coinagePeriod | late Iron Age ⓘ |
| coinageStyle | inscribed coins ⓘ |
| country | Roman Britain ⓘ |
| culture | Celtic ⓘ |
| economy |
agriculture
ⓘ
metalworking ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Celts
ⓘ
linked to:
Celtic tribes
|
| flourished |
1st century BCE
ⓘ
1st century CE ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSite |
Bagendon
ⓘ
Frocester ⓘ Nympsfield ⓘ Uley ⓘ |
| hasHillfort |
Bagendon hillfort
ⓘ
Maiden Castle (Gloucestershire) ⓘ Uley Bury ⓘ
linked to:
Uley
|
| hasModernTown | Cirencester ⓘ |
| hasRomanName | Corinium Dobunnorum ⓘ |
| incorporatedInto | Roman administrative system ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
Ptolemy's Geography
ⓘ
linked to:
Ptolemy’s Geography
Roman sources ⓘ coinage ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ |
| language | Brittonic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Britannia
ⓘ
southwestern Britain ⓘ |
| neighbouringTribe |
Belgae
ⓘ
Catuvellauni ⓘ Cornovii ⓘ Durotriges ⓘ Silures ⓘ |
| partOf |
Roman province of Britannia
ⓘ
linked to:
Britannia (Roman province)
|
| region |
modern Gloucestershire
ⓘ
parts of modern Somerset ⓘ parts of modern Warwickshire ⓘ parts of modern Worcestershire ⓘ |
| religion | Celtic polytheism ⓘ |
| subduedBy | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Iron Age
ⓘ
Roman Britain ⓘ |
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: Dobunni Description of subject: The Dobunni were an Iron Age Celtic tribe of southwestern Britain, later incorporated into the Roman province with their main town at Corinium (modern Cirencester).
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.