city of Amphissa
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The city of Amphissa was an ancient Greek polis in the region of Locris, known for its involvement in the Fourth Sacred War and its strategic position near Delphi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| city of Amphissa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T619439 — 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: city of Amphissa Context triple: [Fourth Sacred War, belligerent, city of Amphissa]
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A.
Pherae
Pherae was an ancient Greek city in Thessaly known for its political influence and as the seat of the powerful tyrant Jason of Pherae.
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B.
City of Pella
The City of Pella is a small Iowa community known for its strong Dutch heritage, historic architecture, and vibrant annual celebrations.
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C.
Demetrias
Demetrias was an ancient Greek city in the region of Thessaly, known as a significant Hellenistic and later Roman urban and naval center.
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D.
Lampsacus
Lampsacus was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of the Hellespont, known as a center of philosophy and culture in classical antiquity.
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E.
Locri Epizephyrii
Locri Epizephyrii was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, renowned for its early legal code and cultural influence within Magna Graecia.
- 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: city of Amphissa Target entity description: The city of Amphissa was an ancient Greek polis in the region of Locris, known for its involvement in the Fourth Sacred War and its strategic position near Delphi.
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A.
Pherae
Pherae was an ancient Greek city in Thessaly known for its political influence and as the seat of the powerful tyrant Jason of Pherae.
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B.
City of Pella
The City of Pella is a small Iowa community known for its strong Dutch heritage, historic architecture, and vibrant annual celebrations.
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C.
Demetrias
Demetrias was an ancient Greek city in the region of Thessaly, known as a significant Hellenistic and later Roman urban and naval center.
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D.
Lampsacus
Lampsacus was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of the Hellespont, known as a center of philosophy and culture in classical antiquity.
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E.
Locri Epizephyrii
Locri Epizephyrii was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, renowned for its early legal code and cultural influence within Magna Graecia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek polis
ⓘ
city ⓘ |
| accusedOf | cultivating sacred land of Delphi ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Delphic sanctuary
ⓘ
linked to:
Panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi
|
| besiegedBy | Philip II of Macedon ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Amphictyonic League ⓘ |
| country |
Ancient Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
|
| culture | Greek ⓘ |
| eraOfProminence | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| governedBy | local magistrates ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant | Amfissa ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalSystem | polis ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Locris
ⓘ
Ozolian Locris ⓘ
linked to:
Locris
|
| locatedNear | Delphi ⓘ |
| locatedOn | mainland Greece ⓘ |
| mentionedBy |
Pausanias
ⓘ
Strabo ⓘ |
| modernSuccessor | Amfissa ⓘ |
| near | Gulf of Corinth ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Fourth Sacred War ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ozolian Locrians
ⓘ
linked to:
Locrians
|
| region |
Central Greece
ⓘ
linked to:
central Greece
|
| religion | Ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| strategicRole | controlled routes toward Delphi ⓘ |
| subregionOf |
Phocian–Locrian area
ⓘ
linked to:
Locris
|
| timePeriod |
Classical Greece
ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| typeOfLocation | fortified city ⓘ |
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: city of Amphissa Description of subject: The city of Amphissa was an ancient Greek polis in the region of Locris, known for its involvement in the Fourth Sacred War and its strategic position near Delphi.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.