Roman theatre
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The Roman theatre in Mérida, Spain, is a remarkably well-preserved ancient amphitheater that showcases classical Roman architecture and continues to host cultural performances today.
All labels observed (1)
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| Roman theatre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11042466 — 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: Roman theatre Context triple: [Mérida, Spain, notableFor, Roman theatre]
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Roman theater
A Roman theater is a large open-air performance venue from ancient Rome, typically featuring a semi-circular seating area, an orchestra, and an elaborate stage building used for public spectacles and dramas.
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Roman Theatre
The Roman Theatre in Amman is a large, well-preserved 2nd-century AD Roman amphitheater that serves as one of Jordan’s most prominent archaeological and cultural landmarks.
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Roman Theatre (remains)
Roman Theatre (remains) is an archaeological site in Mainz featuring the preserved foundations of a large ancient Roman theater that once hosted public performances and gatherings.
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Theatre of Marcellus, Rome
The Theatre of Marcellus in Rome is an ancient open-air Roman theatre, begun by Julius Caesar and completed by Augustus, that served as a monumental prototype for later European theatre architecture.
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Roman theatre of Ostia
The Roman theatre of Ostia is an ancient open-air performance venue in the former port city of Rome, notable for its well-preserved semicircular seating and role in the social and cultural life of Ostia Antica.
- 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: Roman theatre Target entity description: The Roman theatre in Mérida, Spain, is a remarkably well-preserved ancient amphitheater that showcases classical Roman architecture and continues to host cultural performances today.
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A.
Roman theater
A Roman theater is a large open-air performance venue from ancient Rome, typically featuring a semi-circular seating area, an orchestra, and an elaborate stage building used for public spectacles and dramas.
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B.
Roman Theatre
The Roman Theatre in Amman is a large, well-preserved 2nd-century AD Roman amphitheater that serves as one of Jordan’s most prominent archaeological and cultural landmarks.
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C.
Roman Theatre (remains)
Roman Theatre (remains) is an archaeological site in Mainz featuring the preserved foundations of a large ancient Roman theater that once hosted public performances and gatherings.
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D.
Theatre of Marcellus, Rome
The Theatre of Marcellus in Rome is an ancient open-air Roman theatre, begun by Julius Caesar and completed by Augustus, that served as a monumental prototype for later European theatre architecture.
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E.
Roman theatre of Ostia
The Roman theatre of Ostia is an ancient open-air performance venue in the former port city of Rome, notable for its well-preserved semicircular seating and role in the social and cultural life of Ostia Antica.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Roman theatre Description of subject: The Roman theatre in Mérida, Spain, is a remarkably well-preserved ancient amphitheater that showcases classical Roman architecture and continues to host cultural performances today.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.