legio
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A legio was the principal military unit of the ancient Roman army, typically consisting of several thousand heavy infantry soldiers supported by cavalry and specialized troops.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| legio canonical | 1 |
| legio comitatensis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11176483 — 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: legio Context triple: [Legio I Adiutrix, type, legio]
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A.
Scuol
Scuol is a Swiss alpine village in the Lower Engadine region of the canton of Graubünden, known for its mineral springs, traditional Romansh culture, and mountain tourism.
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B.
Gymnasium
Gymnasium is a modern open-source toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms, serving as a successor and refinement to OpenAI Gym.
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C.
Colegio de los Rosales
Colegio de los Rosales is a prestigious private school in Madrid, Spain, known for educating members of the Spanish royal family, including King Juan Carlos I.
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D.
Colegio de San Nicolás
Colegio de San Nicolás is a historic Mexican educational institution, founded in the 16th century in Michoacán, known for educating key figures of the country’s independence movement.
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E.
Academy
Academy is the ancient Athenian site that housed Plato’s philosophical school and became synonymous with institutions of higher learning.
- 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: legio Target entity description: A legio was the principal military unit of the ancient Roman army, typically consisting of several thousand heavy infantry soldiers supported by cavalry and specialized troops.
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A.
Scuol
Scuol is a Swiss alpine village in the Lower Engadine region of the canton of Graubünden, known for its mineral springs, traditional Romansh culture, and mountain tourism.
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B.
Gymnasium
Gymnasium is a modern open-source toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms, serving as a successor and refinement to OpenAI Gym.
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C.
Colegio de los Rosales
Colegio de los Rosales is a prestigious private school in Madrid, Spain, known for educating members of the Spanish royal family, including King Juan Carlos I.
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D.
Colegio de San Nicolás
Colegio de San Nicolás is a historic Mexican educational institution, founded in the 16th century in Michoacán, known for educating key figures of the country’s independence movement.
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E.
Academy
Academy is the ancient Athenian site that housed Plato’s philosophical school and became synonymous with institutions of higher learning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin term
ⓘ
ancient Roman military unit ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roman citizenship
ⓘ
Roman expansion ⓘ Roman military discipline ⓘ |
| commandedBy | legatus ⓘ |
| coreComponent | heavy infantry ⓘ |
| disbandmentReason |
defeat
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political reorganization ⓘ |
| equipmentType |
body armor
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helmet ⓘ javelin ⓘ shield ⓘ sword ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from Latin verb legere (to choose, to levy) ⓘ |
| garrisonFunction |
frontier defense
ⓘ
occupation force ⓘ |
| hasNotableExample |
Legio II Augusta
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Legio X Equestris ⓘ Legio XIII Gemina ⓘ |
| identificationSystem |
Roman numeral designation
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cognomen (honorary title) ⓘ |
| includedUnitType |
cavalry
ⓘ
specialized troops ⓘ |
| label | legio ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Latin ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Roman heavy infantry ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman army ⓘ |
| pluralForm | legiones ⓘ |
| recruitmentBasis | Roman citizens ⓘ |
| religiousAspect | oath of loyalty to the emperor ⓘ |
| role |
offensive combat formation
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principal field army unit ⓘ territorial defense ⓘ |
| subdividedInto |
century
ⓘ
cohort ⓘ contubernium ⓘ |
| symbolType | aquila (eagle standard) ⓘ |
| tacticalDoctrine |
cohort formation
ⓘ
manipular formation ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
ancient Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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| trainingEmphasis |
close-order drill
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fortification building ⓘ |
| translatedAs | legion ⓘ |
| typicalStrength |
around 4,000 to 6,000 men
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several thousand soldiers ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
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: legio Description of subject: A legio was the principal military unit of the ancient Roman army, typically consisting of several thousand heavy infantry soldiers supported by cavalry and specialized troops.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: legio