Thysdrus
E92090
Thysdrus was an important Roman-era city in present-day El Jem, Tunisia, known for its prosperity and monumental amphitheatre.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thysdrus canonical | 8 |
| ancient city of Thysdrus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T701877 — 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: Thysdrus Context triple: [El Jem Amphitheatre, builtInCity, Thysdrus]
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A.
Lixus
Lixus was an ancient Phoenician (and later Carthaginian and Roman) coastal city in present-day Morocco, known as one of the oldest settlements in Northwest Africa and a key center of Mediterranean trade.
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B.
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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C.
Cyrene
Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
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D.
Sidon
Sidon is an ancient Phoenician port city, located in present-day Lebanon, that was a major center of maritime trade and culture in the eastern Mediterranean.
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E.
Panticapaeum
Panticapaeum was an important ancient Greek city and trading center on the Cimmerian Bosporus, located where the modern city of Kerch in Crimea now stands.
- 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: Thysdrus Target entity description: Thysdrus was an important Roman-era city in present-day El Jem, Tunisia, known for its prosperity and monumental amphitheatre.
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A.
Lixus
Lixus was an ancient Phoenician (and later Carthaginian and Roman) coastal city in present-day Morocco, known as one of the oldest settlements in Northwest Africa and a key center of Mediterranean trade.
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B.
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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C.
Cyrene
Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
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D.
Sidon
Sidon is an ancient Phoenician port city, located in present-day Lebanon, that was a major center of maritime trade and culture in the eastern Mediterranean.
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E.
Panticapaeum
Panticapaeum was an important ancient Greek city and trading center on the Cimmerian Bosporus, located where the modern city of Kerch in Crimea now stands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman city
ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus |
later colonia in the Roman Empire
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municipium in the Roman Empire ⓘ |
| amphitheatreBuiltUnder | Severan dynasty ⓘ |
| amphitheatreCapacity | about 30000 spectators ⓘ |
| amphitheatreComparableTo |
Colosseum in Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Colosseum
|
| amphitheatreConstructionDate | early 3rd century CE ⓘ |
| amphitheatreFunction |
gladiatorial games
ⓘ
public spectacles ⓘ |
| amphitheatreMaterial | stone ⓘ |
| amphitheatrePreservationState | well-preserved ⓘ |
| amphitheatreShape | elliptical ⓘ |
| amphitheatreUNESCOInscriptionYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| amphitheatreUNESCOStatus | World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid Mediterranean ⓘ |
| country | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| economicBase |
agriculture
ⓘ
olive cultivation ⓘ olive oil export ⓘ |
| floruit |
2nd century CE
ⓘ
3rd century CE ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalRemains |
houses
ⓘ
mosaics ⓘ public buildings ⓘ streets ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSite | ruins of the Roman city ⓘ |
| hasModernName | El Jem ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
Amphitheatre of El Jem
ⓘ
linked to:
El Jem Amphitheatre
|
| heritageSignificance |
major archaeological site in North Africa
ⓘ
one of the largest Roman amphitheatres in the world ⓘ |
| knownFor |
monumental amphitheatre
ⓘ
olive oil production ⓘ prosperity during the Roman Empire ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Latin ⓘ |
| laterReligionPracticed | Christianity ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Africa Proconsularis ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay |
El Jem
ⓘ
Tunisia ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDayRegion |
Sahel region of Tunisia
ⓘ
linked to:
eastern Tunisia
|
| nearbyModernCity |
Sfax
ⓘ
Sousse ⓘ |
| partOf |
Roman province of Africa
ⓘ
linked to:
Africa Proconsularis
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| regionType | urban center ⓘ |
| religionPracticed | Roman paganism ⓘ |
| transportRole | node on Roman road network in Africa ⓘ |
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: Thysdrus Description of subject: Thysdrus was an important Roman-era city in present-day El Jem, Tunisia, known for its prosperity and monumental amphitheatre.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.