Hippo Regius
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Hippo Regius was an important ancient North African port city in Roman Numidia, best known as the episcopal see of St. Augustine.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hippo Regius canonical | 22 |
| City of Hippo Regius | 1 |
| Hippo (ancient city) | 1 |
| Hippo Regius, modern Annaba, Algeria | 1 |
| Vandal-occupied Hippo Regius | 1 |
| ancient city of Hippo Regius | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T739113 — 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: Hippo Regius Context triple: [St. Augustine, deathPlace, Hippo Regius]
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A.
Leptis Magna
Leptis Magna is an exceptionally well-preserved ancient Roman city on the Mediterranean coast, renowned for its grand architecture and archaeological significance.
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B.
Sabratha
Sabratha is an ancient Phoenician and Roman city on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, renowned for its well-preserved classical ruins and monumental theater.
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C.
City of Alexandria
The City of Alexandria is an independent, historic city in Northern Virginia located along the Potomac River, known for its well-preserved Old Town and colonial-era architecture.
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D.
Pelusium
Pelusium was an ancient fortified port city in the eastern Nile Delta that served as a key military and commercial gateway between Egypt and the Near East.
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E.
Dender
The Dender is a river in Belgium that flows through Wallonia and Flanders before joining the Scheldt near the city of Dendermonde.
- 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: Hippo Regius Target entity description: Hippo Regius was an important ancient North African port city in Roman Numidia, best known as the episcopal see of St. Augustine.
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A.
Leptis Magna
Leptis Magna is an exceptionally well-preserved ancient Roman city on the Mediterranean coast, renowned for its grand architecture and archaeological significance.
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B.
Sabratha
Sabratha is an ancient Phoenician and Roman city on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, renowned for its well-preserved classical ruins and monumental theater.
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C.
City of Alexandria
The City of Alexandria is an independent, historic city in Northern Virginia located along the Potomac River, known for its well-preserved Old Town and colonial-era architecture.
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D.
Pelusium
Pelusium was an ancient fortified port city in the eastern Nile Delta that served as a key military and commercial gateway between Egypt and the Near East.
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E.
Dender
The Dender is a river in Belgium that flows through Wallonia and Flanders before joining the Scheldt near the city of Dendermonde.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Hippo Regius Description of subject: Hippo Regius was an important ancient North African port city in Roman Numidia, best known as the episcopal see of St. Augustine.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hippo Regius
subject linked to:
"The City of God" by Augustine of Hippo
linked to: Hippo Regius
linked to: Hippo Regius
linked to: Hippo Regius
linked to: Hippo Regius
subject linked to:
Book 3
subject linked to:
Book 9