Pylae Ciliciae
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Pylae Ciliciae is the ancient name for the Cilician Gates, a strategic mountain pass in the Taurus Mountains of southern Anatolia that historically served as a key route between central Anatolia and the Mediterranean coast.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pylae Ciliciae canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14663369 — 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: Pylae Ciliciae Context triple: [Cilician Gates, knownInAntiquityAs, Pylae Ciliciae]
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A.
Pertuis d’Antioche
Pertuis d’Antioche is a strait on France’s Atlantic coast, between Île de Ré and Île d’Oléron, known for its rich marine biodiversity and role as a protected maritime area.
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B.
Pessinus
Pessinus was an ancient Phrygian city in central Anatolia, renowned as a major religious center dedicated to the worship of the goddess Cybele.
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C.
Termessos
Termessos is an ancient Pisidian city in southwestern Turkey, renowned for its well-preserved ruins dramatically set high in the Taurus Mountains within a national park.
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D.
Ṭarābulus
Ṭarābulus is the Arabic name for Tripoli, a major historic port city and the capital of Libya on the Mediterranean coast.
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E.
Apamea on the Orontes
Apamea on the Orontes was an important Hellenistic and Roman city in Syria, known as a cultural and commercial center of the Seleucid Empire.
- 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: Pylae Ciliciae Target entity description: Pylae Ciliciae is the ancient name for the Cilician Gates, a strategic mountain pass in the Taurus Mountains of southern Anatolia that historically served as a key route between central Anatolia and the Mediterranean coast.
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A.
Pertuis d’Antioche
Pertuis d’Antioche is a strait on France’s Atlantic coast, between Île de Ré and Île d’Oléron, known for its rich marine biodiversity and role as a protected maritime area.
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B.
Pessinus
Pessinus was an ancient Phrygian city in central Anatolia, renowned as a major religious center dedicated to the worship of the goddess Cybele.
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C.
Termessos
Termessos is an ancient Pisidian city in southwestern Turkey, renowned for its well-preserved ruins dramatically set high in the Taurus Mountains within a national park.
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D.
Ṭarābulus
Ṭarābulus is the Arabic name for Tripoli, a major historic port city and the capital of Libya on the Mediterranean coast.
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E.
Apamea on the Orontes
Apamea on the Orontes was an important Hellenistic and Roman city in Syria, known as a cultural and commercial center of the Seleucid Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.