Cilicia

E111287

ancient region historical region

Cilicia was an ancient coastal region in southeastern Asia Minor, known for its strategic location, rugged terrain, and role as a crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Near East.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Cilicia canonical	68
Cilicia Pedias	6
Cilicia (historical region)	2
Cilicia Secunda	2
Rough Cilicia	2
Cilicia (for a limited period and areas)	1
Cilicia (partly)	1
Cilicia province	1
Cilicia region	1
Roman Cilicia	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient region ⓘ historical region ⓘ
administrativeStatusInRomanEmpire	province ⓘ
borders	Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
capital	Tarsus ⓘ
coastType	eastern Mediterranean coast ⓘ
conqueredBy	Alexander the Great ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ Roman Republic ⓘ
containsPass	Cilician Gates ⓘ
crossroadsBetween	Mediterranean ⓘ Middle East ⓘ surface form: Near East
hasMountainRange	Taurus Mountains ⓘ
hasSubregion	Cilicia self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Cilicia Pedias Cilicia Trachea ⓘ
knownFor	maritime trade ⓘ piracy in antiquity ⓘ rugged terrain ⓘ strategic location ⓘ
languageSpoken	Aramaic ⓘ Greek ⓘ Cuneiform Luwian ⓘ surface form: Luwian
locatedIn	Anatolia ⓘ Asia Minor ⓘ
locatedInPresentDay	Turkey ⓘ
majorCity	Adana ⓘ Anazarbus ⓘ Mopsuestia ⓘ Tarsus ⓘ
modernEquivalentRegion	Jazira plain ⓘ surface form: Çukurova plain
notablePersonAssociated	Apostle Paul ⓘ surface form: Paul the Apostle
partOf	Achaemenid Empire ⓘ Byzantine Empire ⓘ Hellenistic period ⓘ surface form: Hellenistic world Ottoman Empire ⓘ Roman Empire ⓘ
religionPracticed	Greco-Roman paganism ⓘ early Christianity ⓘ
ruledBy	Achaemenid Empire ⓘ surface form: Achaemenid Persians Alexander the Great ⓘ Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia ⓘ Assyria ⓘ surface form: Assyrian Empire Byzantine Empire ⓘ Hittite Empire ⓘ surface form: Hittites Roman Empire ⓘ Roman Republic ⓘ Seleucid Empire ⓘ
traversedBy	Cilician Gates ⓘ Silk Road branches ⓘ

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: Cilicia
Description of subject: Cilicia was an ancient coastal region in southeastern Asia Minor, known for its strategic location, rugged terrain, and role as a crossroads between the Mediterranean and the Near East.

Referenced by (85)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Typhoeus → associatedPlace → Cilicia ⓘ

Typhonomachy → hasLocation → Cilicia ⓘ

Luwian polities → regionIncluded → Cilicia ⓘ

Cilician Armenia → locatedIn → Cilicia ⓘ

Frederick I Barbarossa → deathRegion → Cilicia ⓘ

Tarsus → locatedIn → Cilicia ⓘ

Tarsus → partOf → Cilicia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cilicia Pedias

Tarsus → hasHistoricalRegion → Cilicia ⓘ

Occupied Enemy Territory Administration → appliesToJurisdiction → Cilicia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cilicia (for a limited period and areas)

Chrysippus of Soli → birthPlace → Cilicia ⓘ

Pamphylia → borderedBy → Cilicia ⓘ

Lydian Kingdom → neighbor → Cilicia ⓘ

Selinus in Cilicia → locatedIn → Cilicia ⓘ

Selinus in Cilicia → partOf → Cilicia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Cilicia

Selinus in Cilicia → historicalProvince → Cilicia ⓘ

Selinus in Cilicia → locatedIn → Cilicia ⓘ

subject surface form: Trajanopolis

Battle of Issus → location → Cilicia ⓘ

Seleucid Empire → territoryIncludes → Cilicia ⓘ

Armistice of Mudros → allowedOccupationOf → Cilicia ⓘ

Hugh of Vermandois → deathPlace → Cilicia ⓘ

Cilicia → hasSubregion → Cilicia self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cilicia Pedias

Beylik of Karaman → locatedIn → Cilicia ⓘ

Simplicius of Cilicia → birthPlace → Cilicia ⓘ

Patriarchate of Antioch → jurisdictionRegion → Cilicia ⓘ

Lycaonia → borders → Cilicia ⓘ

Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia → jurisdictionRegions → Cilicia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cilicia (historical region)

Isauria → partOf → Cilicia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cilicia (historical region)

Isauria → neighboringRegion → Cilicia ⓘ

Adana massacre → location → Cilicia ⓘ

Eastern Roman provinces → includedProvince → Cilicia ⓘ

Sis → locatedIn → Cilicia ⓘ

Vahka → locatedIn → Cilicia ⓘ

Rubenid dynasty → region → Cilicia ⓘ

Hethumid dynasty → region → Cilicia ⓘ

Leo V of Armenia → historicalRegion → Cilicia ⓘ

Leo I of Armenia → birthPlace → Cilicia ⓘ

Leo I of Armenia → regionRuled → Cilicia ⓘ

Middle Armenian → region → Cilicia ⓘ

Ottoman Christian genocides → location → Cilicia ⓘ

Mopsuestia → locatedIn → Cilicia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cilicia Pedias

Mopsuestia → partOf → Cilicia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cilicia Secunda

Athenodorus Cananites → region → Cilicia ⓘ

Nestor of Tarsus → countryOfOrigin → Cilicia ⓘ

Nestor of Tarsus → associatedWith → Cilicia ⓘ

Diodorus of Tarsus → region → Cilicia ⓘ

Tarsos → locatedIn → Cilicia ⓘ

Tarsos → regionCapitalOf → Cilicia ⓘ

Tarsus River → historicalRegion → Cilicia ⓘ

Tarsus River → flowsThrough → Cilicia ⓘ