Leonidaion

E15443

Leonidaion is an ancient guesthouse complex at Olympia in Greece, built in the 4th century BCE to accommodate distinguished visitors during the Olympic Games.

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Label Occurrences
Leonidaion canonical 6

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient guesthouse complex
archaeological site
building
architecturalPlan peristyle courtyard
associatedWithEvent ancient Olympic Games
builder Leonidas of Naxos
constructionEndCentury 4th century BCE
constructionStartCentury 4th century BCE
country Greece
culturalContext Panhellenic sanctuary
currentCondition ruin
era Greek Antiquity
surface form: ancient Greece
excavatedBy German Archaeological Institute
surface form: German Archaeological Institute at Athens
function xenon (guesthouse)
hasArchaeologicalSignificance example of large-scale ancient Greek guesthouse
hasFeature central courtyard
guest rooms
monumental entrance
surrounding colonnades
hasHistoricalRole hosting VIPs and officials during Olympic Games
hasTouristAttractionType archaeological ruin
historic building remains
heritageContext ancient Greek architecture
locatedIn Elis
Greece
Olympia
Peloponnese
material brick
stone
tiles
namedAfter Leonidas of Naxos
nearbyStructure Palaestra of Olympia
Stadium of Olympia
Temple of Zeus at Olympia
openToPublic yes
partOf sanctuary of Olympia
surface form: Sanctuary of Olympia

archaeological site of Olympia
period Classical period of ancient Greece
primaryUsePeriod 4th century BCE to Roman period
region Western Greece
UNESCOWorldHeritageContext Archaeological site of Olympia
surface form: Archaeological Site of Olympia
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteSince 1989
usedFor accommodation of distinguished visitors
hospitality during the Olympic Games

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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: Leonidaion
Description of subject: Leonidaion is an ancient guesthouse complex at Olympia in Greece, built in the 4th century BCE to accommodate distinguished visitors during the Olympic Games.

Referenced by (6)

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

Olympia hasStructure Leonidaion
Olympia, Greece hasStructure Leonidaion
sanctuary of Olympia hasPart Leonidaion
subject surface form: Sanctuary of Olympia
Leonidas of Naxos hasNamesake Leonidaion