Appian Way

E194622

ancient Roman road cultural heritage site

The Appian Way is one of ancient Rome’s earliest and most strategically important roads, historically linking the city to southern Italy and famed as the “Queen of Roads.”

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Appian Way canonical	4
Strada Statale 7 Via Appia	1
Via Appia (Appian Way)	1
Via Appia Antica	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Roman road ⓘ cultural heritage site ⓘ
builtDuring	Roman Republic ⓘ
connects	Beneventum ⓘ surface form: Benevento Brindisi ⓘ Capua ⓘ Rome ⓘ Taranto ⓘ
constructedBy	Appius Claudius Caecus ⓘ
country	Italy ⓘ
endPoint	Brindisi ⓘ Capua ⓘ
follows	route from Rome to southern Italy ⓘ
hasPart	Roman bridges ⓘ basalt paving stones ⓘ milestones ⓘ tombs and mausoleums ⓘ
heritageStatus	part of the Appian Way Regional Park ⓘ sections included in UNESCO World Heritage Site "Via Appia" ⓘ
historicalPeriod	antiquity ⓘ
inception	312 BC ⓘ
knownAs	Queen of Roads ⓘ regina viarum ⓘ surface form: Regina Viarum
locatedIn	Italy ⓘ Rome ⓘ
maintainedBy	ancient Roman state ⓘ
materialUsed	stone paving ⓘ
namedAfter	Appius Claudius Caecus ⓘ
notableEvent	site of crucifixion of Spartacus’ followers ⓘ used during the Second Samnite War ⓘ
partOf	Roman roads ⓘ surface form: Roman road network
presentDayUse	archaeological site ⓘ pedestrian and cycling route ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ
routeType	long-distance road ⓘ
significance	facilitated Roman expansion in Italy ⓘ linked Rome with southern Italy ⓘ one of the earliest Roman paved roads ⓘ strategically important for Roman military campaigns ⓘ
startPoint	Rome ⓘ
traverses	Apulia ⓘ Basilicata ⓘ Campania ⓘ Lazio ⓘ
use	communication route ⓘ military transport ⓘ trade route ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Appian Way
Description of subject: The Appian Way is one of ancient Rome’s earliest and most strategically important roads, historically linking the city to southern Italy and famed as the “Queen of Roads.”

Referenced by (7)

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

Via Appia → alsoKnownAs → Appian Way ⓘ

Via Appia → hasPart → Appian Way ⓘ

this entity surface form: Via Appia Antica

regina viarum → refersTo → Appian Way ⓘ

subject surface form: Regina viarum

Mesagne → roadConnection → Appian Way ⓘ

this entity surface form: Strada Statale 7 Via Appia

Maleventum → locatedOn → Appian Way ⓘ

Baths of Caracalla, Rome → near → Appian Way ⓘ

subject surface form: Baths of Caracalla

Emissario del Lago Albano → locatedNear → Appian Way ⓘ

this entity surface form: Via Appia (Appian Way)