Naisos
E195476
Naisos is an alternative name for Naissus, the ancient city located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia, historically significant as a major Roman and Byzantine center.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1761887 — 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: Naisos Context triple: [Naissus, hasAlternativeName, Naisos]
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A.
Kinana
Kinana is an ancient Arab tribal confederation regarded as one of the major ancestral tribes of the Quraysh and other prominent groups in the Arabian Peninsula.
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B.
Nesta
Nesta is the middle name of legendary Jamaican reggae musician and cultural icon Bob Marley.
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C.
Nese
Nese is an endangered Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the island of Malakula in Vanuatu.
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D.
Le Niêsant
Le Niêsant is a small islet within the Les Minquiers reef and island group in the Channel Islands, known for its remote, tidal environment.
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E.
Nesiota
Nesiota is a small, likely extinct genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, historically known from the South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
- 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: Naisos Target entity description: Naisos is an alternative name for Naissus, the ancient city located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia, historically significant as a major Roman and Byzantine center.
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A.
Kinana
Kinana is an ancient Arab tribal confederation regarded as one of the major ancestral tribes of the Quraysh and other prominent groups in the Arabian Peninsula.
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B.
Nesta
Nesta is the middle name of legendary Jamaican reggae musician and cultural icon Bob Marley.
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C.
Nese
Nese is an endangered Oceanic language spoken by a small community on the island of Malakula in Vanuatu.
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D.
Le Niêsant
Le Niêsant is a small islet within the Les Minquiers reef and island group in the Channel Islands, known for its remote, tidal environment.
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E.
Nesiota
Nesiota is a small, likely extinct genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, historically known from the South Atlantic island of St. Helena.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ancient city ⓘ |
| alternativeNameOf | Naissus ⓘ |
| archaeologicalSiteAt | Niš ⓘ |
| associatedWithEmpire |
Byzantine Empire
ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| correspondsToModernAdministrativeUnit | City of Niš ⓘ |
| flourishedDuringCentury |
3rd century
ⓘ
4th century ⓘ 6th century ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Classical antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Antiquity
Early Byzantine period ⓘ Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
military garrison town
ⓘ
regional administrative center ⓘ |
| knownAsInAntiquity | Naissus ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| locatedInAncientProvince |
Dacia Mediterranea
ⓘ
Moesia ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Niš ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDayCountry | Serbia ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Balkans ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Nišava River ⓘ |
| modernSuccessorCity | Niš ⓘ |
| partOf |
Byzantine Empire
ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| regionInModernTerms |
Southern and Eastern Serbia region
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Serbia
|
| significance |
major Byzantine center
ⓘ
major Roman center ⓘ |
| strategicImportance |
important military crossroads
ⓘ
important trade route junction ⓘ |
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: Naisos Description of subject: Naisos is an alternative name for Naissus, the ancient city located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia, historically significant as a major Roman and Byzantine center.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Naisus