Appian
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Appian was a 2nd-century AD Roman historian of Greek origin best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which includes a detailed account of the Roman civil wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Appian canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1900397 — 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: Appian Context triple: [Caesar’s civil war, documentedBy, Appian]
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A.
Appirio
Appirio is a cloud services and consulting company known for helping enterprises implement and optimize platforms like Salesforce and Workday.
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B.
Power Apps
Power Apps is a Microsoft low-code development platform that enables users to quickly build and deploy custom business applications across web and mobile.
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C.
Gainsight
Gainsight is a customer success and product experience software company known for helping businesses reduce churn, drive expansion, and improve customer retention through data-driven insights and workflows.
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D.
Ultimate Software
Ultimate Software was a leading American provider of cloud-based human capital management and payroll software solutions for businesses.
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E.
Jira
Jira is a widely used project and issue tracking platform, especially popular among software development teams for managing tasks, bugs, and agile workflows.
- 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: Appian Target entity description: Appian was a 2nd-century AD Roman historian of Greek origin best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which includes a detailed account of the Roman civil wars.
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A.
Appirio
Appirio is a cloud services and consulting company known for helping enterprises implement and optimize platforms like Salesforce and Workday.
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B.
Power Apps
Power Apps is a Microsoft low-code development platform that enables users to quickly build and deploy custom business applications across web and mobile.
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C.
Gainsight
Gainsight is a customer success and product experience software company known for helping businesses reduce churn, drive expansion, and improve customer retention through data-driven insights and workflows.
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D.
Ultimate Software
Ultimate Software was a leading American provider of cloud-based human capital management and payroll software solutions for businesses.
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E.
Jira
Jira is a widely used project and issue tracking platform, especially popular among software development teams for managing tasks, bugs, and agile workflows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
2nd-century person
ⓘ
Greek historian ⓘ Roman historian ⓘ ancient historian ⓘ author ⓘ historian ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Roman civil wars (as historian) ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 2nd century AD ⓘ |
| citizenshipContext | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| contributedTo | understanding of Roman civil conflicts ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathCentury | 2nd century AD ⓘ |
| employer | Roman administration ⓘ |
| era | Imperial Roman period ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Greek ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Roman history
ⓘ
historiography ⓘ |
| focusOfWork |
Roman civil wars
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history of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| genre | historical writing ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodDescribed | early Rome to the time of Augustus ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | major source for Roman civil war period ⓘ |
| influenced | later historians of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| knownFor |
detailed account of the Roman civil wars
ⓘ
writing a multi-volume history of Rome ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Greek historiography ⓘ |
| name | Appian self-link ⓘ |
| nameInGreek |
Appian of Alexandria
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surface form:
Appianos
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| nameInLatin | Appianus ⓘ |
| notableWork | Roman History ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
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lawyer ⓘ procurator ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Alexandria
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Rome ⓘ |
| sourceFor |
history of Julius Caesar
ⓘ
history of Pompey ⓘ history of the Second Triumvirate ⓘ proscriptions of the late Republic ⓘ |
| sourceType | primary source for late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| survivingWorks | large portions of Roman History ⓘ |
| workTitle | Roman History ⓘ |
| workTitleInGreek |
Griko
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surface form:
Ῥωμαικά (Rōmaika)
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| workTitleInLatin | Historia Romana ⓘ |
| writingMedium | manuscript ⓘ |
| writingStyle | annalistic and thematic history ⓘ |
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: Appian Description of subject: Appian was a 2nd-century AD Roman historian of Greek origin best known for his multi-volume work "Roman History," which includes a detailed account of the Roman civil wars.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.