Paestum
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Paestum is an ancient Greek and later Roman city in southern Italy renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved Doric Greek temples and archaeological remains.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paestum canonical | 9 |
| Capaccio Paestum | 1 |
| Paestum archaeological area | 1 |
| Poseidonia (Paestum) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2030419 — 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: Paestum Context triple: [Campania, contains, Paestum]
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A.
Metapontum
Metapontum was an important ancient Greek city in southern Italy, known for its fertile land, temples, and role within the colonies of Magna Graecia.
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B.
Tarquinia
Tarquinia is an ancient Etruscan city in central Italy renowned for its richly painted tombs and significant archaeological remains.
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C.
Baiae
Baiae was an ancient Roman resort town on the Bay of Naples famed for its luxurious villas, thermal baths, and popularity among the Roman elite.
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D.
Ligor
Ligor was an important historical port city and regional center on the Malay Peninsula, known for its role in maritime trade and as a strategic outpost in Southeast Asian empires.
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E.
Locri Epizephyrii
Locri Epizephyrii was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, renowned for its early legal code and cultural influence within Magna Graecia.
- 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: Paestum Target entity description: Paestum is an ancient Greek and later Roman city in southern Italy renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved Doric Greek temples and archaeological remains.
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A.
Metapontum
Metapontum was an important ancient Greek city in southern Italy, known for its fertile land, temples, and role within the colonies of Magna Graecia.
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B.
Tarquinia
Tarquinia is an ancient Etruscan city in central Italy renowned for its richly painted tombs and significant archaeological remains.
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C.
Baiae
Baiae was an ancient Roman resort town on the Bay of Naples famed for its luxurious villas, thermal baths, and popularity among the Roman elite.
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D.
Ligor
Ligor was an important historical port city and regional center on the Malay Peninsula, known for its role in maritime trade and as a strategic outpost in Southeast Asian empires.
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E.
Locri Epizephyrii
Locri Epizephyrii was an important ancient Greek colony in southern Italy, renowned for its early legal code and cultural influence within Magna Graecia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Paestum Description of subject: Paestum is an ancient Greek and later Roman city in southern Italy renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved Doric Greek temples and archaeological remains.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Poseidonia (Paestum)
this entity surface form:
Paestum archaeological area
this entity surface form:
Capaccio Paestum