Sanctuary of Aphrodite
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The Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Locri Epizephyrii was an important ancient Greek religious center in southern Italy dedicated to the worship of the goddess of love and beauty, renowned for its rich votive offerings and distinctive cult practices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sanctuary of Aphrodite canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2429027 — 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: Sanctuary of Aphrodite Context triple: [Locri Epizephyrii, hasSanctuary, Sanctuary of Aphrodite]
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Sanctuary of Apollo
The Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene is an important ancient Greek religious complex in modern-day Libya, dedicated to the god Apollo and central to the civic and spiritual life of the classical city.
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Sanctuary of Zeus
The Sanctuary of Zeus at Locri Epizephyrii was an ancient Greek religious site in southern Italy dedicated to the worship of Zeus, reflecting the city’s cultural and spiritual life.
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Temple of Hera
The Temple of Hera on the island of Samos is an ancient Greek sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Hera, renowned for its monumental architecture and significance in classical religion and art.
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Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia
The Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia is an ancient religious complex at Delphi in Greece, famed for its iconic circular tholos and its role as a monumental gateway to the main Delphic sanctuary.
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Sanctuary of Apollo Actius
The Sanctuary of Apollo Actius was an ancient Greek religious complex near Actium dedicated to the god Apollo, renowned for its temple, festivals, and later association with Augustus’ victory over Antony and Cleopatra.
- 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: Sanctuary of Aphrodite Target entity description: The Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Locri Epizephyrii was an important ancient Greek religious center in southern Italy dedicated to the worship of the goddess of love and beauty, renowned for its rich votive offerings and distinctive cult practices.
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A.
Sanctuary of Apollo
The Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene is an important ancient Greek religious complex in modern-day Libya, dedicated to the god Apollo and central to the civic and spiritual life of the classical city.
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B.
Sanctuary of Zeus
The Sanctuary of Zeus at Locri Epizephyrii was an ancient Greek religious site in southern Italy dedicated to the worship of Zeus, reflecting the city’s cultural and spiritual life.
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C.
Temple of Hera
The Temple of Hera on the island of Samos is an ancient Greek sanctuary dedicated to the goddess Hera, renowned for its monumental architecture and significance in classical religion and art.
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D.
Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia
The Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia is an ancient religious complex at Delphi in Greece, famed for its iconic circular tholos and its role as a monumental gateway to the main Delphic sanctuary.
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E.
Sanctuary of Apollo Actius
The Sanctuary of Apollo Actius was an ancient Greek religious complex near Actium dedicated to the god Apollo, renowned for its temple, festivals, and later association with Augustus’ victory over Antony and Cleopatra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek sanctuary
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archaeological site ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Locrian colonists
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Magna Graecia sanctuaries ⓘ goddess of beauty ⓘ goddess of love ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Greek ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Aphrodite ⓘ |
| devotionalFocus |
beauty
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fertility ⓘ love ⓘ marriage ⓘ |
| function | religious center ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalFinds |
architectural fragments
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inscriptions ⓘ terracotta pinakes ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
altars
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ritual spaces ⓘ sacred precinct ⓘ temple structures ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfCult | Aphrodite cult ⓘ |
| hasVotiveOfferings |
ceramic vessels
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figurines ⓘ jewelry ⓘ pinakes ⓘ terracotta plaques ⓘ |
| heritage | Italian archaeological heritage ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distinctive cult practices
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rich votive offerings ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Calabria
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Locri Epizephyrii ⓘ Magna Graecia ⓘ Southern Italy ⓘ
surface form:
southern Italy
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| modernName | Santuario di Afrodite di Locri ⓘ |
| partOf |
Locri Epizephyrii
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surface form:
ancient city of Locri Epizephyrii
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| period |
Archaic period
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Classical period ⓘ |
| primaryDeity | Aphrodite ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Greek religion ⓘ |
| significance |
important sanctuary in Magna Graecia
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major religious center of Locri ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
classical archaeology
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history of Greek religion ⓘ |
| worshippedDeity | Aphrodite ⓘ |
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: Sanctuary of Aphrodite Description of subject: The Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Locri Epizephyrii was an important ancient Greek religious center in southern Italy dedicated to the worship of the goddess of love and beauty, renowned for its rich votive offerings and distinctive cult practices.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.