Caesarea Maritima
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Caesarea Maritima was a major Roman port city and administrative center on the Mediterranean coast of Judea, notable as the provincial capital where Roman governors such as Pontius Pilate resided.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caesarea Maritima canonical | 50 |
| Caesarea | 4 |
| Caesarea, Israel | 3 |
| Caesarea in Palestine (traditional place of martyrdom) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T207272 — 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: Caesarea Maritima Context triple: [Pontius Pilate, associatedWithPlace, Caesarea Maritima]
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A.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
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B.
Cyrene
Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
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C.
Jericho
Jericho is an ancient city in the West Bank, often regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world and noted for its biblical significance.
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D.
Hebron
Hebron is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, a major historic and religious center in the southern West Bank revered in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
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E.
Smyrna
Smyrna was a major Aegean port city (modern-day İzmir in Turkey) that served as a key commercial and cultural hub in the Ottoman Empire.
- 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: Caesarea Maritima Target entity description: Caesarea Maritima was a major Roman port city and administrative center on the Mediterranean coast of Judea, notable as the provincial capital where Roman governors such as Pontius Pilate resided.
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A.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
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B.
Cyrene
Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
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C.
Jericho
Jericho is an ancient city in the West Bank, often regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world and noted for its biblical significance.
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D.
Hebron
Hebron is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, a major historic and religious center in the southern West Bank revered in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
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E.
Smyrna
Smyrna was a major Aegean port city (modern-day İzmir in Turkey) that served as a key commercial and cultural hub in the Ottoman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman port city
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ancient city ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ provincial capital ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Apostle Paul
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Eusebius of Caesarea ⓘ Origen ⓘ
surface form:
Origen of Alexandria
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| constructionEnd | 10 BCE ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 22 BCE ⓘ |
| country | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| declinePeriod | early Islamic period ⓘ |
| excavatedFrom | 20th century ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Herod the Great ⓘ |
| governorResidence | Pontius Pilate ⓘ |
| hadInstitution |
Christian theological school
ⓘ
Library of Caesarea ⓘ
surface form:
library of Caesarea
|
| harborName | Sebastos ⓘ |
| hasInscription | Pilate Stone ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
Roman theater
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aqueduct ⓘ city walls ⓘ crusader fortress ⓘ deep-water harbor ⓘ hippodrome ⓘ praetorium ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | national park of Israel ⓘ |
| knownFor |
engineering of its artificial harbor
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role in early Christianity ⓘ |
| laterBecame |
Byzantine city
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Crusader stronghold ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Judea ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Israel ⓘ |
| locatedNear | modern Caesarea, Israel ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Acts of the Apostles ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Augustus
ⓘ
surface form:
Caesar Augustus
|
| partOf |
Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima
ⓘ
Herodian Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
Herodian Kingdom of Judea
Judea ⓘ
surface form:
Roman province of Judaea
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| PilateStoneSignificance | earliest archaeological evidence naming Pontius Pilate ⓘ |
| religionInAntiquity |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ Roman paganism ⓘ |
| servedAs |
capital of Roman Judea
ⓘ
seat of Roman procurators ⓘ |
| tourism | major archaeological tourist site in Israel ⓘ |
| was |
center of Roman administration in Judea
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major commercial hub in the eastern Mediterranean ⓘ |
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: Caesarea Maritima Description of subject: Caesarea Maritima was a major Roman port city and administrative center on the Mediterranean coast of Judea, notable as the provincial capital where Roman governors such as Pontius Pilate resided.
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.