Gordium
E309420
Gordium was the ancient city in central Anatolia famed as the seat of the Phrygian kings and the site of the legendary Gordian Knot associated with Alexander the Great.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gordium canonical | 6 |
| chariot of Gordias | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2907913 — 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: Gordium Context triple: [Phrygia, capital, Gordium]
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A.
Gordian
Gordian is a company that provides data-driven software and services for construction cost estimating, procurement, and facilities management.
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B.
Ear of Dionysius
The Ear of Dionysius is a famous, ear-shaped artificial cave in Syracuse, Sicily, renowned for its exceptional acoustics and dramatic history.
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C.
Erisioni
Erisioni is a renowned Georgian folk song and dance ensemble celebrated for preserving and showcasing Georgia’s traditional music, choreography, and cultural heritage on international stages.
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D.
Tanagra
Tanagra was an ancient Greek city in Boeotia, noted for its strategic location and for the finely crafted terracotta figurines known as Tanagra figurines.
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E.
Anticyra
Anticyra is an ancient Greek coastal town in the region of Phocis, historically noted for its harbor and its association with medicinal hellebore.
- 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: Gordium Target entity description: Gordium was the ancient city in central Anatolia famed as the seat of the Phrygian kings and the site of the legendary Gordian Knot associated with Alexander the Great.
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A.
Gordian
Gordian is a company that provides data-driven software and services for construction cost estimating, procurement, and facilities management.
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B.
Ear of Dionysius
The Ear of Dionysius is a famous, ear-shaped artificial cave in Syracuse, Sicily, renowned for its exceptional acoustics and dramatic history.
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C.
Erisioni
Erisioni is a renowned Georgian folk song and dance ensemble celebrated for preserving and showcasing Georgia’s traditional music, choreography, and cultural heritage on international stages.
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D.
Tanagra
Tanagra was an ancient Greek city in Boeotia, noted for its strategic location and for the finely crafted terracotta figurines known as Tanagra figurines.
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E.
Anticyra
Anticyra is an ancient Greek coastal town in the region of Phocis, historically noted for its harbor and its association with medicinal hellebore.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alexander the Great
ⓘ
Gordian Knot legend ⓘ
surface form:
Gordian Knot
King Gordias ⓘ King Midas ⓘ |
| conqueredBy | Alexander the Great ⓘ |
| country | Turkey ⓘ |
| culture |
Phrygians
ⓘ
surface form:
Phrygian culture
|
| destroyedInCentury | 7th century BC ⓘ |
| destroyedInEvent | Cimmerian invasion ⓘ |
| distanceFromAnkara | approximately 70 km southwest ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Rodney S. Young
ⓘ
Penn Museum ⓘ
surface form:
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
|
| flourishedInCentury |
7th century BC
ⓘ
8th century BC ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalFind |
Phrygian inscriptions
ⓘ
Phrygian pottery ⓘ bronze vessels ⓘ ivory inlays ⓘ textiles ⓘ wooden furniture ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
city gate
ⓘ
fortification walls ⓘ megaron buildings ⓘ palatial complex ⓘ |
| hasLegend | Gordian Knot legend ⓘ |
| hasNotableTumulus | Tumulus MM ⓘ |
| hasStructureType |
citadel mound
ⓘ
tumulus ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Phrygian tumuli necropolis
ⓘ
well-preserved wooden artifacts from Tumulus MM ⓘ |
| laterControlledBy |
Achaemenid Empire
ⓘ
Hellenistic kingdoms ⓘ Macedon ⓘ
surface form:
Macedonian Empire
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Phrygia
ⓘ
central Anatolia ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | Iron Age ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Polatlı
ⓘ
Sakarya River ⓘ |
| modernAdministrativeRegion | Ankara Province ⓘ |
| modernCountry |
Turkey
ⓘ
surface form:
Republic of Turkey
|
| onTradeRoute | Royal Road ⓘ |
| seatOf | Phrygian kings ⓘ |
| servedAs | capital of Phrygia ⓘ |
| Tumulus MMAssociatedWith | King Midas ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | on UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List ⓘ |
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: Gordium Description of subject: Gordium was the ancient city in central Anatolia famed as the seat of the Phrygian kings and the site of the legendary Gordian Knot associated with Alexander the Great.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
chariot of Gordias