Armilustrium
E340448
Armilustrium was an ancient Roman festival held in honor of Mars that marked the ceremonial purification and storage of soldiers’ weapons at the end of the military campaigning season.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Armilustrium canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3238680 — 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: Armilustrium Context triple: [Mars, festival, Armilustrium]
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A.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois is a French red wine grape variety more commonly known as Malbec, widely used in robust, deeply colored wines.
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B.
Teurnia
Teurnia was an important ancient Roman city that served as a major administrative and cultural center in the province of Noricum, located in what is now southern Austria.
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C.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
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D.
Velitrae
Velitrae is an ancient town in Latium, Italy, historically notable as the birthplace of the future Roman emperor Augustus (Gaius Octavius).
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E.
The Turim
The Turim is a foundational 14th-century Jewish legal code by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher that systematically organizes halakhic rulings into four major sections.
- 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: Armilustrium Target entity description: Armilustrium was an ancient Roman festival held in honor of Mars that marked the ceremonial purification and storage of soldiers’ weapons at the end of the military campaigning season.
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A.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois is a French red wine grape variety more commonly known as Malbec, widely used in robust, deeply colored wines.
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B.
Teurnia
Teurnia was an important ancient Roman city that served as a major administrative and cultural center in the province of Noricum, located in what is now southern Austria.
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C.
Malthace
Malthace was a wife of Herod the Great and the mother of several of his children, including Herod Antipas, placing her within the Herodian royal family of Judea.
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D.
Velitrae
Velitrae is an ancient town in Latium, Italy, historically notable as the birthplace of the future Roman emperor Augustus (Gaius Octavius).
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E.
The Turim
The Turim is a foundational 14th-century Jewish legal code by Rabbi Jacob ben Asher that systematically organizes halakhic rulings into four major sections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman festival
ⓘ
religious festival ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roman army
ⓘ
Roman soldiers ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity | Mars ⓘ |
| culture |
Roman Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Rome
|
| hasCategory |
Festivals of Mars
ⓘ
October observances ⓘ |
| hasEtymology | from Latin "arma" (arms) and "lustrum" (purification) ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
ceremonial purification of weapons
ⓘ
storage of soldiers’ weapons ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Roman religion ⓘ |
| hasRitual |
lustration of arms
ⓘ
processions of soldiers ⓘ sacrificial offerings ⓘ use of torches ⓘ |
| hasRitualObject |
shields
ⓘ
torches ⓘ trumpets ⓘ weapons ⓘ |
| hasType |
military festival
ⓘ
purification ritual ⓘ |
| honors | Mars ⓘ |
| location |
Aventine Hill
ⓘ
Rome ⓘ |
| marks | end of the military campaigning season ⓘ |
| occursOn | October 19 ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman religious calendar ⓘ |
| performedBy |
Roman priests
ⓘ
Roman soldiers ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Equirria
ⓘ
Mars Gradivus ⓘ Quinquatrus ⓘ |
| season | autumn ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
protection of the community by Mars
ⓘ
transition from war to peace ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
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: Armilustrium Description of subject: Armilustrium was an ancient Roman festival held in honor of Mars that marked the ceremonial purification and storage of soldiers’ weapons at the end of the military campaigning season.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mars