Witiges
E340639
Witiges was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths best known for leading the Gothic resistance against the Eastern Roman Empire during the Gothic War in Italy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Witiges canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3247944 — 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: Witiges Context triple: [Ostrogothic Kingdom, notableRuler, Witiges]
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A.
Osthoff
Osthoff is a German-language surname borne by various individuals, including those of notable public and historical prominence.
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B.
Achim
Achim is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany, located near the city of Bremen.
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C.
Heurich
Heurich is a German surname most notably associated with Christian Heurich, a prominent brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Weinert
Weinert is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as the arts, sciences, and public life.
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E.
Neudeck
Neudeck is a village in former East Prussia (now Ogrodzieniec in Poland) historically known as the family estate and place of death of German President and World War I field marshal Paul von Hindenburg.
- 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: Witiges Target entity description: Witiges was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths best known for leading the Gothic resistance against the Eastern Roman Empire during the Gothic War in Italy.
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A.
Osthoff
Osthoff is a German-language surname borne by various individuals, including those of notable public and historical prominence.
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B.
Achim
Achim is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany, located near the city of Bremen.
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C.
Heurich
Heurich is a German surname most notably associated with Christian Heurich, a prominent brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Weinert
Weinert is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as the arts, sciences, and public life.
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E.
Neudeck
Neudeck is a village in former East Prussia (now Ogrodzieniec in Poland) historically known as the family estate and place of death of German President and World War I field marshal Paul von Hindenburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
6th-century monarch
ⓘ
Ostrogothic king ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| capital | Ravenna ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Belisarius ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 6th century ⓘ |
| conflict |
Byzantine–Ostrogothic conflicts
ⓘ
surface form:
Gothic War (535–554)
|
| countryRuled |
Italy
ⓘ
Ostrogothic Kingdom ⓘ |
| diedIn |
Constantinople (probable)
ⓘ
surface form:
Constantinople
Byzantine Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Roman Empire
|
| era | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Goths
ⓘ
surface form:
Ostrogoth
|
| event |
Siege of Rome (537–538)
ⓘ
surface form:
siege of Rome (537–538)
|
| historicalSource |
Procopius
ⓘ
surface form:
Procopius of Caesarea
|
| languageSpoken |
Gothic
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| led |
Siege of Rome (537–538)
ⓘ
surface form:
siege of Rome (537–538)
|
| notableBattle | defense of Ravenna ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading the Gothic resistance against the Eastern Roman Empire
ⓘ
role in the Gothic War in Italy ⓘ |
| occupation | king ⓘ |
| opponent |
Belisarius
ⓘ
Byzantine Empire ⓘ Byzantine Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Roman Empire
Justinian I ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Theoderic the Great
ⓘ
surface form:
King of the Ostrogoths
|
| predecessor | Theodahad ⓘ |
| regionOfRule | Italian Peninsula ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 540 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 536 ⓘ |
| religion |
Arianism
ⓘ
surface form:
Arian Christianity
|
| spouse | Matasuntha ⓘ |
| spouseOfNobleHouse | Amal dynasty ⓘ |
| successor | Ildibad ⓘ |
| surrenderedTo | Belisarius ⓘ |
| takenTo |
Constantinople (probable)
ⓘ
surface form:
Constantinople
|
| title | Rex Gothorum ⓘ |
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: Witiges Description of subject: Witiges was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths best known for leading the Gothic resistance against the Eastern Roman Empire during the Gothic War in Italy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.