Alypia
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Alypia was a late Roman noblewoman, best known as the daughter of the Western Roman emperor Anthemius and wife of the powerful general Ricimer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alypia canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3403035 — 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: Alypia Context triple: [Anthemius, child, Alypia]
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A.
Lychnidus
Lychnidus was an ancient town in the Balkans, near Lake Ohrid, that served as an important stop along the Roman Via Egnatia trade and military route.
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B.
Marpessa
Marpessa is a figure in Greek mythology known as a mortal woman whose beauty led to a famous love contest between the god Apollo and the hero Idas.
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C.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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D.
Arethusa
Arethusa is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with a blissful western garden and its golden apples.
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E.
Arethusa
Arethusa is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for her transformation into a freshwater spring to escape the river god Alpheus.
- 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: Alypia Target entity description: Alypia was a late Roman noblewoman, best known as the daughter of the Western Roman emperor Anthemius and wife of the powerful general Ricimer.
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A.
Lychnidus
Lychnidus was an ancient town in the Balkans, near Lake Ohrid, that served as an important stop along the Roman Via Egnatia trade and military route.
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B.
Marpessa
Marpessa is a figure in Greek mythology known as a mortal woman whose beauty led to a famous love contest between the god Apollo and the hero Idas.
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C.
Hyas
Hyas is a figure in Greek mythology, often associated with the Hyades as their brother and linked to myths explaining the origin of certain constellations or rain-bringing stars.
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D.
Arethusa
Arethusa is one of the Hesperides, the nymphs of Greek mythology associated with a blissful western garden and its golden apples.
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E.
Arethusa
Arethusa is a nymph from Greek mythology best known for her transformation into a freshwater spring to escape the river god Alpheus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman noblewoman
ⓘ
late Roman aristocrat ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| family |
House of Anthemius
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Theodosian dynasty ⓘ |
| father | Anthemius ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation | Western Roman emperor ⓘ |
| fatherReign | 467–472 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| historicalContext | final years of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| historicity | attested but sparsely documented ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| marriageDate | circa 467 ⓘ |
| marriagePurpose | to strengthen alliance between Anthemius and Ricimer ⓘ |
| mother | Marcia Euphemia ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being daughter of Western Roman emperor Anthemius
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being wife of the powerful general Ricimer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | empress consort-designate of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| region | Italy ⓘ |
| relative |
Alypius
ⓘ
surface form:
Alypius (possible sibling)
Anthemiolus ⓘ Marcianus ⓘ Anthemius ⓘ
surface form:
Procopius Anthemius
Romulus (son of Anthemius) ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Ravenna
ⓘ
Rome ⓘ |
| sourceMention | late antique historians ⓘ |
| spouse | Ricimer ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire
ⓘ
magister militum ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 5th century ⓘ |
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: Alypia Description of subject: Alypia was a late Roman noblewoman, best known as the daughter of the Western Roman emperor Anthemius and wife of the powerful general Ricimer.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.