Κόμανα Ποντική (Greek)
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Κόμανα Ποντική is the Greek name for Comana Pontica, an ancient temple city of Pontus in Asia Minor renowned for its sanctuary of the goddess Ma and its role as a major religious and commercial center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Κόμανα Ποντική (Greek) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3937867 — 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: Κόμανα Ποντική (Greek) Context triple: [Comana Pontica, knownAs, Κόμανα Ποντική (Greek)]
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A.
Pelasgiotis
Pelasgiotis was an ancient district of Thessaly in Greece, known for its fertile plains and strategic location in the northeastern part of the region.
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B.
Polyaigos
Polyaigos is an uninhabited Greek island in the Aegean Sea, known for its pristine beaches, clear turquoise waters, and important wildlife habitats, especially for Mediterranean monk seals.
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C.
Tzoumerka
Tzoumerka is a mountainous region in the Epirus area of northwestern Greece, known for its rugged peaks, traditional stone villages, and scenic gorges.
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D.
Arvanitika
Arvanitika is a variety of Albanian traditionally spoken by the Arvanite communities in Greece, closely related to the Tosk dialect group.
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E.
Koutsovlachs
Koutsovlachs is a Greek-derived exonym historically used—often with a pejorative nuance—for the Aromanian (Vlach) communities of the Balkans.
- 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: Κόμανα Ποντική (Greek) Target entity description: Κόμανα Ποντική is the Greek name for Comana Pontica, an ancient temple city of Pontus in Asia Minor renowned for its sanctuary of the goddess Ma and its role as a major religious and commercial center.
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A.
Pelasgiotis
Pelasgiotis was an ancient district of Thessaly in Greece, known for its fertile plains and strategic location in the northeastern part of the region.
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B.
Polyaigos
Polyaigos is an uninhabited Greek island in the Aegean Sea, known for its pristine beaches, clear turquoise waters, and important wildlife habitats, especially for Mediterranean monk seals.
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C.
Tzoumerka
Tzoumerka is a mountainous region in the Epirus area of northwestern Greece, known for its rugged peaks, traditional stone villages, and scenic gorges.
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D.
Arvanitika
Arvanitika is a variety of Albanian traditionally spoken by the Arvanite communities in Greece, closely related to the Tosk dialect group.
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E.
Koutsovlachs
Koutsovlachs is a Greek-derived exonym historically used—often with a pejorative nuance—for the Aromanian (Vlach) communities of the Balkans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
αρχαία πόλη
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αρχαιολογικός τόπος ⓘ ιερή πόλη ⓘ ναόπολη ⓘ |
| associatedDeity |
Artemis
ⓘ
surface form:
Άρτεμις (συγκριτική ταύτιση)
θεά Μα ⓘ |
| associatedWith | ιερή πορνεία (κατά ορισμένες αρχαίες πηγές) ⓘ |
| culturalTradition |
ανατολικές λατρείες
ⓘ
ελληνιστική θρησκευτική παράδοση ⓘ |
| differentiatedBy | γεωγραφική θέση στον Πόντο ⓘ |
| economicFunction |
αγορά και διαμετακομιστικό κέντρο
ⓘ
εμπορικός σταθμός ⓘ |
| flourishedInPeriod |
ελληνιστική εποχή
ⓘ
ρωμαϊκή εποχή ⓘ |
| governedBy | αρχιερέας της θεάς Μα ⓘ |
| hasFestival | μεγάλες εορτές προς τιμήν της θεάς Μα ⓘ |
| hasGreekName | Κόμανα Ποντική ⓘ |
| hasLatinName | Comana Pontica ⓘ |
| hasModernArchaeologicalInterest | σημαντικός αρχαιολογικός χώρος για τη μελέτη του Πόντου ⓘ |
| hasNameInEnglish | Comana Pontica ⓘ |
| hasPriesthood | μεγάλος αριθμός ιερέων και ιερειών ⓘ |
| hasSanctuaryOf |
Ma (θεότητα)
ⓘ
θεά Μα ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfSettlement | ναόπολη αφιερωμένη σε θεότητα ⓘ |
| integratedInto |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Ρωμαϊκή Αυτοκρατορία
|
| knownFor |
εμπορικό κέντρο
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θρησκευτικό κέντρο ⓘ μεγάλο ιερό της θεάς Μα ⓘ πλούσιο ιερατείο ⓘ τελετουργικές λατρείες ⓘ |
| languageUsedHistorically |
ελληνική
ⓘ
τοπικές ανατολιακές γλώσσες ⓘ |
| linkedToTradeRoute | εσωτερικές οδικές αρτηρίες της Μικράς Ασίας ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDayCountry |
Turkey
ⓘ
surface form:
Τουρκία
|
| locatedInRegion |
Μικρά Ασία
ⓘ
Πόντος ⓘ |
| locatedNearRiver |
Yeşilırmak River
ⓘ
surface form:
Yeşilırmak
Ίρις ποταμός ⓘ |
| mentionedBy |
Pliny the Younger
ⓘ
surface form:
Πλίνιος ο Πρεσβύτερος
Στράβων ⓘ |
| partOfAncientKingdom |
Kingdom of the Bosporus
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surface form:
Βασίλειο του Πόντου
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| politicalStatus | ιερή πόλη με ιεροκρατική διοίκηση ⓘ |
| religiousFunction |
κέντρο λατρείας της θεάς Μα
ⓘ
μεγάλο περιφερειακό ιερό ⓘ |
| religiousRole | περιφερειακό κέντρο λατρείας στη βόρεια Μικρά Ασία ⓘ |
| sharesNameWith | Κόμανα Καππαδοκίας ⓘ |
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: Κόμανα Ποντική (Greek) Description of subject: Κόμανα Ποντική is the Greek name for Comana Pontica, an ancient temple city of Pontus in Asia Minor renowned for its sanctuary of the goddess Ma and its role as a major religious and commercial center.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.