Roman Ermine Street
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Roman Ermine Street was a major Roman road in Britain that linked London to Lincoln and York, serving as a key route for military movement and trade.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ermine Street | 3 |
| Roman Ermine Street canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3966277 — 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: Roman Ermine Street Context triple: [Newport Arch, locatedOnRoute, Roman Ermine Street]
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London–Chichester Roman road
The London–Chichester Roman road, also known as Stane Street, is an ancient Roman route in southern England that historically linked Londinium (London) with the important Roman town of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester).
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B.
Fosse Way
Fosse Way is an ancient Roman road in Britain that ran diagonally across the country, linking Exeter in the southwest to Lincoln in the northeast.
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C.
Regio VII Via Lata
Regio VII Via Lata was one of the 14 administrative regions of ancient Rome, encompassing the northern stretch of the Via Lata (the urban section of the Via Flaminia) and its surrounding urban area.
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Herodian street
Herodian street is an ancient paved thoroughfare in Jerusalem dating to the time of King Herod, notable for its monumental construction and role as a main processional route near the Second Temple.
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Stane Street
Stane Street is an ancient Roman road in England that historically connected London to Chichester and served as a major route in Roman Britain.
- 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: Roman Ermine Street Target entity description: Roman Ermine Street was a major Roman road in Britain that linked London to Lincoln and York, serving as a key route for military movement and trade.
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A.
London–Chichester Roman road
The London–Chichester Roman road, also known as Stane Street, is an ancient Roman route in southern England that historically linked Londinium (London) with the important Roman town of Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester).
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B.
Fosse Way
Fosse Way is an ancient Roman road in Britain that ran diagonally across the country, linking Exeter in the southwest to Lincoln in the northeast.
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C.
Regio VII Via Lata
Regio VII Via Lata was one of the 14 administrative regions of ancient Rome, encompassing the northern stretch of the Via Lata (the urban section of the Via Flaminia) and its surrounding urban area.
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D.
Herodian street
Herodian street is an ancient paved thoroughfare in Jerusalem dating to the time of King Herod, notable for its monumental construction and role as a main processional route near the Second Temple.
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E.
Stane Street
Stane Street is an ancient Roman road in England that historically connected London to Chichester and served as a major route in Roman Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Roman Ermine Street Description of subject: Roman Ermine Street was a major Roman road in Britain that linked London to Lincoln and York, serving as a key route for military movement and trade.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ermine Street
this entity surface form:
Ermine Street
subject surface form:
Lindum Colonia
this entity surface form:
Ermine Street