Frigidus River
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The Frigidus River is an ancient waterway in the eastern Alps, historically renowned as the site of a decisive battle between Roman imperial forces in 394 AD.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frigidus River canonical | 1 |
| Frigidus River valley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3247975 — 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: Frigidus River Context triple: [Battle of the Frigidus, location, Frigidus River]
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A.
Bogachiel River
The Bogachiel River is a major coastal river in Washington State that flows westward from the Olympic Mountains through temperate rainforests to the Pacific Ocean, known for its salmon and steelhead fisheries.
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B.
Seim River
The Seim River is a major tributary of the Desna River in Eastern Europe, flowing through parts of Russia and northern Ukraine.
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C.
Limmat River
The Limmat River is a major Swiss waterway that flows out of Lake Zurich and runs through the city of Zurich before joining the Aare River.
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D.
Alagnon River
The Alagnon River is a watercourse in south-central France that flows through the Massif Central before joining the Allier River.
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E.
Setun River
The Setun River is a small river in western Moscow, Russia, known as one of the city's few relatively natural waterways and a tributary of the Moskva River.
- 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: Frigidus River Target entity description: The Frigidus River is an ancient waterway in the eastern Alps, historically renowned as the site of a decisive battle between Roman imperial forces in 394 AD.
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A.
Bogachiel River
The Bogachiel River is a major coastal river in Washington State that flows westward from the Olympic Mountains through temperate rainforests to the Pacific Ocean, known for its salmon and steelhead fisheries.
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B.
Seim River
The Seim River is a major tributary of the Desna River in Eastern Europe, flowing through parts of Russia and northern Ukraine.
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C.
Limmat River
The Limmat River is a major Swiss waterway that flows out of Lake Zurich and runs through the city of Zurich before joining the Aare River.
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D.
Alagnon River
The Alagnon River is a watercourse in south-central France that flows through the Massif Central before joining the Allier River.
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E.
Setun River
The Setun River is a small river in western Moscow, Russia, known as one of the city's few relatively natural waterways and a tributary of the Moskva River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient river
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Arbogast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christianization of the Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Eugenius NERFINISHED ⓘ Theodosius I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climateCharacteristic | cold waters ⓘ |
| country | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| era | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | Vipava Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalNameOf | Vipava River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hydrologicalSystem | Adriatic Sea drainage basin ⓘ |
| knownFor | Battle of the Frigidus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illyricum NERFINISHED ⓘ eastern Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ modern Slovenia ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | late Roman historical sources ⓘ |
| modernCountry | Slovenia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mouthLocatedIn | Soča River basin ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | Latin frigidus meaning cold ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman Empire frontier regions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Noricum-Illyricum border area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relevance | turning point in Roman religious and political history ⓘ |
| significantEvent | decisive battle between Roman imperial forces ⓘ |
| significantEventDate | 394 AD ⓘ |
| siteOf | Battle of the Frigidus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strategicImportance | military route through eastern Alps ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfProminence | 4th century AD ⓘ |
| usedAs | battlefield landmark ⓘ |
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: Frigidus River Description of subject: The Frigidus River is an ancient waterway in the eastern Alps, historically renowned as the site of a decisive battle between Roman imperial forces in 394 AD.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle of the Frigidus
this entity surface form:
Frigidus River valley