Troy, ancient city
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Troy was a legendary ancient city in Anatolia, best known as the setting of the Trojan War in Greek mythology and the focus of Homer's epic poem the Iliad.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ancient city of Troy | 2 |
| city of Troy | 2 |
| Troy (ancient city) | 1 |
| Troy, ancient city canonical | 1 |
| ancient Troy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4620005 — 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: Troy, ancient city Context triple: [Troy, Alabama, United States, namedAfter, Troy, ancient city]
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A.
Troja
Troja is a district in Prague known for hosting several academic and research facilities, including parts of Charles University’s Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.
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B.
Ilion
Ilion is a suburban municipality in the Athens metropolitan area of Greece, located within the West Athens regional unit.
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C.
Troy
Troy is a historic city in eastern New York State, known for its 19th-century architecture and role in the Industrial Revolution as a major manufacturing center.
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D.
Troy
Troy is a 2004 epic historical war film loosely based on Homer's Iliad, depicting the legendary conflict between the Greeks and Trojans.
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E.
Troy
Troy is a masculine given name of ancient origin, famously borne by former NFL quarterback Troy Aikman.
- 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: Troy, ancient city Target entity description: Troy was a legendary ancient city in Anatolia, best known as the setting of the Trojan War in Greek mythology and the focus of Homer's epic poem the Iliad.
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A.
Troja
Troja is a district in Prague known for hosting several academic and research facilities, including parts of Charles University’s Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.
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B.
Ilion
Ilion is a suburban municipality in the Athens metropolitan area of Greece, located within the West Athens regional unit.
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C.
Troy
Troy is a historic city in eastern New York State, known for its 19th-century architecture and role in the Industrial Revolution as a major manufacturing center.
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D.
Troy
Troy is a 2004 epic historical war film loosely based on Homer's Iliad, depicting the legendary conflict between the Greeks and Trojans.
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E.
Troy
Troy is a masculine given name of ancient origin, famously borne by former NFL quarterback Troy Aikman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ mythological location ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Aeneid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iliad NERFINISHED ⓘ Odyssey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedPeriod |
Bronze Age
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iron Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithMythologicalFigure |
Aeneas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hector NERFINISHED ⓘ King Priam NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Trojans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| besiegedBy | Achaeans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| besiegedForDuration | ten years (mythological tradition) ⓘ |
| culture |
Anatolian civilizations
ⓘ
Ancient Greek mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destroyedInMythBy | wooden horse stratagem ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Carl Blegen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heinrich Schliemann NERFINISHED ⓘ Manfred Korfmann NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilhelm Dörpfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSiteName | Hisarlik NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasModernNearbyCity | Çanakkale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMultipleSettlementLayers | true ⓘ |
| hasSettlementLayer |
Troy I
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Troy II NERFINISHED ⓘ Troy VI NERFINISHED ⓘ Troy VIIa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| identifiedWith | Hisarlik archaeological mound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Renaissance literature
ⓘ
Roman cultural identity ⓘ medieval European literature ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Homer’s Iliad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Homer’s Odyssey NERFINISHED ⓘ Trojan War NERFINISHED ⓘ association with Homeric epics ⓘ |
| languageContext | Greek literary tradition ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Anatolia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Asia Minor ⓘ northwestern Anatolia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Turkey ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Aegean Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dardanelles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Troad region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance | key site for study of Bronze Age Aegean-Anatolian interactions ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSite | true ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteSince | 1998 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Troy, ancient city Description of subject: Troy was a legendary ancient city in Anatolia, best known as the setting of the Trojan War in Greek mythology and the focus of Homer's epic poem the Iliad.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ancient city of Troy
this entity surface form:
Troy (ancient city)
this entity surface form:
ancient Troy
this entity surface form:
ancient city of Troy
this entity surface form:
city of Troy
subject surface form:
Paris (Orlando Bloom)
this entity surface form:
city of Troy