Philippi
E47686
Philippi was an ancient city in eastern Macedonia, notable in early Christianity as the site of one of the first European churches and a key location in the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Philippi canonical | 36 |
| forum of Philippi | 2 |
| Philippi (about 15 km) | 1 |
| ancient city of Philippi | 1 |
| city of Philippi | 1 |
| excavations at Philippi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T376610 — 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: Philippi Context triple: [Apostle Paul, imprisonedIn, Philippi]
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A.
Naissus
Naissus was an important ancient Roman city in the province of Moesia, located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia.
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B.
Smyrna
Smyrna was a major Aegean port city (modern-day İzmir in Turkey) that served as a key commercial and cultural hub in the Ottoman Empire.
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C.
Cyrene
Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
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D.
Pella, Greece
Pella, Greece is an ancient city in northern Greece that served as the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon and the birthplace of Alexander the Great.
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E.
Sidon
Sidon is an ancient Phoenician port city, located in present-day Lebanon, that was a major center of maritime trade and culture in the eastern Mediterranean.
- 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: Philippi Target entity description: Philippi was an ancient city in eastern Macedonia, notable in early Christianity as the site of one of the first European churches and a key location in the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul.
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A.
Naissus
Naissus was an important ancient Roman city in the province of Moesia, located at the site of modern-day Niš in Serbia.
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B.
Smyrna
Smyrna was a major Aegean port city (modern-day İzmir in Turkey) that served as a key commercial and cultural hub in the Ottoman Empire.
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C.
Cyrene
Cyrene is an ancient Greek and Roman city in eastern Libya renowned for its well-preserved ruins and historical significance as a major center of classical civilization.
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D.
Pella, Greece
Pella, Greece is an ancient city in northern Greece that served as the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon and the birthplace of Alexander the Great.
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E.
Sidon
Sidon is an ancient Phoenician port city, located in present-day Lebanon, that was a major center of maritime trade and culture in the eastern Mediterranean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Philippi Description of subject: Philippi was an ancient city in eastern Macedonia, notable in early Christianity as the site of one of the first European churches and a key location in the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
forum of Philippi
this entity surface form:
excavations at Philippi
this entity surface form:
Philippi (about 15 km)
subject surface form:
Theatre of Philippi
subject surface form:
Theatre of Philippi
this entity surface form:
forum of Philippi
subject surface form:
Theatre of Philippi
this entity surface form:
city of Philippi
this entity surface form:
ancient city of Philippi