Ianuarius
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Ianuarius is the Latin name for January, the first month of the ancient Roman calendar, traditionally associated with the god Janus and the beginning of the new year.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ianuarius canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5534071 — 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: Ianuarius Context triple: [Roman calendar, includedMonth, Ianuarius]
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A.
Kalends
Kalends were the first days of each month in the ancient Roman calendar, from which other dates in that month were reckoned.
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B.
Tamiathis
Tamiathis is the ancient name of the Egyptian port city now known as Damietta, historically significant for its strategic location on the Nile Delta and the Mediterranean.
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C.
Hilaeira
Hilaeira is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the daughters of Leucippus who, along with her sister Phoebe, was abducted by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
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D.
Anio
Anio is the Latin name for the Aniene, a river in central Italy that flows through the Lazio region and joins the Tiber near Rome.
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E.
Evenus
Evenus is a figure in Greek mythology, a king of Aetolia and son of the war god Ares, best known as the father of Marpessa.
- 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: Ianuarius Target entity description: Ianuarius is the Latin name for January, the first month of the ancient Roman calendar, traditionally associated with the god Janus and the beginning of the new year.
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A.
Kalends
Kalends were the first days of each month in the ancient Roman calendar, from which other dates in that month were reckoned.
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B.
Tamiathis
Tamiathis is the ancient name of the Egyptian port city now known as Damietta, historically significant for its strategic location on the Nile Delta and the Mediterranean.
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C.
Hilaeira
Hilaeira is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the daughters of Leucippus who, along with her sister Phoebe, was abducted by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
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D.
Anio
Anio is the Latin name for the Aniene, a river in central Italy that flows through the Lazio region and joins the Tiber near Rome.
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E.
Evenus
Evenus is a figure in Greek mythology, a king of Aetolia and son of the war god Ares, best known as the father of Marpessa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
month
ⓘ
time period ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
beginning
ⓘ
doorways ⓘ new year ⓘ thresholds ⓘ transitions ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeity | Janus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| correspondsToNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| etymologyFrom | Janus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | December NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviation |
Ian.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jan. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Months in the Gregorian calendar
ⓘ
Months in the Julian calendar ⓘ Months in the Roman calendar ⓘ Units of time ⓘ |
| hasEnglishName | January ⓘ |
| hasFunctionInCalendar | start of the civil year ⓘ |
| hasLatinName | Ianuarius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPatronDeity | Janus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSeasonInNorthernHemisphere | winter ⓘ |
| hasSeasonInSouthernHemisphere | summer ⓘ |
| hasTypicalGregorianEndDate | January 31 ⓘ |
| hasTypicalGregorianStartDate | January 1 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Gregorian calendar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Julian calendar NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman calendar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInYear | 1 ⓘ |
| precedes | February ⓘ |
| roleInRomanReligion | month sacred to Janus ⓘ |
| typicalLengthInGregorianCalendar | 31 days ⓘ |
| typicalLengthInJulianCalendar | 31 days ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Ecclesiastical Latin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Latin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ianuarius Description of subject: Ianuarius is the Latin name for January, the first month of the ancient Roman calendar, traditionally associated with the god Janus and the beginning of the new year.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.