principia
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Principia was the central headquarters building in a Roman fort, typically housing administrative offices, a shrine to the standards, and spaces for official gatherings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| principia canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8312114 — 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: principia Context triple: [Isca Silurum, hasFeature, principia]
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A.
“Principia”
“Principia” is a large-scale public art installation located at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.
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B.
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is Isaac Newton’s foundational work that formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, becoming a cornerstone of classical physics and the Scientific Revolution.
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C.
On First Principles
On First Principles is a foundational early Christian theological treatise by Origen that systematically explores doctrines such as God, creation, free will, and salvation.
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D.
Commentary on Newton's Principia
Commentary on Newton's Principia is Émilie du Châtelet’s influential French translation and elucidation of Isaac Newton’s Principia, which helped popularize and clarify Newtonian physics in the 18th century.
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E.
La Scienza Nuova
La Scienza Nuova is Giambattista Vico’s seminal philosophical treatise that proposes a cyclical theory of history and lays the foundations for modern philosophy of history and cultural anthropology.
- 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: principia Target entity description: Principia was the central headquarters building in a Roman fort, typically housing administrative offices, a shrine to the standards, and spaces for official gatherings.
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A.
“Principia”
“Principia” is a large-scale public art installation located at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.
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B.
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is Isaac Newton’s foundational work that formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, becoming a cornerstone of classical physics and the Scientific Revolution.
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C.
On First Principles
On First Principles is a foundational early Christian theological treatise by Origen that systematically explores doctrines such as God, creation, free will, and salvation.
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D.
Commentary on Newton's Principia
Commentary on Newton's Principia is Émilie du Châtelet’s influential French translation and elucidation of Isaac Newton’s Principia, which helped popularize and clarify Newtonian physics in the 18th century.
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E.
La Scienza Nuova
La Scienza Nuova is Giambattista Vico’s seminal philosophical treatise that proposes a cyclical theory of history and lays the foundations for modern philosophy of history and cultural anthropology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman military building
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headquarters building ⓘ |
| architecturalFeature |
central shrine room
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internal courtyard ⓘ rear range of rooms ⓘ rectangular plan ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roman army
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman military administration ⓘ |
| centralRoleIn |
command and control of the fort
ⓘ
daily life of a Roman garrison ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from Latin "principium" meaning beginning or headquarters ⓘ |
| evidenceFrom |
Roman military manuals and descriptions
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archaeological excavations at Roman forts ⓘ |
| foundIn |
auxiliary forts
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legionary fortresses ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
administrative center
ⓘ
central headquarters of a Roman fort ⓘ ceremonial center ⓘ |
| hasPart |
administrative offices
ⓘ
aedes ⓘ basilica-like hall ⓘ courtyard ⓘ shrine to the standards ⓘ spaces for official gatherings ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedAt | center of a Roman fort ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Roman castrum
ⓘ
praetorium ⓘ |
| typicalPeriod |
Roman Empire
NERFINISHED
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Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
financial administration
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judicial proceedings ⓘ military assemblies ⓘ record keeping ⓘ storage and veneration of legionary standards ⓘ |
| usedIn | Roman fort ⓘ |
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: principia Description of subject: Principia was the central headquarters building in a Roman fort, typically housing administrative offices, a shrine to the standards, and spaces for official gatherings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.