Regio VIII Aemilia
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Regio VIII Aemilia was an administrative region of Roman Italy centered on the Via Aemilia, encompassing important cities such as Mutina (modern Modena) and Bononia (Bologna).
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Regio VIII Aemilia canonical | 2 |
| Regio VIII | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8915896 — 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: Regio VIII Aemilia Context triple: [Mutina, partOf, Regio VIII Aemilia]
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A.
Regio IV Samnium
Regio IV Samnium was a Roman imperial administrative region in central-southern Italy that encompassed the territory of the ancient Samnite peoples and neighboring communities.
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B.
Regio XIII Aventinus
Regio XIII Aventinus was one of the 14 administrative regions of ancient Rome, encompassing the Aventine Hill and its surrounding areas.
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C.
Regio XI
Regio XI was one of the administrative regions of ancient Rome, centered around the Circus Maximus and encompassing key entertainment and religious sites.
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D.
Regio III Lucania et Bruttii
Regio III Lucania et Bruttii was a Roman imperial administrative region in southern Italy that encompassed the historical areas of Lucania and Bruttium.
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E.
Norici
Norici were an ancient Alpine Celtic people known for inhabiting the region of Noricum, corresponding largely to modern Austria and parts of Slovenia, and for their interactions with the Roman Empire.
- 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: Regio VIII Aemilia Target entity description: Regio VIII Aemilia was an administrative region of Roman Italy centered on the Via Aemilia, encompassing important cities such as Mutina (modern Modena) and Bononia (Bologna).
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A.
Regio IV Samnium
Regio IV Samnium was a Roman imperial administrative region in central-southern Italy that encompassed the territory of the ancient Samnite peoples and neighboring communities.
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B.
Regio XIII Aventinus
Regio XIII Aventinus was one of the 14 administrative regions of ancient Rome, encompassing the Aventine Hill and its surrounding areas.
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C.
Regio XI
Regio XI was one of the administrative regions of ancient Rome, centered around the Circus Maximus and encompassing key entertainment and religious sites.
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D.
Regio III Lucania et Bruttii
Regio III Lucania et Bruttii was a Roman imperial administrative region in southern Italy that encompassed the historical areas of Lucania and Bruttium.
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E.
Norici
Norici were an ancient Alpine Celtic people known for inhabiting the region of Noricum, corresponding largely to modern Austria and parts of Slovenia, and for their interactions with the Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Augustan region of Italy
ⓘ
administrative region of Roman Italy ⓘ |
| administrativeLevel | subdivision of Italy under Augustus ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Regio IV Samnium
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Regio IX Liguria NERFINISHED ⓘ Regio V Picenum NERFINISHED ⓘ Regio VII Etruria NERFINISHED ⓘ Regio X Venetia et Histria NERFINISHED ⓘ Regio XI Transpadana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Bononia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centeredOn | Via Aemilia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Ariminum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bononia NERFINISHED ⓘ Brixellum NERFINISHED ⓘ Castrum Novum (Regio VIII) NERFINISHED ⓘ Clastidium NERFINISHED ⓘ Claterna NERFINISHED ⓘ Faventia NERFINISHED ⓘ Fidentia NERFINISHED ⓘ Forum Livii NERFINISHED ⓘ Forum Popilii NERFINISHED ⓘ Luceria (Regio VIII) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mutina NERFINISHED ⓘ Parma NERFINISHED ⓘ Placentia NERFINISHED ⓘ Regium Lepidi NERFINISHED ⓘ Rubiera (ancient station on Via Aemilia) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tannetum NERFINISHED ⓘ Veleia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| establishedUnder | Augustus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUrbanCenters |
Roman colonies
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municipia ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Classical antiquity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFromSource | Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay |
Emilia-Romagna
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lombardy NERFINISHED ⓘ Marche NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorRoad | Via Aemilia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| modernEquivalent | Emilia region of Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Via Aemilia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Italia (Roman Empire) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Roman Imperial period ⓘ |
| usedFor |
census administration
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legal jurisdiction ⓘ taxation ⓘ |
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: Regio VIII Aemilia Description of subject: Regio VIII Aemilia was an administrative region of Roman Italy centered on the Via Aemilia, encompassing important cities such as Mutina (modern Modena) and Bononia (Bologna).
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Regio VIII