Bulla Regia
E775045
Bulla Regia is an ancient Roman city in modern-day Tunisia, renowned for its unique semi-subterranean houses designed to cope with the region’s extreme climate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bulla Regia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9054446 — 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: Bulla Regia Context triple: [Zeugitana, majorCity, Bulla Regia]
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A.
Bulla Cruciatae
Bulla Cruciatae is a papal bull issued by Pope Paul V that renewed and regulated the granting of indulgences and financial contributions associated with crusading efforts against non-Christian powers.
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B.
Golden Bull of 1222
The Golden Bull of 1222 was a landmark Hungarian royal charter issued by King Andrew II that limited monarchical power and guaranteed key rights and privileges to the kingdom’s nobility.
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C.
Opus Francigenum
Opus Francigenum is the Latin term historically used to refer to what is now known as Gothic architecture, a medieval European style characterized by pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses.
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D.
Salus Populi Romani
Salus Populi Romani is a revered Byzantine-style icon of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child housed in Rome’s Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and traditionally associated with the protection of the Roman people.
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E.
Ad edictum
Ad edictum is a major legal commentary by the Roman jurist Ulpian on the praetorian edict, influential in the development of Roman law.
- 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: Bulla Regia Target entity description: Bulla Regia is an ancient Roman city in modern-day Tunisia, renowned for its unique semi-subterranean houses designed to cope with the region’s extreme climate.
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A.
Bulla Cruciatae
Bulla Cruciatae is a papal bull issued by Pope Paul V that renewed and regulated the granting of indulgences and financial contributions associated with crusading efforts against non-Christian powers.
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B.
Golden Bull of 1222
The Golden Bull of 1222 was a landmark Hungarian royal charter issued by King Andrew II that limited monarchical power and guaranteed key rights and privileges to the kingdom’s nobility.
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C.
Opus Francigenum
Opus Francigenum is the Latin term historically used to refer to what is now known as Gothic architecture, a medieval European style characterized by pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses.
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D.
Salus Populi Romani
Salus Populi Romani is a revered Byzantine-style icon of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child housed in Rome’s Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and traditionally associated with the protection of the Roman people.
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E.
Ad edictum
Ad edictum is a major legal commentary by the Roman jurist Ulpian on the praetorian edict, influential in the development of Roman law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman city
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archaeological site ⓘ |
| country | Tunisia ⓘ |
| designedToCopeWith | extreme summer heat ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalExcavationsBy | French archaeologists ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalExcavationsStart | early 20th century ⓘ |
| hasBuildingMaterial | stone ⓘ |
| hasClimateAdaptation | semi-subterranean domestic architecture ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPeriod |
Byzantine period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Punic period ⓘ Roman period ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivityHistorical |
agriculture
ⓘ
olive cultivation ⓘ trade ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Roman baths
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Roman theatre ⓘ cisterns ⓘ forum ⓘ mosaics ⓘ semi-subterranean houses ⓘ temples ⓘ underground villas ⓘ |
| hasLanguageHistorical |
Latin
ⓘ
Punic ⓘ |
| hasNearbyModernSettlement |
Bulla Regia village
ⓘ
Hammam Darradji NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPreservationStatus | ruins ⓘ |
| hasReligionHistorical |
Christianity
NERFINISHED
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Roman paganism ⓘ |
| hasRoadConnection | Roman road network in North Africa ⓘ |
| hasStructureType | domus ⓘ |
| hasUNESCOStatus | on UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List ⓘ |
| isManagedBy | National Heritage Institute of Tunisia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOpenTo | visitors ⓘ |
| knownFor |
two-storey houses with underground floors
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unique domestic architecture in Roman North Africa ⓘ well-preserved Roman mosaics ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jendouba Governorate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
northwestern Tunisia ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Numidia
NERFINISHED
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ancient Africa Proconsularis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Jendouba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman province of Africa Proconsularis NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman province of Numidia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasColoniaUnder | Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasMunicipiumUnder | Roman Empire 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: Bulla Regia Description of subject: Bulla Regia is an ancient Roman city in modern-day Tunisia, renowned for its unique semi-subterranean houses designed to cope with the region’s extreme climate.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.