Herdonia
E831884
Herdonia was an ancient city in Apulia, southern Italy, notable as the site of major battles during the Second Punic War.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9956385 — 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: Herdonia Context triple: [Battle of Herdonia (212 BC), location, Herdonia]
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Oechalia
Oechalia is a city in Greek mythology traditionally associated with King Eurytus and the heroine Iole, and is famed as the place sacked by Heracles.
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Rhodeus
Rhodeus is a genus of small freshwater bitterling fishes known for their unique reproductive behavior of depositing eggs in live freshwater mussels.
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C.
Yathella
Yathella is a rural locality within the Junee Shire local government area in New South Wales, Australia.
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D.
Alphitonia
Alphitonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs, commonly known as ash or soap trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific and Asia.
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Leionema
Leionema is a genus of flowering shrubs native to Australia, known for their aromatic foliage and clusters of small, star-shaped flowers, and classified within the citrus family Rutaceae.
- 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: Herdonia Target entity description: Herdonia was an ancient city in Apulia, southern Italy, notable as the site of major battles during the Second Punic War.
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A.
Oechalia
Oechalia is a city in Greek mythology traditionally associated with King Eurytus and the heroine Iole, and is famed as the place sacked by Heracles.
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B.
Rhodeus
Rhodeus is a genus of small freshwater bitterling fishes known for their unique reproductive behavior of depositing eggs in live freshwater mussels.
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C.
Yathella
Yathella is a rural locality within the Junee Shire local government area in New South Wales, Australia.
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D.
Alphitonia
Alphitonia is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs, commonly known as ash or soap trees, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Pacific and Asia.
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E.
Leionema
Leionema is a genus of flowering shrubs native to Australia, known for their aromatic foliage and clusters of small, star-shaped flowers, and classified within the citrus family Rutaceae.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| archaeologicalExcavationsSince | 20th century ⓘ |
| conflict | Second Punic War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedBy | Roman road ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| culture |
Italic
ⓘ
Roman ⓘ |
| declinePeriod | Late Antiquity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
market town
ⓘ
road junction ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalFeature |
amphitheatre
ⓘ
basilica ⓘ city walls ⓘ forum ⓘ necropolis ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalPeriod |
Late Antique
ⓘ
Roman Imperial ⓘ Roman Republican ⓘ pre-Roman ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
Herdoniae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ordona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | archaeological heritage of Italy ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Classical Antiquity
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hellenistic period NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman period ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy | Daunians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Latin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oscan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Apulia
NERFINISHED
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Daunia NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Italy ⓘ |
| modernSiteNear | Ordona, Province of Foggia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyRiver | Carapelle River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opponentCommanderAtBattle |
Gaius Claudius Nero
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gnaeus Fulvius Flaccus NERFINISHED ⓘ Hannibal Barca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Magna Graecia region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentDayStatus | uninhabited archaeological area ⓘ |
| region | Province of Foggia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religionPracticed | Roman polytheism ⓘ |
| timeOfFlourishing |
Roman Imperial period
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Republican period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasSiteOf |
Battle of Herdonia (210 BC)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Battle of Herdonia (212 BC) 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: Herdonia Description of subject: Herdonia was an ancient city in Apulia, southern Italy, notable as the site of major battles during the Second Punic War.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Herdoniae