Common Era
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The Common Era (CE) is the widely used secular calendar era that counts years from the traditional date of the birth of Jesus, corresponding to the same years as AD in the Gregorian and Julian calendars.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anno Domini | 2 |
| Christian Era | 1 |
| Common Era canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T696634 — 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.
Target entity: Common Era Context triple: [Anno Mundi, comparedWith, Common Era]
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Late Antiquity
Late Antiquity was the transitional historical period from roughly the 3rd to the 8th century CE, marking the transformation of the Roman world into medieval Europe and the early Byzantine and Islamic civilizations.
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ERA
ERA is the commonly used acronym for the European Research Area, a policy framework aimed at creating a unified research and innovation space across Europe.
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Amoraic period
The Amoraic period was the era in Jewish history (roughly 3rd–5th centuries CE) during which rabbinic sages known as Amoraim developed and interpreted the Mishnah, producing the Talmud and shaping classical Rabbinic Judaism.
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Roman Antiquity
Roman Antiquity refers to the historical period of ancient Rome, spanning from the founding of the city through the Roman Republic and Empire until the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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Hellenistic period
The Hellenistic period was an era from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise of the Roman Empire, marked by the widespread diffusion and blending of Greek culture with those of Egypt, the Near East, and Central Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Common Era Target entity description: The Common Era (CE) is the widely used secular calendar era that counts years from the traditional date of the birth of Jesus, corresponding to the same years as AD in the Gregorian and Julian calendars.
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A.
Late Antiquity
Late Antiquity was the transitional historical period from roughly the 3rd to the 8th century CE, marking the transformation of the Roman world into medieval Europe and the early Byzantine and Islamic civilizations.
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B.
ERA
ERA is the commonly used acronym for the European Research Area, a policy framework aimed at creating a unified research and innovation space across Europe.
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C.
Amoraic period
The Amoraic period was the era in Jewish history (roughly 3rd–5th centuries CE) during which rabbinic sages known as Amoraim developed and interpreted the Mishnah, producing the Talmud and shaping classical Rabbinic Judaism.
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D.
Roman Antiquity
Roman Antiquity refers to the historical period of ancient Rome, spanning from the founding of the city through the Roman Republic and Empire until the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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E.
Hellenistic period
The Hellenistic period was an era from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise of the Roman Empire, marked by the widespread diffusion and blending of Greek culture with those of Egypt, the Near East, and Central Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
calendar era
ⓘ
chronological era ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CE ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Common Era
ⓘ
surface form:
Christian Era
Current Era ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| basedOn | Christian chronology ⓘ |
| classification | Western calendar system component ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
BCE
ⓘ
Before Common Era ⓘ |
| correspondsTo |
AD
ⓘ
Anno Domini era ⓘ |
| differsFromADIn | terminology only ⓘ |
| doesNotIncludeYear | year 0 ⓘ |
| firstYear | 1 CE ⓘ |
| followsYear | 1 BCE ⓘ |
| hasConceptualPrecursor | Anno Domini system ⓘ |
| hasOppositeTemporalDirectionTo | Before Common Era ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
proleptic Gregorian calendar
ⓘ
proleptic Julian calendar ⓘ |
| isSecularAlternativeTo |
AD
ⓘ
Common Era self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Anno Domini
|
| languageOfTerm | English ⓘ |
| notationStyle | year number followed by CE ⓘ |
| pairedWith | Before Common Era ⓘ |
| pairedWithAbbreviation | BCE ⓘ |
| promotedFor |
cultural inclusivity
ⓘ
religious neutrality ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
ⓘ
surface form:
Gregorian calendar reform
Julian calendar ⓘ
surface form:
Julian calendar reform
|
| replacedTermInSecularUsage |
AD
ⓘ
Anno Domini ⓘ |
| sharesYearNumberingWith | AD system ⓘ |
| timeSpan | years counted forward from 1 CE ⓘ |
| usedBy |
educational institutions
ⓘ
historians ⓘ international organizations ⓘ scientists ⓘ |
| usedFor |
chronological standardization
ⓘ
historical dating ⓘ |
| usedIn |
ISO 8601
ⓘ
surface form:
ISO 8601 date representations
|
| usedInCalendar |
Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
ⓘ
surface form:
Gregorian calendar
Julian calendar ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
academic writing
ⓘ
interfaith dialogue ⓘ secular publications ⓘ |
| yearNumberingStartsFrom | traditional date of the birth of Jesus ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Common Era Description of subject: The Common Era (CE) is the widely used secular calendar era that counts years from the traditional date of the birth of Jesus, corresponding to the same years as AD in the Gregorian and Julian calendars.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.