Old Latin
E90207
Old Latin is the early form of the Latin language used in ancient Rome before the Classical period, preserved in archaic inscriptions and early literary texts.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Latin canonical | 6 |
| Early Latin | 1 |
| Old Latin period | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T700250 — 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: Old Latin Context triple: [Sermo Vulgaris, developedFrom, Old Latin]
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A.
Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin was the everyday, non-standard form of Latin spoken by common people in the Roman Empire, from which the Romance languages later evolved.
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B.
Latin
Latin is an ancient Italic language of the Roman Empire that profoundly shaped the vocabulary, grammar, and development of many European languages and scholarly traditions.
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C.
Ecclesiastical Latin
Ecclesiastical Latin is the form of the Latin language traditionally used by the Roman Catholic Church in its liturgy, official documents, and theological writings.
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D.
Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin is the form of the Latin language used in Europe roughly from the 5th to the 15th century, serving as the primary written and scholarly language of the medieval Christian world.
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E.
Etruscan language
The Etruscan language was an ancient non-Indo-European language spoken by the Etruscan civilization in central Italy, known primarily from inscriptions and having a significant influence on early Roman culture and Latin.
- 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: Old Latin Target entity description: Old Latin is the early form of the Latin language used in ancient Rome before the Classical period, preserved in archaic inscriptions and early literary texts.
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A.
Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin was the everyday, non-standard form of Latin spoken by common people in the Roman Empire, from which the Romance languages later evolved.
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B.
Latin
Latin is an ancient Italic language of the Roman Empire that profoundly shaped the vocabulary, grammar, and development of many European languages and scholarly traditions.
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C.
Ecclesiastical Latin
Ecclesiastical Latin is the form of the Latin language traditionally used by the Roman Catholic Church in its liturgy, official documents, and theological writings.
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D.
Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin is the form of the Latin language used in Europe roughly from the 5th to the 15th century, serving as the primary written and scholarly language of the medieval Christian world.
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E.
Etruscan language
The Etruscan language was an ancient non-Indo-European language spoken by the Etruscan civilization in central Italy, known primarily from inscriptions and having a significant influence on early Roman culture and Latin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient language variety
ⓘ
form of Latin ⓘ historical language stage ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Archaic Latin
ⓘ
Old Latin ⓘ
surface form:
Early Latin
|
| derivedFrom | Etruscan alphabet ⓘ |
| followedBy | Classical Latin ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
different case endings compared to Classical Latin
ⓘ
different verb forms compared to Classical Latin ⓘ more conservative Indo-European features ⓘ morphological differences from Classical Latin ⓘ orthographic variation ⓘ phonological differences from Classical Latin ⓘ use of -d in ablative singular endings ⓘ |
| hasISOCode | none ⓘ |
| influenced |
Classical Latin
ⓘ
Vulgar Latin ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Italic ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European
|
| notableInscription |
Duenos inscription
ⓘ
Forum inscription of the Scipios ⓘ Lapis Niger inscription ⓘ Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus ⓘ |
| notableText |
early fragments of Ennius
ⓘ
early fragments of Livius Andronicus ⓘ early fragments of Naevius ⓘ early fragments of Plautus ⓘ |
| partOf |
Latin
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin language
|
| precededBy | Proto-Italic ⓘ |
| preservedIn |
archaic inscriptions
ⓘ
early literary texts ⓘ funerary inscriptions ⓘ legal inscriptions ⓘ religious inscriptions ⓘ |
| region | Italian Peninsula ⓘ |
| status | extinct ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
classical philology
ⓘ
epigraphy ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Italic languages ⓘ |
| timePeriod | approximately 6th century BC to 1st century BC ⓘ |
| usedBy | Romans ⓘ |
| usedFor |
legal texts
ⓘ
public inscriptions ⓘ religious formulae ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Latium
ⓘ
ancient Rome ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Paleo-Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Latin alphabet
early Latin script ⓘ |
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: Old Latin Description of subject: Old Latin is the early form of the Latin language used in ancient Rome before the Classical period, preserved in archaic inscriptions and early literary texts.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Early Latin
this entity surface form:
Old Latin period