Calleva Atrebatum
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Calleva Atrebatum was a major Iron Age and later Roman town in southern Britain, located at modern Silchester and serving as the civitas capital of the Atrebates tribe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Calleva Atrebatum canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11212170 — 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: Calleva Atrebatum Context triple: [Venta Belgarum, connectedTo, Calleva Atrebatum]
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A.
Ratae Corieltauvorum
Ratae Corieltauvorum was the Roman town and administrative center that later became the modern English city of Leicester.
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B.
Corinium Dobunnorum
Corinium Dobunnorum was a prominent Roman town in what is now Cirencester, England, serving as an important administrative and commercial center in Roman Britain.
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C.
Viroconium Cornoviorum
Viroconium Cornoviorum was a major Roman town in Roman Britain, located near modern Wroxeter in Shropshire and once one of the largest urban centres in the province.
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D.
Glevum
Glevum was the Roman-era name for the settlement that later became the English city of Gloucester, originally established as a military fort and later developed into a colonia.
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E.
Teanum Sidicinum
Teanum Sidicinum was an important ancient city in Campania, Italy, serving as the chief urban center of the Sidicini people and later becoming a notable Roman municipality.
- 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: Calleva Atrebatum Target entity description: Calleva Atrebatum was a major Iron Age and later Roman town in southern Britain, located at modern Silchester and serving as the civitas capital of the Atrebates tribe.
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A.
Ratae Corieltauvorum
Ratae Corieltauvorum was the Roman town and administrative center that later became the modern English city of Leicester.
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B.
Corinium Dobunnorum
Corinium Dobunnorum was a prominent Roman town in what is now Cirencester, England, serving as an important administrative and commercial center in Roman Britain.
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C.
Viroconium Cornoviorum
Viroconium Cornoviorum was a major Roman town in Roman Britain, located near modern Wroxeter in Shropshire and once one of the largest urban centres in the province.
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D.
Glevum
Glevum was the Roman-era name for the settlement that later became the English city of Gloucester, originally established as a military fort and later developed into a colonia.
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E.
Teanum Sidicinum
Teanum Sidicinum was an important ancient city in Campania, Italy, serving as the chief urban center of the Sidicini people and later becoming a notable Roman municipality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iron Age oppidum
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Roman town ⓘ civitas capital ⓘ |
| abandonedInPeriod | early post-Roman period ⓘ |
| associatedTribe | Atrebates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| civitasOf | Atrebates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedByRoad |
Roman road to Aquae Sulis (Bath)
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Roman road to Corinium Dobunnorum (Cirencester) ⓘ Roman road to Londinium ⓘ Roman road to Sorviodunum (Salisbury) ⓘ Roman road to Venta Belgarum (Winchester) ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| declinedInPeriod | 4th century AD ⓘ |
| excavatedBy | Reading University excavations ⓘ |
| flourishedInPeriod |
1st century AD
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2nd century AD ⓘ 3rd century AD ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSiteType | walled town ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalStatus |
extensively excavated site
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well-preserved Roman town plan ⓘ |
| hasEvidenceOf |
Roman temples
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administrative functions ⓘ commercial activity ⓘ domestic occupation ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
amphitheatre
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defensive walls ⓘ forum-basilica complex ⓘ inscribed buildings ⓘ public baths ⓘ rectangular street grid ⓘ town houses ⓘ |
| hasLatinName | Calleva Atrebatum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasModernSite |
Silchester Roman Town
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Silchester, Hampshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMonumentProtectionStatus | Scheduled Monument ⓘ |
| hasName |
Calleva
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Calleva Atrebatorum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyModernSettlement | Silchester village NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegion | South East England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligionInRomanPeriod | Roman polytheism GENERATED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Britannia
NERFINISHED
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Hampshire ⓘ Roman Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ Silchester NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Britain ⓘ |
| partOf | civitas Atrebatum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| preRomanInhabitation | Iron Age settlement ⓘ |
| servedAs | civitas capital of the Atrebates ⓘ |
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: Calleva Atrebatum Description of subject: Calleva Atrebatum was a major Iron Age and later Roman town in southern Britain, located at modern Silchester and serving as the civitas capital of the Atrebates tribe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Venta Belgarum