Idus
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Idus is a historical name believed to be associated with the Idus River, likely reflecting an ancient or regional linguistic origin tied to that waterway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Idus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11357889 — 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: Idus Context triple: [Idus River (historical), possibleEtymology, Idus]
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A.
Idus Martiae
Idus Martiae is the Latin term for the Ides of March, historically renowned as the date of Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 BC.
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B.
Mydaus
Mydaus is a small genus of skunk-like mammals known as stink badgers, native to Southeast Asia and characterized by their powerful defensive scent glands.
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C.
Hilaeira
Hilaeira is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the daughters of Leucippus who, along with her sister Phoebe, was abducted by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
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D.
Anxur
Anxur was an important ancient Volscian city in central Italy, later known as Tarracina under Roman rule.
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E.
Tammuz
Tammuz is the fourth month of the Hebrew religious calendar, traditionally falling in early summer and associated with historical fasts and mourning in Jewish tradition.
- 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: Idus Target entity description: Idus is a historical name believed to be associated with the Idus River, likely reflecting an ancient or regional linguistic origin tied to that waterway.
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A.
Idus Martiae
Idus Martiae is the Latin term for the Ides of March, historically renowned as the date of Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 BC.
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B.
Mydaus
Mydaus is a small genus of skunk-like mammals known as stink badgers, native to Southeast Asia and characterized by their powerful defensive scent glands.
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C.
Hilaeira
Hilaeira is a figure in Greek mythology, one of the daughters of Leucippus who, along with her sister Phoebe, was abducted by the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.
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D.
Anxur
Anxur was an important ancient Volscian city in central Italy, later known as Tarracina under Roman rule.
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E.
Tammuz
Tammuz is a Mesopotamian god associated with shepherds, fertility, and seasonal cycles, whose death and rebirth are central themes in ancient Near Eastern religion and myth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical name
ⓘ
toponym ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Idus River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| etymologicallyLinkedTo | Idus River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticOrigin | ancient regional language ⓘ |
| hasNameCategory | river name ⓘ |
| historicalUsage | name for a waterway ⓘ |
| nameType | hydronym ⓘ |
| refersTo | Idus River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInContextOf | geographical naming ⓘ |
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: Idus Description of subject: Idus is a historical name believed to be associated with the Idus River, likely reflecting an ancient or regional linguistic origin tied to that waterway.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.