Ilium
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Ilium is the ancient city better known as Troy, a major setting of Greek mythology and epic poetry, especially the Trojan War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ilium canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11840078 — 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: Ilium Context triple: [Ilus (son of Tros), founderOf, Ilium]
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A.
Shinbone
Shinbone is the fictional frontier town in the classic Western film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," serving as the central setting for its story of law, legend, and political change.
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B.
Schievelbein
Schievelbein is a historic town in Pomerania, now known as Świdwin in northwestern Poland.
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C.
Trapezus
Trapezus was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of the Black Sea, known as a key port and later as the nucleus of the medieval Empire of Trebizond.
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D.
Bone
The B-1B Lancer, nicknamed "Bone," is a U.S. long-range supersonic strategic bomber known for its variable-sweep wings and low-level penetration capabilities.
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E.
Bone
Bone is a hard, calcified connective tissue that forms the structural framework of the skeleton in vertebrate animals.
- 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: Ilium Target entity description: Ilium is the ancient city better known as Troy, a major setting of Greek mythology and epic poetry, especially the Trojan War.
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A.
Shinbone
Shinbone is the fictional frontier town in the classic Western film "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," serving as the central setting for its story of law, legend, and political change.
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B.
Schievelbein
Schievelbein is a historic town in Pomerania, now known as Świdwin in northwestern Poland.
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C.
Trapezus
Trapezus was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of the Black Sea, known as a key port and later as the nucleus of the medieval Empire of Trebizond.
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D.
Bone
The B-1B Lancer, nicknamed "Bone," is a U.S. long-range supersonic strategic bomber known for its variable-sweep wings and low-level penetration capabilities.
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E.
Bone
Bone is a hard, calcified connective tissue that forms the structural framework of the skeleton in vertebrate animals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
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archaeological site ⓘ mythological location ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ilion
NERFINISHED
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Troia NERFINISHED ⓘ Troy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Aeneid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cypria NERFINISHED ⓘ Iliad NERFINISHED ⓘ Iliou Persis NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Iliad NERFINISHED ⓘ Odyssey NERFINISHED ⓘ Posthomerica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Trojan War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople |
Aeneas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andromache NERFINISHED ⓘ Cassandra NERFINISHED ⓘ Hector NERFINISHED ⓘ Hecuba NERFINISHED ⓘ Helen of Troy NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ Priam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| besiegedBy |
Achaeans
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greeks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destroyedBy |
Greeks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trojan Horse stratagem ⓘ |
| destroyedIn | Trojan War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Carl Blegen
NERFINISHED
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Heinrich Schliemann NERFINISHED ⓘ Manfred Korfmann NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilhelm Dörpfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy | King Priam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
symbol of heroic warfare
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symbol of tragic destruction ⓘ |
| hasRole |
central setting of Homeric epics
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major setting in Greek mythology ⓘ setting of the Trojan War ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Asia Minor
ⓘ
Troad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Turkey ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Dardanelles
NERFINISHED
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Hellespont NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Ida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedByAuthor |
Herodotus
NERFINISHED
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Homer NERFINISHED ⓘ Strabo NERFINISHED ⓘ Virgil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposedByDeity |
Athena
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hera NERFINISHED ⓘ Poseidon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Bronze Age Anatolia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protectedByDeity |
Aphrodite
NERFINISHED
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Apollo NERFINISHED ⓘ Ares NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| situatedOn | Hisarlik hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Bronze Age
NERFINISHED
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Late Bronze Age ⓘ |
| UNESCOListingYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | World Heritage Site ⓘ |
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: Ilium Description of subject: Ilium is the ancient city better known as Troy, a major setting of Greek mythology and epic poetry, especially the Trojan War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.