Celsus
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Celsus was a Roman encyclopedist and medical writer best known for his influential treatise "De Medicina," one of the most important surviving sources on ancient Roman medical knowledge and practice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Celsus canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13131124 — 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: Celsus Context triple: [Roman medicine, hasImportantFigure, Celsus]
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A.
Damascius
Damascius was a late antique Neoplatonist philosopher and the last scholarch of the Platonic Academy in Athens, known for his profound metaphysical works on the ineffable first principle.
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B.
Numenius of Apamea
Numenius of Apamea was a 2nd-century Platonist philosopher whose synthesis of Platonism with Pythagorean and Eastern religious ideas helped lay important groundwork for later Neoplatonism.
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C.
Possidius of Calama
Possidius of Calama was a 5th-century North African bishop, close friend and biographer of Saint Augustine, known for his work "Vita Augustini" and his defense of Augustine’s teachings.
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D.
Hegesinus of Pergamon
Hegesinus of Pergamon was an Academic philosopher who led Plato’s Academy in the 2nd century BCE, serving as scholarch between the tenures of Carneades and his successors.
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E.
Bion of Smyrna
Bion of Smyrna was a Greek bucolic poet of the Hellenistic period, best known for his elegiac and pastoral verses that influenced later pastoral literature.
- 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: Celsus Target entity description: Celsus was a Roman encyclopedist and medical writer best known for his influential treatise "De Medicina," one of the most important surviving sources on ancient Roman medical knowledge and practice.
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A.
Damascius
Damascius was a late antique Neoplatonist philosopher and the last scholarch of the Platonic Academy in Athens, known for his profound metaphysical works on the ineffable first principle.
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B.
Numenius of Apamea
Numenius of Apamea was a 2nd-century Platonist philosopher whose synthesis of Platonism with Pythagorean and Eastern religious ideas helped lay important groundwork for later Neoplatonism.
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C.
Possidius of Calama
Possidius of Calama was a 5th-century North African bishop, close friend and biographer of Saint Augustine, known for his work "Vita Augustini" and his defense of Augustine’s teachings.
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D.
Hegesinus of Pergamon
Hegesinus of Pergamon was an Academic philosopher who led Plato’s Academy in the 2nd century BCE, serving as scholarch between the tenures of Carneades and his successors.
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E.
Bion of Smyrna
Bion of Smyrna was a Greek bucolic poet of the Hellenistic period, best known for his elegiac and pastoral verses that influenced later pastoral literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman encyclopedist
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ancient Roman person ⓘ author ⓘ medical writer ⓘ |
| culture | Roman ⓘ |
| described |
Roman medical knowledge
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Roman medical practice ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dietetics
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encyclopedic writing ⓘ medicine ⓘ pharmacology ⓘ surgery ⓘ |
| genre |
encyclopedic work
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medical treatise ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
classical medical authority
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important source on Roman medicine ⓘ |
| influenced |
Renaissance medicine
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later Roman medicine ⓘ medieval medicine ⓘ |
| knownFor | De Medicina ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Latin ⓘ |
| notableWork | De Medicina ⓘ |
| occupation |
encyclopedist
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medical author ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| sourceFor |
history of ancient Roman medicine
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history of ancient surgery ⓘ history of pharmacology ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early Roman Empire ⓘ |
| workHasPart |
discussion of diet and regimen in De Medicina
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discussion of pathology in De Medicina ⓘ discussion of pharmacology in De Medicina ⓘ discussion of prognosis in De Medicina ⓘ discussion of surgery in De Medicina ⓘ discussion of therapeutics in De Medicina ⓘ |
| workStatus |
partly preserved
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survives in manuscript tradition ⓘ |
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: Celsus Description of subject: Celsus was a Roman encyclopedist and medical writer best known for his influential treatise "De Medicina," one of the most important surviving sources on ancient Roman medical knowledge and practice.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.