Marcellus the Younger
E189031
Marcellus the Younger was a promising Roman nobleman and nephew of Emperor Augustus, whose early death led to his commemoration in Virgil’s Aeneid and the naming of the Theatre of Marcellus in his honor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marcellus the Younger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1686153 — 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: Marcellus the Younger Context triple: [Mausoleum of Augustus, burialPlaceOf, Marcellus the Younger]
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A.
Sabbatius
Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
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B.
Julia Drusilla (daughter of Caligula)
Julia Drusilla was the only surviving daughter of the Roman emperor Caligula, briefly designated as his heir before being murdered alongside her parents in 41 CE.
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C.
Giulio
Giulio is the given name of Giulio Douhet, an influential early 20th-century Italian air power theorist and general.
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D.
Scribonia
Scribonia was a Roman noblewoman best known as the second wife of Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only biological child, Julia the Elder.
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E.
Maccus
Maccus is an Old Norse–derived given name that served as the historical root for the later surname and given name Maxwell.
- 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: Marcellus the Younger Target entity description: Marcellus the Younger was a promising Roman nobleman and nephew of Emperor Augustus, whose early death led to his commemoration in Virgil’s Aeneid and the naming of the Theatre of Marcellus in his honor.
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A.
Sabbatius
Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
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B.
Julia Drusilla (daughter of Caligula)
Julia Drusilla was the only surviving daughter of the Roman emperor Caligula, briefly designated as his heir before being murdered alongside her parents in 41 CE.
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C.
Giulio
Giulio is the given name of Giulio Douhet, an influential early 20th-century Italian air power theorist and general.
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D.
Scribonia
Scribonia was a Roman noblewoman best known as the second wife of Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only biological child, Julia the Elder.
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E.
Maccus
Maccus is an Old Norse–derived given name that served as the historical root for the later surname and given name Maxwell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Marcellus the Younger Description of subject: Marcellus the Younger was a promising Roman nobleman and nephew of Emperor Augustus, whose early death led to his commemoration in Virgil’s Aeneid and the naming of the Theatre of Marcellus in his honor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.