magister navis
E192191
The magister navis was a senior Roman naval commander responsible for overseeing fleets and maritime operations in the Roman state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| magister navis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1702879 — 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: magister navis Context triple: [Roman navy, commandStructure, magister navis]
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A.
Rosanero
Rosanero is the traditional nickname of Italian football club Palermo FC, referring to the club’s distinctive pink-and-black colors.
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B.
Coronel
Coronel is a coastal city in south-central Chile known for its historic coal-mining industry and fishing activities along the Pacific Ocean.
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C.
maravedí
The maravedí was a medieval and early modern Spanish monetary unit that served as a principal accounting and coinage standard in the kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula, especially Castile.
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D.
Molo Audace
Molo Audace is a historic stone pier in Trieste, Italy, extending into the Gulf of Trieste and serving as a popular promenade and viewpoint over the city’s waterfront.
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E.
Brig
Brig is a historic Swiss town in the canton of Valais, known as a regional transport hub and gateway to the surrounding Alpine passes.
- 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: magister navis Target entity description: The magister navis was a senior Roman naval commander responsible for overseeing fleets and maritime operations in the Roman state.
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A.
Rosanero
Rosanero is the traditional nickname of Italian football club Palermo FC, referring to the club’s distinctive pink-and-black colors.
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B.
Coronel
Coronel is a coastal city in south-central Chile known for its historic coal-mining industry and fishing activities along the Pacific Ocean.
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C.
maravedí
The maravedí was a medieval and early modern Spanish monetary unit that served as a principal accounting and coinage standard in the kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula, especially Castile.
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D.
Molo Audace
Molo Audace is a historic stone pier in Trieste, Italy, extending into the Gulf of Trieste and serving as a popular promenade and viewpoint over the city’s waterfront.
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E.
Brig
Brig is a historic Swiss town in the canton of Valais, known as a regional transport hub and gateway to the surrounding Alpine passes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman military office
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Roman naval rank ⓘ naval commander ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Roman navy ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roman naval campaigns
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control of maritime trade routes ⓘ protection of sea routes ⓘ |
| country |
ancient Rome
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linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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| domain | Mediterranean Sea ⓘ |
| field |
maritime operations
ⓘ
naval warfare ⓘ |
| hasAuthorityOver |
deployment of warships
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naval logistics ⓘ naval strategy and tactics ⓘ |
| hasRankRelativeTo | above ordinary ship commanders ⓘ |
| languageOfTerm | Latin ⓘ |
| literalMeaning | master of the ship ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman military command structure ⓘ |
| positionInOrganization | senior commander ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
Roman naval fleets
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coordination of multiple squadrons ⓘ maritime operations of the Roman state ⓘ overall command of assigned fleet ⓘ strategic direction of naval forces ⓘ |
| supervises |
naval officers
ⓘ
ship captains ⓘ |
| typeOf |
high command position
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military magistracy ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
Roman Empire
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Roman Republic ⓘ |
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: magister navis Description of subject: The magister navis was a senior Roman naval commander responsible for overseeing fleets and maritime operations in the Roman state.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.