Constantine III
E204995
Constantine III was a late Roman general who declared himself Western Roman Emperor in Britain in 407 AD, briefly controlling much of Gaul and Hispania before being defeated and executed.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Constantine III canonical | 8 |
| Constantine III of Britain | 2 |
| King Constantine III (legendary) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1851735 — 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: Constantine III Context triple: [Honorius, notableUsurperDuringReign, Constantine III]
-
A.
Constantius III
Constantius III was a short-reigning Western Roman emperor and powerful general in the early 5th century, known for his role in stabilizing the empire during a period of crisis.
-
B.
Constantine III of Scotland
Constantine III of Scotland was a late 10th-century King of Scots whose brief and turbulent reign marked one of the final chapters of the House of Alpin’s rule over medieval Scotland.
-
C.
Constantius Chlorus
Constantius Chlorus was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, best known as a senior ruler in the Tetrarchy and the father of Constantine the Great.
-
D.
Licinius
Licinius was a Roman emperor of the early 4th century who ruled the eastern part of the empire and is best known for co-authoring the Edict of Milan, which granted religious tolerance to Christians.
-
E.
Constans
Constans was a 4th-century Roman emperor, son of Constantine the Great, who ruled over parts of the Western Roman Empire until his overthrow and death.
- 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: Constantine III Target entity description: Constantine III was a late Roman general who declared himself Western Roman Emperor in Britain in 407 AD, briefly controlling much of Gaul and Hispania before being defeated and executed.
-
A.
Constantius III
Constantius III was a short-reigning Western Roman emperor and powerful general in the early 5th century, known for his role in stabilizing the empire during a period of crisis.
-
B.
Constantine III of Scotland
Constantine III of Scotland was a late 10th-century King of Scots whose brief and turbulent reign marked one of the final chapters of the House of Alpin’s rule over medieval Scotland.
-
C.
Constantius Chlorus
Constantius Chlorus was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, best known as a senior ruler in the Tetrarchy and the father of Constantine the Great.
-
D.
Licinius
Licinius was a Roman emperor of the early 4th century who ruled the eastern part of the empire and is best known for co-authoring the Edict of Milan, which granted religious tolerance to Christians.
-
E.
Constans
Constans was a 4th-century Roman emperor, son of Constantine the Great, who ruled over parts of the Western Roman Empire until his overthrow and death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Constantine III Description of subject: Constantine III was a late Roman general who declared himself Western Roman Emperor in Britain in 407 AD, briefly controlling much of Gaul and Hispania before being defeated and executed.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Constantine III
linked to: Constantine III
linked to: Constantine III