Maximinus Daia
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Maximinus Daia was a Roman emperor of the early 4th century, known as one of the Tetrarchs and a fierce persecutor of Christians in the eastern provinces.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maximinus Daia canonical | 19 |
| Maximinus Daza | 9 |
| Maximinus II | 1 |
| Maximinus II Daia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1778669 — 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: Maximinus Daia Context triple: [Galerius, coRulerWith, Maximinus Daia]
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Galerius
Galerius was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries CE, best known for his role in the Tetrarchy and for intensifying the persecution of Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Septimius Severus
Septimius Severus was a Roman emperor (reigned 193–211 CE) and founder of the Severan dynasty, known for his military campaigns and strengthening of imperial authority.
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Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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Carinus
Carinus was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd century who ruled during the Crisis of the Third Century and was ultimately defeated by Diocletian.
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Claudius Pompeianus
Claudius Pompeianus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman general and senator, son-in-law of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who played a key military role during the Marcomannic Wars.
- 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: Maximinus Daia Target entity description: Maximinus Daia was a Roman emperor of the early 4th century, known as one of the Tetrarchs and a fierce persecutor of Christians in the eastern provinces.
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A.
Galerius
Galerius was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries CE, best known for his role in the Tetrarchy and for intensifying the persecution of Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire.
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B.
Septimius Severus
Septimius Severus was a Roman emperor (reigned 193–211 CE) and founder of the Severan dynasty, known for his military campaigns and strengthening of imperial authority.
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Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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Carinus
Carinus was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd century who ruled during the Crisis of the Third Century and was ultimately defeated by Diocletian.
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E.
Claudius Pompeianus
Claudius Pompeianus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman general and senator, son-in-law of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who played a key military role during the Marcomannic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Maximinus Daia Description of subject: Maximinus Daia was a Roman emperor of the early 4th century, known as one of the Tetrarchs and a fierce persecutor of Christians in the eastern provinces.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Lactantius, De Mortibus Persecutorum
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Battle of Tzirallum in Thrace
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Battle of Tzirallum in Thrace
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Emperor Diocletian’s daughter Valeria
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Emperor Diocletian’s daughter Valeria