optio
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An optio was a junior officer in the Roman army who served as the deputy and second-in-command to a centurion within a legionary unit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| optio canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2055537 — 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: optio Context triple: [Roman army, hasRank, optio]
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A.
Opti
Opti is a friendly, futuristic robot character that served as one of the official mascots of Expo 2020 Dubai.
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B.
Optimates
The Optimates were a conservative political faction in the late Roman Republic that championed senatorial authority and traditional aristocratic privileges against popular reformers like Julius Caesar.
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C.
OPA
OPA is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1990 that strengthens regulations and liability standards for preventing and responding to oil spills in navigable waters and shorelines.
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D.
OPO
OPO is the vehicle registration code assigned to the Polish city of Opole.
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E.
OEI
OEI is the Spanish-Portuguese acronym for the Organization of Ibero-American States, an international body that promotes cooperation in education, science, and culture among Ibero-American countries.
- 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: optio Target entity description: An optio was a junior officer in the Roman army who served as the deputy and second-in-command to a centurion within a legionary unit.
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A.
Opti
Opti is a friendly, futuristic robot character that served as one of the official mascots of Expo 2020 Dubai.
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B.
Optimates
The Optimates were a conservative political faction in the late Roman Republic that championed senatorial authority and traditional aristocratic privileges against popular reformers like Julius Caesar.
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C.
OPA
OPA is a U.S. federal law enacted in 1990 that strengthens regulations and liability standards for preventing and responding to oil spills in navigable waters and shorelines.
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D.
OPO
OPO is the vehicle registration code assigned to the Polish city of Opole.
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E.
OEI
OEI is the Spanish-Portuguese acronym for the Organization of Ibero-American States, an international body that promotes cooperation in education, science, and culture among Ibero-American countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman military rank
ⓘ
junior officer ⓘ |
| appointedBy | centurion ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Roman legion organization ⓘ |
| couldBePromotedTo | centurion ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
Roman military inscriptions
ⓘ
Roman military manuals and treatises ⓘ |
| etymologicallyMeans | chosen man ⓘ |
| foundIn | Roman legion ⓘ |
| function |
assist centurion in tactical control
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oversee guard duties ⓘ relay orders along the ranks ⓘ supervise logistics at unit level ⓘ |
| hadPayHigherThan | ordinary legionary ⓘ |
| hadStatus | non-commissioned officer ⓘ |
| hadTitleEtymologyFrom | Latin optare ⓘ |
| hadVariants |
optio ad spem ordinis
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optio carceris ⓘ optio centuriae ⓘ optio praetorii ⓘ optio speculatorum ⓘ |
| mayCommand | century in absence of the centurion ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman army ⓘ |
| period |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| rankAbove |
immunes
ⓘ
tesserarius ⓘ |
| rankBelow | centurion ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
administrative duties for the centurion
ⓘ
discipline within the century ⓘ maintaining order in the ranks ⓘ training of legionaries ⓘ |
| secondInCommandOf | century ⓘ |
| servedIn |
auxiliary units
ⓘ
legionary infantry units ⓘ |
| subordinateTo | centurion ⓘ |
| typeOf | subaltern officer ⓘ |
| used | staff to maintain alignment of ranks ⓘ |
| wore |
distinctive helmet crest
ⓘ
staff or rod as badge of office ⓘ |
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: optio Description of subject: An optio was a junior officer in the Roman army who served as the deputy and second-in-command to a centurion within a legionary unit.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.