Cornelius
E233935
Cornelius is the ancient Roman gens (clan) to which the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla belonged.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornelius canonical | 59 |
| Cornelius (nomen) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2100681 — 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: Cornelius Context triple: [Lucius Cornelius Sulla, familyName, Cornelius]
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A.
Cornelius
Cornelius is the given first name of Connie Mack, the legendary early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and team owner.
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B.
Cornelius the centurion
Cornelius the centurion is a Roman army officer in the New Testament whose conversion in Acts marks a pivotal moment in the early Christian mission to Gentiles.
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C.
Faustulus
Faustulus is the shepherd in Roman mythology who discovers the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus and secretly raises them.
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D.
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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E.
Ulpius
Ulpius is the family name (nomen gentilicium) of the Roman emperor Trajan, identifying him as a member of the gens Ulpia.
- 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: Cornelius Target entity description: Cornelius is the ancient Roman gens (clan) to which the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla belonged.
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A.
Cornelius
Cornelius is the given first name of Connie Mack, the legendary early 20th-century Major League Baseball manager and team owner.
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B.
Cornelius the centurion
Cornelius the centurion is a Roman army officer in the New Testament whose conversion in Acts marks a pivotal moment in the early Christian mission to Gentiles.
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C.
Faustulus
Faustulus is the shepherd in Roman mythology who discovers the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus and secretly raises them.
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D.
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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E.
Ulpius
Ulpius is the family name (nomen gentilicium) of the Roman emperor Trajan, identifying him as a member of the gens Ulpia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman clan
ⓘ
ancient Roman gens ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Roman Senate ⓘ |
| country |
Ancient Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
|
| ethnicity | Roman ⓘ |
| familyName | Cornelius ⓘ |
| femaleFormOfNomen | Cornelia ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
Roman military affairs
ⓘ
Roman politics ⓘ Roman religion ⓘ |
| genderOfNomen | masculine ⓘ |
| hasMember | Lucius Cornelius Sulla ⓘ |
| hasPraenomen |
Aulus
ⓘ
Gaius ⓘ Gnaeus ⓘ Lucius ⓘ Publius ⓘ Servius ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cornelius ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Cornelius (nomen)
ⓘ
linked to:
Cornelius
|
| nomenForm | Cornelius ⓘ |
| notableBranch |
Cornelii Balbi
ⓘ
Cornelii Cethegi ⓘ
linked to:
Servius Cornelius Cethegus
Cornelii Dolabellae ⓘ Cornelii Lentuli ⓘ
linked to:
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus
Cornelii Scipiones ⓘ
linked to:
Scipio
Cornelii Sullae ⓘ
linked to:
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
|
| notableMember |
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina
ⓘ
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus ⓘ Lucius Cornelius Balbus ⓘ
linked to:
Lucius Cornelius Balbus the Elder
Lucius Cornelius Sulla ⓘ Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura ⓘ Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus ⓘ
linked to:
Scipio Aemilianus
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus ⓘ
linked to:
Scipio Africanus
|
| origin | early Roman patriciate ⓘ |
| politicalRole |
produced Roman censors
ⓘ
produced Roman dictators ⓘ produced Roman praetors ⓘ produced many Roman consuls ⓘ |
| socialClass | patrician family ⓘ |
| status | one of the most distinguished Roman gentes ⓘ |
| timeSpan | active from early Republic to Imperial period ⓘ |
| typeOfName | gentilicium (clan name) ⓘ |
| usedAs | Roman nomen gentilicium ⓘ |
| usedBy | citizens of Rome belonging to gens Cornelia ⓘ |
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: Cornelius Description of subject: Cornelius is the ancient Roman gens (clan) to which the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla belonged.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cornelius
subject linked to:
Cornelius
subject linked to:
Ancient Roman nomina
subject linked to:
Cornelia (through Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
subject linked to:
Cornelia (through Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
subject linked to:
Cinna