Macrinus
E247894
Macrinus was a Roman emperor who briefly ruled from 217 to 218 CE, notable for being the first emperor to come from the equestrian class rather than the traditional senatorial aristocracy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macrinus canonical | 28 |
| Imperator Caesar Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus | 1 |
| Marcus Opellius Macrinus | 1 |
| Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1940083 — 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: Macrinus Context triple: [Severan dynasty, hasMonarch, Macrinus]
-
A.
Pertinax
Pertinax was a Roman military commander and short-reigning emperor in 193 AD, known for his role in frontier wars and his brief, reform-minded rule following the assassination of Commodus.
-
B.
Maximinus Daia
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.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
Jovinus
Jovinus was a Roman usurper who briefly claimed the imperial title in Gaul during the early 5th century Western Roman Empire.
-
E.
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.
- 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: Macrinus Target entity description: Macrinus was a Roman emperor who briefly ruled from 217 to 218 CE, notable for being the first emperor to come from the equestrian class rather than the traditional senatorial aristocracy.
-
A.
Pertinax
Pertinax was a Roman military commander and short-reigning emperor in 193 AD, known for his role in frontier wars and his brief, reform-minded rule following the assassination of Commodus.
-
B.
Maximinus Daia
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.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
Jovinus
Jovinus was a Roman usurper who briefly claimed the imperial title in Gaul during the early 5th century Western Roman Empire.
-
E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Macrinus Description of subject: Macrinus was a Roman emperor who briefly ruled from 217 to 218 CE, notable for being the first emperor to come from the equestrian class rather than the traditional senatorial aristocracy.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.