Marcia
E268445
Marcia was the wife of the Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher Cato the Younger, known from accounts of late Republican Rome.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcia canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2100766 — 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: Marcia Context triple: [Cato the Younger, spouse, Marcia]
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A.
Marcia
Marcia was the mother of the Roman emperor Trajan and a member of the provincial Roman aristocracy in Hispania.
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B.
Marcie
"Marcie" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 1968 debut album "Song to a Seagull," noted for its introspective lyrics and folk-inspired style.
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C.
Diane
Diane is a feminine given name of Latin origin, derived from the name of the Roman goddess Diana.
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D.
Sandra
Sandra is the given name of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
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E.
Paula
Paula is a feminine given name used in many languages, derived from the Latin name Paulus meaning "small" or "humble."
- 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: Marcia Target entity description: Marcia was the wife of the Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher Cato the Younger, known from accounts of late Republican Rome.
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A.
Marcia
Marcia was the mother of the Roman emperor Trajan and a member of the provincial Roman aristocracy in Hispania.
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B.
Marcie
"Marcie" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 1968 debut album "Song to a Seagull," noted for its introspective lyrics and folk-inspired style.
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C.
Diane
Diane is a feminine given name of Latin origin, derived from the name of the Roman goddess Diana.
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D.
Sandra
Sandra is the given name of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
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E.
Paula
Paula is a feminine given name used in many languages, derived from the Latin name Paulus meaning "small" or "humble."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman woman
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historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roman Senate aristocracy
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Stoicism ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| familyName | Marcia gens ⓘ |
| father | Lucius Marcius Philippus ⓘ |
| floruit | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the wife of Cato the Younger ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| lifeInferredFrom | ancient literary sources ⓘ |
| maritalStatus |
later married to Hortensius
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married to Cato the Younger ⓘ returned to Cato the Younger after Hortensius' death ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Plutarch's Life of Cato the Younger
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linked to:
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
Valerius Maximus' writings ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
divorced by Cato the Younger so she could marry Hortensius
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returned to Cato the Younger with Hortensius' inheritance ⓘ |
| religion | traditional Roman religion ⓘ |
| residence | Rome ⓘ |
| socialClass | Roman nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
Cato the Younger
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Hortensius ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Late Roman Republic ⓘ |
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: Marcia Description of subject: Marcia was the wife of the Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher Cato the Younger, known from accounts of late Republican Rome.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.