Helvius Successus
E290377
Helvius Successus was a Roman man of equestrian or municipal background, best known as the father of the future emperor Pertinax.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Helvius Successus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2710006 — 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: Helvius Successus Context triple: [Pertinax, father, Helvius Successus]
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A.
Rechiarius
Rechiarius was a 5th-century king of the Suebi in Gallaecia, known for being one of the first Germanic rulers to convert to Catholic Christianity and for his military campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula.
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B.
Flaccus
Flaccus is the cognomen of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in English as Horace.
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C.
Julius Civilis
Julius Civilis was a 1st-century Batavian chieftain and Roman military officer who led a major revolt against Roman rule along the Rhine frontier.
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D.
Hannibalianus
Hannibalianus was a 4th-century Roman nobleman and member of Constantine the Great’s family, briefly elevated with a royal title during the emperor’s eastern campaigns before being executed in the dynastic purges of 337.
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E.
Sabinus
Sabinus is a cognomen used by members of the ancient Roman Claudian gens, identifying a particular family branch within this prominent patrician lineage.
- 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: Helvius Successus Target entity description: Helvius Successus was a Roman man of equestrian or municipal background, best known as the father of the future emperor Pertinax.
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A.
Rechiarius
Rechiarius was a 5th-century king of the Suebi in Gallaecia, known for being one of the first Germanic rulers to convert to Catholic Christianity and for his military campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula.
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B.
Flaccus
Flaccus is the cognomen of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in English as Horace.
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C.
Julius Civilis
Julius Civilis was a 1st-century Batavian chieftain and Roman military officer who led a major revolt against Roman rule along the Rhine frontier.
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D.
Hannibalianus
Hannibalianus was a 4th-century Roman nobleman and member of Constantine the Great’s family, briefly elevated with a royal title during the emperor’s eastern campaigns before being executed in the dynastic purges of 337.
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E.
Sabinus
Sabinus is a cognomen used by members of the ancient Roman Claudian gens, identifying a particular family branch within this prominent patrician lineage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman person
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equestrian ⓘ |
| child | Pertinax ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | Roman citizen ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| describedAs |
of humble origin
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poor man ⓘ |
| describedIn | Historia Augusta ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Roman ⓘ |
| familyName | Helvius ⓘ |
| floruit | 2nd century ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the father of Roman emperor Pertinax ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Italia
ⓘ
linked to:
Italy
|
| nobleTitle | none ⓘ |
| notableWork | father of the emperor Pertinax ⓘ |
| occupation | merchant ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman equestrian order ⓘ |
| relative | Helvia (wife) ⓘ |
| residence | Alba Pompeia ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialStatus |
equestrian background
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municipal background ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 2nd century ⓘ |
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: Helvius Successus Description of subject: Helvius Successus was a Roman man of equestrian or municipal background, best known as the father of the future emperor Pertinax.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.