Otho
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Otho was a short-lived Roman emperor who ruled in 69 AD during the turbulent Year of the Four Emperors.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Otho canonical | 26 |
| Marcus Salvius Otho | 4 |
| Lucius Salvius Otho | 1 |
| Roman emperor Otho | 1 |
| Salvius Otho | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2966483 — 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: Otho Context triple: [Galba, successor, Otho]
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Agrippa Postumus
Agrippa Postumus was the youngest son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder, and a briefly designated heir of the Roman emperor Augustus before being exiled and executed.
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B.
Vitellius
Vitellius was a short-lived Roman emperor in 69 AD, the tumultuous "Year of the Four Emperors," known for his downfall amid civil war and succession by Vespasian.
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C.
Vespasian
Vespasian was a 1st-century Roman emperor best known for restoring stability after Nero’s reign and initiating major building projects such as the Colosseum.
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D.
Galba
Galba was a Roman general and statesman who briefly ruled as emperor during the tumultuous Year of the Four Emperors following Nero’s death.
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E.
Emperor Titus
Emperor Titus was a 1st-century Roman emperor of the Flavian dynasty, best known for completing the Colosseum and for his military victories, including the siege of Jerusalem.
- 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: Otho Target entity description: Otho was a short-lived Roman emperor who ruled in 69 AD during the turbulent Year of the Four Emperors.
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A.
Agrippa Postumus
Agrippa Postumus was the youngest son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder, and a briefly designated heir of the Roman emperor Augustus before being exiled and executed.
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B.
Vitellius
Vitellius was a short-lived Roman emperor in 69 AD, the tumultuous "Year of the Four Emperors," known for his downfall amid civil war and succession by Vespasian.
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C.
Vespasian
Vespasian was a 1st-century Roman emperor best known for restoring stability after Nero’s reign and initiating major building projects such as the Colosseum.
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D.
Galba
Galba was a Roman general and statesman who briefly ruled as emperor during the tumultuous Year of the Four Emperors following Nero’s death.
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E.
Emperor Titus
Emperor Titus was a 1st-century Roman emperor of the Flavian dynasty, best known for completing the Colosseum and for his military victories, including the siege of Jerusalem.
- 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: Otho Description of subject: Otho was a short-lived Roman emperor who ruled in 69 AD during the turbulent Year of the Four Emperors.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Otho
linked to: Otho
linked to: Otho
subject linked to:
annus quattuor imperatorum
subject linked to:
annus quattuor imperatorum
linked to: Otho
linked to: Otho