Lollius
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Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lollius canonical | 5 |
| Lollius (nomen gentilicium) | 1 |
| Marcus Lollius | 1 |
| Roman legate Marcus Lollius | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3152519 — 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: Lollius Context triple: [Lollia Paulina, familyName, Lollius]
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A.
Quintus Poppaedius Silo
Quintus Poppaedius Silo was a leading Marsic noble and military commander who became one of the principal leaders of the Italian allies against Rome during the Social War.
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B.
Cassianus
Cassianus is the Latin name of Saint Cassian of Imola, an early Christian martyr and teacher venerated in the Catholic Church.
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C.
Germainus
Germainus is a Latinized form of the name Germain, historically used as a given name in Roman and early Christian contexts.
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D.
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was a Roman senator of the late Republic who served as consul in 56 BC and belonged to the prominent patrician Cornelii Lentuli family.
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E.
Didius Julianus
Didius Julianus was a short-lived Roman emperor in 193 AD, infamous for effectively purchasing the imperial throne during the chaotic Year of the Five Emperors.
- 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: Lollius Target entity description: Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
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A.
Quintus Poppaedius Silo
Quintus Poppaedius Silo was a leading Marsic noble and military commander who became one of the principal leaders of the Italian allies against Rome during the Social War.
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B.
Cassianus
Cassianus is the Latin name of Saint Cassian of Imola, an early Christian martyr and teacher venerated in the Catholic Church.
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C.
Germainus
Germainus is a Latinized form of the name Germain, historically used as a given name in Roman and early Christian contexts.
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D.
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was a Roman senator of the late Republic who served as consul in 56 BC and belonged to the prominent patrician Cornelii Lentuli family.
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E.
Didius Julianus
Didius Julianus was a short-lived Roman emperor in 193 AD, infamous for effectively purchasing the imperial throne during the chaotic Year of the Five Emperors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman family
ⓘ
ancient Roman gens ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Roman aristocracy ⓘ |
| country |
Ancient Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
|
| culture | Roman ⓘ |
| femaleFormOfNomen | Lollia ⓘ |
| genderOfNomen | masculine ⓘ |
| geographicScope | city of Rome ⓘ |
| hasFemaleMembers | Lollia Paulina ⓘ |
| hasMember | Lollia Paulina ⓘ |
| hasNomen | Lollius ⓘ |
| hasPraenomenPattern | standard Roman praenomina for male members ⓘ |
| historicalSourceType |
ancient literary sources
ⓘ
epigraphic evidence ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf | Roman nobility ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Lollius (nomen gentilicium)
ⓘ
linked to:
Lollius
|
| namingConvention | Roman tria nomina system ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocratic family ⓘ |
| socialStatus | senatorial rank (some members) ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| typeOf | patrician or plebeian gens (status uncertain/varied) ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name in ancient Rome ⓘ |
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: Lollius Description of subject: Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lollius
linked to: Lollius
linked to: Lollius