Annius
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Annius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen gentilicium) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Republic and Empire.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Annius canonical | 6 |
| Annius Verus | 1 |
| Gaius Annius Anullinus | 1 |
| Lucius Annius Vinicianus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3671078 — 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: Annius Context triple: [Marcus Annius Verus (praetor), familyName, Annius]
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A.
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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B.
Flaccus Albinus
Flaccus Albinus is another name for Alcuin of York, the influential Anglo-Saxon scholar and advisor at the court of Charlemagne during the Carolingian Renaissance.
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C.
Lollius
Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
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D.
Rufrius Crispinus
Rufrius Crispinus was a Roman equestrian and Praetorian Prefect under Emperor Claudius, later known chiefly as the first husband of the empress Poppaea Sabina.
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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: Annius Target entity description: Annius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen gentilicium) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Republic and Empire.
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A.
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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B.
Flaccus Albinus
Flaccus Albinus is another name for Alcuin of York, the influential Anglo-Saxon scholar and advisor at the court of Charlemagne during the Carolingian Renaissance.
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C.
Lollius
Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
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D.
Rufrius Crispinus
Rufrius Crispinus was a Roman equestrian and Praetorian Prefect under Emperor Claudius, later known chiefly as the first husband of the empress Poppaea Sabina.
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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 (38)
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: Annius Description of subject: Annius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen gentilicium) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Republic and Empire.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.