Numerian
E400003
Numerian was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd century who briefly ruled the eastern half of the empire before his mysterious death in 284 AD.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Numerian canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3625833 — 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: Numerian Context triple: [Carinus, sibling, Numerian]
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A.
Maxentius
Maxentius was a Roman emperor who ruled Italy and Africa in the early 4th century and was famously defeated by Constantine the Great at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
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B.
Licinius II
Licinius II was a Roman imperial prince of the early 4th century, son of Emperor Licinius I and Constantia (half-sister of Constantine the Great), who briefly held the junior title of Caesar before his execution amid dynastic conflicts.
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C.
Constantius Gallus
Constantius Gallus was a 4th-century Roman Caesar of the Constantinian dynasty who ruled the eastern provinces under Emperor Constantius II before being executed on suspicion of treason.
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D.
Galerius
Galerius was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries CE, best known for his role in the Tetrarchy and for intensifying the persecution of Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire.
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E.
Licinius
Licinius was a Roman emperor of the early 4th century who ruled the eastern part of the empire and is best known for co-authoring the Edict of Milan, which granted religious tolerance to Christians.
- 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: Numerian Target entity description: Numerian was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd century who briefly ruled the eastern half of the empire before his mysterious death in 284 AD.
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A.
Maxentius
Maxentius was a Roman emperor who ruled Italy and Africa in the early 4th century and was famously defeated by Constantine the Great at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
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B.
Licinius II
Licinius II was a Roman imperial prince of the early 4th century, son of Emperor Licinius I and Constantia (half-sister of Constantine the Great), who briefly held the junior title of Caesar before his execution amid dynastic conflicts.
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C.
Constantius Gallus
Constantius Gallus was a 4th-century Roman Caesar of the Constantinian dynasty who ruled the eastern provinces under Emperor Constantius II before being executed on suspicion of treason.
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D.
Galerius
Galerius was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries CE, best known for his role in the Tetrarchy and for intensifying the persecution of Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire.
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E.
Licinius
Licinius was a Roman emperor of the early 4th century who ruled the eastern part of the empire and is best known for co-authoring the Edict of Milan, which granted religious tolerance to Christians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman emperor
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Marcus Aurelius Numerian
ⓘ
linked to:
Marcus Aurelius Numerius Numerianus
Numerianus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| armyTitle |
imperator
ⓘ
linked to:
Imperator
|
| associatedWith |
Carinus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carus ⓘ Diocletian ⓘ |
| birthName | Marcus Aurelius Numerius Numerianus ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| coinage | featured on Roman imperial coins ⓘ |
| colleagueInOffice | Carinus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathCause |
possibly murder
ⓘ
unknown ⓘ |
| deathDate | 284 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | near Heraclea in Thrace ⓘ |
| dynasty | Caran dynasty ⓘ |
| era | Crisis of the Third Century ⓘ |
| father | Carus ⓘ |
| governmentForm | Roman imperial monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Late Roman Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Late Antiquity
|
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | suspicious ⓘ |
| militaryCampaign | campaign against the Sasanian Empire ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Roman–Persian Wars ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
accompanied Carus on Persian campaign
ⓘ
death discovered in a closed litter ⓘ elevation of Diocletian by the army after his death ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Historia Augusta
ⓘ
works of later Roman historians ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Augustus
ⓘ
Caesar ⓘ Roman emperor ⓘ |
| predecessor | Carus ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 284 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 283 ⓘ |
| relative | Nigrianus ⓘ |
| religion | Roman paganism ⓘ |
| ruledRegion |
Eastern Roman Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Byzantine Empire
|
| sibling | Carinus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Diocletian ⓘ |
| successorState |
Tetrarchic Roman Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Diocletian's Tetrarchy
|
| title |
Germanicus Maximus
ⓘ
linked to:
Germanicus
Pater Patriae ⓘ Persicus Maximus ⓘ Pontifex Maximus ⓘ
linked to:
pontifex maximus
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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: Numerian Description of subject: Numerian was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd century who briefly ruled the eastern half of the empire before his mysterious death in 284 AD.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.