Marcus Plautius Silvanus
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Marcus Plautius Silvanus was a Roman general and statesman of the early 1st century AD, noted for his military leadership in the Balkans and service under Emperor Augustus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marcus Plautius Silvanus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3966446 — 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: Marcus Plautius Silvanus Context triple: [Great Illyrian Revolt, RomanCommander, Marcus Plautius Silvanus]
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A.
Lucius Flavius Silva
Lucius Flavius Silva was a 1st-century Roman general best known for leading the siege of Masada during the First Jewish–Roman War.
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B.
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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C.
Subrius Flavus
Subrius Flavus was a Roman military officer and conspirator known for his role in the Pisonian plot to overthrow Emperor Nero in 65 CE.
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D.
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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E.
Lucius Munatius Plancus
Lucius Munatius Plancus was a Roman senator, general, and statesman of the late Republic who served under Julius Caesar and later helped shape the early principate under Augustus.
- 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: Marcus Plautius Silvanus Target entity description: Marcus Plautius Silvanus was a Roman general and statesman of the early 1st century AD, noted for his military leadership in the Balkans and service under Emperor Augustus.
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A.
Lucius Flavius Silva
Lucius Flavius Silva was a 1st-century Roman general best known for leading the siege of Masada during the First Jewish–Roman War.
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B.
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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C.
Subrius Flavus
Subrius Flavus was a Roman military officer and conspirator known for his role in the Pisonian plot to overthrow Emperor Nero in 65 CE.
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D.
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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E.
Lucius Munatius Plancus
Lucius Munatius Plancus was a Roman senator, general, and statesman of the late Republic who served under Julius Caesar and later helped shape the early principate under Augustus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman consul
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ancient Roman general ⓘ ancient Roman politician ⓘ |
| activeDuringReignOf | Augustus ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Roman Empire
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Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Roman ⓘ |
| floruit | early 1st century AD ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCognomen | Silvanus ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName |
Plautius
ⓘ
linked to:
Gaius Plautius Venox
|
| hasGivenName | Marcus ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Latin ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Roman army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableFor | military leadership in the Balkans ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
ⓘ
statesman ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman senatorial class ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman consul
ⓘ
Roman general ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Augustus ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity | Balkans ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1st century AD
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1st century BC ⓘ |
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: Marcus Plautius Silvanus Description of subject: Marcus Plautius Silvanus was a Roman general and statesman of the early 1st century AD, noted for his military leadership in the Balkans and service under Emperor Augustus.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.