Gordian II
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Gordian II was a short-lived Roman emperor of the 3rd century who briefly co-ruled with his father Gordian I during the Year of the Six Emperors in 238 AD.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gordian II canonical | 14 |
| Emperor Gordian II | 1 |
| Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus (Gordian II) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3932292 — 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: Gordian II Context triple: [Gordian III, father, Gordian II]
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Emperor Gordian III
Emperor Gordian III was a young 3rd-century Roman emperor whose brief reign (238–244 AD) was marked by campaigns against the Sassanid Empire and relative internal stability following the Year of the Six Emperors.
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B.
Pertinax
Pertinax was a Roman military commander and short-reigning emperor in 193 AD, known for his role in frontier wars and his brief, reform-minded rule following the assassination of Commodus.
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Severus Alexander
Severus Alexander was a Roman emperor who ruled from 222 to 235 AD, known as the last emperor of the Severan dynasty and for his relatively peaceful and administratively focused reign before being overthrown by the army.
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D.
Macrinus
Macrinus was a Roman emperor who briefly ruled from 217 to 218 CE, notable for being the first emperor to come from the equestrian class rather than the traditional senatorial aristocracy.
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E.
Carinus
Carinus was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd century who ruled during the Crisis of the Third Century and was ultimately defeated by Diocletian.
- 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: Gordian II Target entity description: Gordian II was a short-lived Roman emperor of the 3rd century who briefly co-ruled with his father Gordian I during the Year of the Six Emperors in 238 AD.
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A.
Emperor Gordian III
Emperor Gordian III was a young 3rd-century Roman emperor whose brief reign (238–244 AD) was marked by campaigns against the Sassanid Empire and relative internal stability following the Year of the Six Emperors.
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B.
Pertinax
Pertinax was a Roman military commander and short-reigning emperor in 193 AD, known for his role in frontier wars and his brief, reform-minded rule following the assassination of Commodus.
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C.
Severus Alexander
Severus Alexander was a Roman emperor who ruled from 222 to 235 AD, known as the last emperor of the Severan dynasty and for his relatively peaceful and administratively focused reign before being overthrown by the army.
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D.
Macrinus
Macrinus was a Roman emperor who briefly ruled from 217 to 218 CE, notable for being the first emperor to come from the equestrian class rather than the traditional senatorial aristocracy.
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E.
Carinus
Carinus was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd century who ruled during the Crisis of the Third Century and was ultimately defeated by Diocletian.
- 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: Gordian II Description of subject: Gordian II was a short-lived Roman emperor of the 3rd century who briefly co-ruled with his father Gordian I during the Year of the Six Emperors in 238 AD.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Emperor Gordian III
subject linked to:
UNESCO World Heritage Site (amphitheatre)
linked to: Gordian II
linked to: Gordian II