“VIRTVTIBVS MAIORVM”
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“VIRTVTIBVS MAIORVM” is the Latin dedication inscribed on Lisbon’s Arco da Rua Augusta, honoring the virtues and achievements of the city’s forebears.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| “VIRTVTIBVS MAIORVM” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4691131 — 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: “VIRTVTIBVS MAIORVM” Context triple: [Arco da Rua Augusta, hasInscription, “VIRTVTIBVS MAIORVM”]
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A.
“Ne Desit Virtus”
“Ne Desit Virtus” is the Latin motto of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, traditionally translated as “Let Valor Not Fail” or “Courage Shall Not Fail.”
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B.
Virtus Vera Nobilitas
Virtus Vera Nobilitas is the Latin motto of Trinity College, Cambridge, expressing the ideal that true nobility is found in virtue.
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C.
Dei Sub Numine Viget
Dei Sub Numine Viget is the Latin motto of Princeton University, traditionally translated as “Under God’s Power She Flourishes.”
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D.
Novellae Maioriani
Novellae Maioriani are a collection of legal edicts and reforms promulgated by the Western Roman Emperor Majorian in the mid-5th century, reflecting efforts to strengthen and reorganize the declining Western Roman Empire.
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E.
Summus Poeninus
Summus Poeninus is the Latin name for the Great St Bernard Pass, a historic Alpine route linking Switzerland and Italy that has served as a key transalpine crossing since antiquity.
- 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: “VIRTVTIBVS MAIORVM” Target entity description: “VIRTVTIBVS MAIORVM” is the Latin dedication inscribed on Lisbon’s Arco da Rua Augusta, honoring the virtues and achievements of the city’s forebears.
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A.
“Ne Desit Virtus”
“Ne Desit Virtus” is the Latin motto of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, traditionally translated as “Let Valor Not Fail” or “Courage Shall Not Fail.”
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B.
Virtus Vera Nobilitas
Virtus Vera Nobilitas is the Latin motto of Trinity College, Cambridge, expressing the ideal that true nobility is found in virtue.
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C.
Dei Sub Numine Viget
Dei Sub Numine Viget is the Latin motto of Princeton University, traditionally translated as “Under God’s Power She Flourishes.”
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D.
Novellae Maioriani
Novellae Maioriani are a collection of legal edicts and reforms promulgated by the Western Roman Emperor Majorian in the mid-5th century, reflecting efforts to strengthen and reorganize the declining Western Roman Empire.
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E.
Summus Poeninus
Summus Poeninus is the Latin name for the Great St Bernard Pass, a historic Alpine route linking Switzerland and Italy that has served as a key transalpine crossing since antiquity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin inscription
ⓘ
dedication phrase ⓘ motto ⓘ |
| approximateMeaning | To the virtues of the ancestors ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Lisbon city identity
ⓘ
commemoration of Lisbon’s past ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | forebears of Lisbon ⓘ |
| honors |
achievements of the city’s forebears
ⓘ
virtues of the ancestors ⓘ |
| inscribedOn | Arco da Rua Augusta ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lisbon
ⓘ
Portugal ⓘ |
| partOf | decorative program of the Arco da Rua Augusta ⓘ |
| role | monumental dedication on a triumphal arch ⓘ |
| scriptType | Roman capitals ⓘ |
| theme |
civic virtue
ⓘ
historical memory ⓘ |
| usedAs | symbolic motto of the Arco da Rua Augusta ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: “VIRTVTIBVS MAIORVM” Description of subject: “VIRTVTIBVS MAIORVM” is the Latin dedication inscribed on Lisbon’s Arco da Rua Augusta, honoring the virtues and achievements of the city’s forebears.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.