Dolabella
E496760
Dolabella is a minor Roman officer in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra," serving as a loyal attendant to Caesar and briefly showing compassion toward Cleopatra.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dolabella canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5128056 — 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: Dolabella Context triple: [Antony and Cleopatra, containsCharacter, Dolabella]
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A.
Sophroniscus
Sophroniscus was an Athenian stonemason and sculptor best known as the father of the philosopher Socrates.
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B.
Volusia Vettia
Volusia Vettia was a Roman noblewoman of the 2nd century AD, known primarily as the wife of the usurper emperor Avidius Cassius.
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C.
Panormus
Panormus is the ancient Greek and Roman name for the city now known as Palermo in Sicily, historically an important Mediterranean port and cultural crossroads.
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D.
Maurus
Maurus is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with early Christian saints and used as a variant of names like Maurice.
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E.
Alypia
Alypia was a late Roman noblewoman, best known as the daughter of the Western Roman emperor Anthemius and wife of the powerful general Ricimer.
- 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: Dolabella Target entity description: Dolabella is a minor Roman officer in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra," serving as a loyal attendant to Caesar and briefly showing compassion toward Cleopatra.
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A.
Sophroniscus
Sophroniscus was an Athenian stonemason and sculptor best known as the father of the philosopher Socrates.
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B.
Volusia Vettia
Volusia Vettia was a Roman noblewoman of the 2nd century AD, known primarily as the wife of the usurper emperor Avidius Cassius.
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C.
Panormus
Panormus is the ancient Greek and Roman name for the city now known as Palermo in Sicily, historically an important Mediterranean port and cultural crossroads.
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D.
Maurus
Maurus is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with early Christian saints and used as a variant of names like Maurice.
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E.
Alypia
Alypia was a late Roman noblewoman, best known as the daughter of the Western Roman emperor Anthemius and wife of the powerful general Ricimer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman officer
ⓘ
Shakespearean character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| allegiance | Caesar ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Antony and Cleopatra ⓘ |
| appearsInAct | later acts of Antony and Cleopatra ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roman Empire (dramatic setting)
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Empire
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| creator | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction |
elicits audience sympathy for Cleopatra
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humanizes Caesar’s camp ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceApproximateDate | early 17th century ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | tragedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance drama ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| nationality | Roman ⓘ |
| occupation | officer ⓘ |
| relationshipWith |
Caesar
ⓘ
Cleopatra ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | minor character ⓘ |
| servesAs | attendant to Caesar ⓘ |
| showsTrait |
compassion
ⓘ
kindness toward Cleopatra ⓘ loyalty ⓘ |
| workContext | Roman civil wars ⓘ |
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: Dolabella Description of subject: Dolabella is a minor Roman officer in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra," serving as a loyal attendant to Caesar and briefly showing compassion toward Cleopatra.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.