Frontinus
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Latin prose writer
Roman governor
ancient Roman author
ancient Roman engineer
ancient Roman politician
military writer
technical writer
Frontinus was a Roman author, engineer, and politician best known for his technical treatise on the aqueducts of Rome and his writings on military strategy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frontinus canonical | 3 |
| Sextus Julius Frontinus | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6287981 — 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: Frontinus Context triple: [Silver Age of Latin literature, hasNotableAuthor, Frontinus]
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A.
Publius Ostorius Scapula
Publius Ostorius Scapula was a 1st-century Roman senator and general who, as governor of Britain under Emperor Claudius, led major campaigns to consolidate Roman control over the province.
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B.
Dio Cassius
Dio Cassius was a Roman statesman and historian best known for his extensive work "Roman History," which chronicles the Roman Empire from its founding to his own time.
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C.
Gnaeus Julius Agricola
Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a prominent 1st-century Roman general and governor of Britain, best known for his military campaigns expanding Roman control on the island and as the subject of Tacitus’ biography "Agricola."
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D.
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was a 1st-century Roman general and governor of Britain best known for crushing Boudica’s revolt and consolidating Roman control over the province.
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E.
Gaius Silius
Gaius Silius was a prominent Roman senator and aristocrat best known for his scandalous affair with the empress Valeria Messalina and his subsequent execution under Emperor Claudius.
- 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: Frontinus Target entity description: Frontinus was a Roman author, engineer, and politician best known for his technical treatise on the aqueducts of Rome and his writings on military strategy.
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A.
Publius Ostorius Scapula
Publius Ostorius Scapula was a 1st-century Roman senator and general who, as governor of Britain under Emperor Claudius, led major campaigns to consolidate Roman control over the province.
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B.
Dio Cassius
Dio Cassius was a Roman statesman and historian best known for his extensive work "Roman History," which chronicles the Roman Empire from its founding to his own time.
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C.
Gnaeus Julius Agricola
Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a prominent 1st-century Roman general and governor of Britain, best known for his military campaigns expanding Roman control on the island and as the subject of Tacitus’ biography "Agricola."
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D.
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was a 1st-century Roman general and governor of Britain best known for crushing Boudica’s revolt and consolidating Roman control over the province.
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E.
Gaius Silius
Gaius Silius was a prominent Roman senator and aristocrat best known for his scandalous affair with the empress Valeria Messalina and his subsequent execution under Emperor Claudius.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin prose writer
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Roman governor ⓘ ancient Roman author ⓘ ancient Roman engineer ⓘ ancient Roman politician ⓘ military writer ⓘ technical writer ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| culture |
Ancient Rome
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linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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| described |
construction of Roman aqueducts
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legal regulations concerning water supply in Rome ⓘ maintenance of Roman aqueducts ⓘ military stratagems from Greek and Roman history ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Roman law and administration
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hydraulic engineering ⓘ military science ⓘ |
| genre |
military treatise
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non‑fiction prose ⓘ technical treatise ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Roman aqueduct system
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Roman military tactics ⓘ |
| influenced |
later engineers studying Roman aqueducts
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later writers on military strategy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
De aquaeductu urbis Romae
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linked to:
De aquaeductu (Frontinus)
Strategemata ⓘ technical treatise on the aqueducts of Rome ⓘ writings on military strategy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Latin ⓘ |
| name |
Sextus Julius Frontinus
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linked to:
Frontinus
|
| notablePlaceOfActivity |
Roman Britain
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Rome ⓘ |
| occupation |
administrator
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author ⓘ engineer ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman provincial governor
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consul of the Roman Empire ⓘ curator aquarum ⓘ governor of Britain ⓘ water commissioner of Rome ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Emperor Domitian
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linked to:
Domitian
Emperor Vespasian ⓘ
linked to:
Vespasian
|
| timePeriod |
1st century AD
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Flavian dynasty ⓘ |
| work |
De aquaeductu urbis Romae
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linked to:
De aquaeductu (Frontinus)
Strategemata ⓘ |
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: Frontinus Description of subject: Frontinus was a Roman author, engineer, and politician best known for his technical treatise on the aqueducts of Rome and his writings on military strategy.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.