Romulus Augustulus
E5861
Romulus Augustulus was the last de facto Western Roman emperor, whose deposition in 476 AD traditionally marks the end of the Western Roman Empire.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Romulus Augustulus canonical | 21 |
| Romulus Augustus | 3 |
| Augustulus | 1 |
| Flavius Romulus Augustus | 1 |
| Imperator Caesar Flavius Romulus Augustus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T62405 — 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: Romulus Augustulus Context triple: [Roman Empire, lastWesternEmperor, Romulus Augustulus]
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A.
Julius
Julius is the first given name of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
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B.
Emperor
The Emperor is the ceremonial monarch and symbolic head of state of Japan, representing the continuity and unity of the Japanese nation.
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C.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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E.
Paul
Paul is a masculine given name of Latin origin, widely used in many Western and Christian-influenced cultures.
- 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: Romulus Augustulus Target entity description: Romulus Augustulus was the last de facto Western Roman emperor, whose deposition in 476 AD traditionally marks the end of the Western Roman Empire.
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A.
Julius
Julius is the first given name of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
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B.
Emperor
The Emperor is the ceremonial monarch and symbolic head of state of Japan, representing the continuity and unity of the Japanese nation.
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C.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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E.
Paul
Paul is a masculine given name of Latin origin, widely used in many Western and Christian-influenced cultures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western Roman emperor
ⓘ
deposed monarch ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| afterDepositionResidence | Lucullan Villa in Campania ⓘ |
| afterDepositionStatus | lived in retirement ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Romulus Augustulus
ⓘ
Romulus Augustus ⓘ
linked to:
Romulus Augustulus
|
| appointedBy | Orestes ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | fall of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| birthDate | circa 460 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Ravenna ⓘ |
| capitalDuringReign | Ravenna ⓘ |
| chronologicalOrder | last ruler of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman ⓘ |
| coexistsWith | Eastern Roman emperor Zeno ⓘ |
| country | Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate |
after 476
ⓘ
possibly after 511 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | unknown ⓘ |
| deposedBy | Odoacer ⓘ |
| depositionDate | 4 September 476 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Roman ⓘ |
| father | Orestes ⓘ |
| fullName |
Flavius Romulus Augustus
ⓘ
linked to:
Romulus Augustulus
|
| hasCognomen | Augustus ⓘ |
| hasGivenName |
Romulus
ⓘ
linked to:
Romulus and Remus
|
| hasPraenomen | Flavius ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| legitimacyStatus | considered usurper by Julius Nepos and Eastern court ⓘ |
| mother | possibly Barbaria ⓘ |
| motherEmpire | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| nickname |
Augustulus
ⓘ
linked to:
Romulus Augustulus
|
| nicknameMeaning | little Augustus ⓘ |
| notableEvent | deposition by Odoacer in 476 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the last de facto Western Roman emperor ⓘ |
| pensionAmount | 6,000 solidi annually (traditional account) ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Western Roman emperor
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Roman Empire
|
| predecessor | Julius Nepos ⓘ |
| receivesPensionFrom | Odoacer ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 4 September 476 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 31 October 475 ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Campania
ⓘ
linked to:
Magna Graecia
Ravenna ⓘ |
| succeededByPoliticalEntity |
Kingdom of Odoacer in Italy
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Roman Empire
|
| successor | none (Western imperial office abolished) ⓘ |
| symbolicSignificance | his fall traditionally marks the end of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| title |
Imperator Caesar Flavius Romulus Augustus
ⓘ
linked to:
Romulus Augustulus
|
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: Romulus Augustulus Description of subject: Romulus Augustulus was the last de facto Western Roman emperor, whose deposition in 476 AD traditionally marks the end of the Western Roman Empire.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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