Suetonius
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Suetonius was a Roman historian and biographer best known for his work "The Twelve Caesars," which provides detailed accounts of the lives of Rome’s early emperors.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Suetonius canonical | 41 |
| Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus | 2 |
| Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars | 2 |
| Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars | 1 |
| Suetonius’s writings | 1 |
| The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius | 1 |
| works of Suetonius | 1 |
| writings of Suetonius | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T518375 — 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: Suetonius Context triple: [Caligula, historicalSource, Suetonius]
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Tacitus
Tacitus was a prominent Roman historian and senator best known for his detailed and critical accounts of the early Roman Empire, including references to figures such as Pontius Pilate and early Christians.
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B.
Livy
Livy was the affectionate nickname of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of American author Mark Twain and an important influence on his life and work.
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C.
Livy
Livy was a renowned Roman historian best known for his monumental work "Ab Urbe Condita," which chronicled the history of Rome from its legendary founding through his own time.
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D.
Lactantius
Lactantius was an early 4th-century Christian author and apologist, best known for his work "Divine Institutes" and for serving as an advisor and tutor in the court of Emperor Constantine.
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E.
Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger was a prominent Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwright who served as advisor to Emperor Nero and authored influential works on ethics and practical wisdom.
- 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: Suetonius Target entity description: Suetonius was a Roman historian and biographer best known for his work "The Twelve Caesars," which provides detailed accounts of the lives of Rome’s early emperors.
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A.
Tacitus
Tacitus was a prominent Roman historian and senator best known for his detailed and critical accounts of the early Roman Empire, including references to figures such as Pontius Pilate and early Christians.
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B.
Livy
Livy was the affectionate nickname of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of American author Mark Twain and an important influence on his life and work.
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C.
Livy
Livy was a renowned Roman historian best known for his monumental work "Ab Urbe Condita," which chronicled the history of Rome from its legendary founding through his own time.
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D.
Lactantius
Lactantius was an early 4th-century Christian author and apologist, best known for his work "Divine Institutes" and for serving as an advisor and tutor in the court of Emperor Constantine.
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E.
Seneca the Younger
Seneca the Younger was a prominent Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwright who served as advisor to Emperor Nero and authored influential works on ethics and practical wisdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman historian
ⓘ
ancient Roman writer ⓘ author ⓘ biographer ⓘ |
| birthDate | circa 69 CE ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Roman Empire
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possibly Hippo Regius in North Africa ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf | Pliny the Younger ⓘ |
| correspondedWith | Pliny the Younger ⓘ |
| deathDate | after 122 CE ⓘ |
| employer | Roman imperial administration ⓘ |
| era | Silver Age of Latin literature ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
ⓘ
history ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Renaissance historians
ⓘ
medieval biographical writing ⓘ modern biographies of Roman emperors ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| name |
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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linked to:
Suetonius
|
| notableWork |
De vita Caesarum
ⓘ
The Twelve Caesars ⓘ
linked to:
De vita Caesarum
|
| occupation |
archivist
ⓘ
secretary ⓘ |
| periodDescribed |
Flavian dynasty
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Julio-Claudian dynasty ⓘ Year of the Four Emperors ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
magister epistularum
ⓘ
linked to:
magister officiorum (disputed in sources)
secretary of correspondence to Emperor Hadrian ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Emperor Hadrian
ⓘ
linked to:
Hadrian
Emperor Trajan ⓘ
linked to:
Trajan
|
| subjectOf | classical scholarship ⓘ |
| usesSources |
imperial archives
ⓘ
official documents ⓘ personal anecdotes ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
anecdotal
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topical rather than strictly chronological ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
Augustus
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Caligula ⓘ Claudius ⓘ Domitian ⓘ Galba ⓘ Julius Caesar ⓘ Nero ⓘ Otho ⓘ Tiberius ⓘ Titus ⓘ Vespasian ⓘ Vitellius ⓘ |
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: Suetonius Description of subject: Suetonius was a Roman historian and biographer best known for his work "The Twelve Caesars," which provides detailed accounts of the lives of Rome’s early emperors.
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Suetonius
linked to: Suetonius
linked to: Suetonius
subject linked to:
Caesar’s comet
linked to: Suetonius
linked to: Suetonius
linked to: Suetonius
linked to: Suetonius
subject linked to:
Scribonia (second wife of Augustus)
subject linked to:
Octavia (wife of Nero)