Publilia (wife of Cicero)
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Publilia (wife of Cicero) was the second wife of the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, known primarily from brief mentions in his letters and later biographical traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Publilia (wife of Cicero) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8618656 — 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: Publilia (wife of Cicero) Context triple: [Publilia, saidToBeTheSameAs, Publilia (wife of Cicero)]
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A.
Tullia Ciceronis
Tullia Ciceronis was the beloved daughter of the Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, remembered for her close relationship with her father and her early death, which deeply affected him.
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B.
Atia Balba Caesonia
Atia Balba Caesonia was a Roman noblewoman of the late Republic, best known as the mother of the future emperor Augustus and niece of Julius Caesar.
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C.
Porcia Catonis
Porcia Catonis was a Roman noblewoman best known as the stoic and politically engaged wife of Brutus, one of Julius Caesar’s assassins.
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D.
Lex Plautia Papiria
Lex Plautia Papiria was a Roman law enacted during the Social War that granted Roman citizenship to certain Italian allies who laid down their arms and registered with a Roman magistrate.
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E.
Fulvia Pia
Fulvia Pia was a Roman woman of the 2nd century AD, best known as the mother of the future emperor Septimius Severus.
- 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: Publilia (wife of Cicero) Target entity description: Publilia (wife of Cicero) was the second wife of the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, known primarily from brief mentions in his letters and later biographical traditions.
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A.
Tullia Ciceronis
Tullia Ciceronis was the beloved daughter of the Roman orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, remembered for her close relationship with her father and her early death, which deeply affected him.
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B.
Atia Balba Caesonia
Atia Balba Caesonia was a Roman noblewoman of the late Republic, best known as the mother of the future emperor Augustus and niece of Julius Caesar.
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C.
Porcia Catonis
Porcia Catonis was a Roman noblewoman best known as the stoic and politically engaged wife of Brutus, one of Julius Caesar’s assassins.
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D.
Lex Plautia Papiria
Lex Plautia Papiria was a Roman law enacted during the Social War that granted Roman citizenship to certain Italian allies who laid down their arms and registered with a Roman magistrate.
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E.
Fulvia Pia
Fulvia Pia was a Roman woman of the 2nd century AD, best known as the mother of the future emperor Septimius Severus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman woman
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historical person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Cicero family ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Roman ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| historicalEvidence | sparsely attested in primary sources ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
later biographical traditions about Cicero
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letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero ⓘ |
| languageContext | Latin ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married (to Marcus Tullius Cicero) ⓘ |
| marriageContext | late life of Marcus Tullius Cicero ⓘ |
| marriageTo |
Marcus Tullius Cicero
ⓘ
linked to:
Cicero
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| notableFor | being the second wife of Marcus Tullius Cicero ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | second wife of Marcus Tullius Cicero ⓘ |
| residence | Rome ⓘ |
| sourceType | epistolary evidence ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
Marcus Tullius Cicero
ⓘ
linked to:
Cicero
Publilia (wife of Cicero) ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century BC ⓘ |
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: Publilia (wife of Cicero) Description of subject: Publilia (wife of Cicero) was the second wife of the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero, known primarily from brief mentions in his letters and later biographical traditions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Publilia (wife of Cicero)