Pontius Telesinus
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Pontius Telesinus was a Samnite military leader and general who played a key role in the final resistance against Roman domination during the Social War and subsequent conflicts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pontius Telesinus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8924815 — 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: Pontius Telesinus Context triple: [Battle of the Colline Gate, opposedBy, Pontius Telesinus]
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A.
Glaucus Pontius
Glaucus Pontius is a figure from ancient tradition distinguished by the epithet “Pontius,” which associates him with the sea or maritime realms.
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B.
Coponius
Coponius was a Roman prefect appointed by Emperor Augustus to govern Judea after the deposition of Herod Archelaus.
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C.
Lucius Cestius
Lucius Cestius was an ancient Roman figure, likely a magistrate or builder, commemorated as the namesake of the historic Ponte Cestio bridge in Rome.
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D.
Pilate
Pilate is a commune in northern Haiti known for its rural character and location within the Nord department.
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E.
Syrianus
Syrianus was a prominent 5th-century Neoplatonist philosopher and head of the Athenian Platonic Academy, known especially as the teacher of Proclus and commentator on Aristotle and Plato.
- 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: Pontius Telesinus Target entity description: Pontius Telesinus was a Samnite military leader and general who played a key role in the final resistance against Roman domination during the Social War and subsequent conflicts.
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A.
Glaucus Pontius
Glaucus Pontius is a figure from ancient tradition distinguished by the epithet “Pontius,” which associates him with the sea or maritime realms.
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B.
Coponius
Coponius was a Roman prefect appointed by Emperor Augustus to govern Judea after the deposition of Herod Archelaus.
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C.
Lucius Cestius
Lucius Cestius was an ancient Roman figure, likely a magistrate or builder, commemorated as the namesake of the historic Ponte Cestio bridge in Rome.
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D.
Pilate
Pilate is a commune in northern Haiti known for its rural character and location within the Nord department.
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E.
Syrianus
Syrianus was a prominent 5th-century Neoplatonist philosopher and head of the Athenian Platonic Academy, known especially as the teacher of Proclus and commentator on Aristotle and Plato.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Samnite military leader
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general ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| activeInConflict |
Social War
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subsequent conflicts following the Social War ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Samnite ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | key leader in the last major armed resistance of the Samnites to Rome ⓘ |
| militaryRole | commander of Samnite forces ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in the final Samnite resistance against Rome
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role in the Social War against Rome ⓘ |
| opposed | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| politicalGoal | resistance to Roman domination ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Italy ⓘ |
| sideInConflict | Italian allies against Rome ⓘ |
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: Pontius Telesinus Description of subject: Pontius Telesinus was a Samnite military leader and general who played a key role in the final resistance against Roman domination during the Social War and subsequent conflicts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.