Lucius Opimius
E769822
Lucius Opimius was a Roman statesman and consul best known for violently suppressing Gaius Gracchus and his supporters, marking a key escalation in the use of force in Roman politics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lucius Opimius canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8312022 — 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: Lucius Opimius Context triple: [Gaius Gracchus, opposedBy, Lucius Opimius]
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A.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman general and statesman who became dictator, known for his civil war victory, constitutional reforms, and infamous proscriptions.
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B.
Appius Claudius Pulcher
Appius Claudius Pulcher was a prominent Roman statesman and general from the patrician Claudian family who held high offices during the late Republic.
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C.
Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius was a Roman architect known for designing the Tabularium, the official records office of ancient Rome located on the Capitoline Hill.
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Faustus Cornelius Sulla
Faustus Cornelius Sulla was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, best known as the son and political heir of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
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E.
Lucius Cornelius Cinna
Lucius Cornelius Cinna was a Roman statesman and four-time consul who led the Marian faction in the early 1st century BC and dominated Roman politics after Sulla’s first march on Rome.
- 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: Lucius Opimius Target entity description: Lucius Opimius was a Roman statesman and consul best known for violently suppressing Gaius Gracchus and his supporters, marking a key escalation in the use of force in Roman politics.
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A.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman general and statesman who became dictator, known for his civil war victory, constitutional reforms, and infamous proscriptions.
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B.
Appius Claudius Pulcher
Appius Claudius Pulcher was a prominent Roman statesman and general from the patrician Claudian family who held high offices during the late Republic.
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C.
Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius was a Roman architect known for designing the Tabularium, the official records office of ancient Rome located on the Capitoline Hill.
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D.
Faustus Cornelius Sulla
Faustus Cornelius Sulla was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, best known as the son and political heir of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
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E.
Lucius Cornelius Cinna
Lucius Cornelius Cinna was a Roman statesman and four-time consul who led the Marian faction in the early 1st century BC and dominated Roman politics after Sulla’s first march on Rome.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman consul
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Roman statesman ⓘ ancient Roman politician ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Rome ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| conflict | political crisis surrounding Gaius Gracchus ⓘ |
| consulshipYear | 121 BC ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Roman ⓘ |
| deathCause | unknown ⓘ |
| event | killing of Gaius Gracchus on the Aventine Hill ⓘ |
| governedTerritory |
Roman Republic (as consul)
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linked to:
Roman consuls
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| historicalSignificance |
marked escalation of political violence in the late Roman Republic
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precedent for using force to resolve internal political conflicts ⓘ |
| impactOnRomanLaw | strengthening practical authority of the senatus consultum ultimum ⓘ |
| knownFor |
first large-scale use of senatus consultum ultimum
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violent suppression of Gaius Gracchus and his supporters ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| legacy | symbol of senatorial repression of popularis leaders ⓘ |
| legalAction | ordered execution of many Gracchan supporters without formal trial ⓘ |
| notableFor | use of emergency powers against domestic political opponents ⓘ |
| officeAttainedBy | election by Roman popular assemblies ⓘ |
| opponent |
Gaius Gracchus
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supporters of Gaius Gracchus ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | aristocratic senatorial elite ⓘ |
| politicalFaction | optimates ⓘ |
| positionHeld | consul of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | massacre of Gracchan supporters ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | leader of senatorial forces against Gaius Gracchus ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 2nd century BC ⓘ |
| usedInstrument |
senatus consultum ultimum
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linked to:
senatus consultum
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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: Lucius Opimius Description of subject: Lucius Opimius was a Roman statesman and consul best known for violently suppressing Gaius Gracchus and his supporters, marking a key escalation in the use of force in Roman politics.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period)
subject linked to:
Basilica Opimia (earlier Republican period)