Clodius Albinus
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Clodius Albinus was a Roman general and usurper who briefly claimed the imperial title during the turbulent civil conflicts of the late 2nd century AD.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clodius Albinus canonical | 9 |
| Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9054677 — 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: Clodius Albinus Context triple: [Year of the Five Emperors, hasEmperor, Clodius Albinus]
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A.
Pescennius Niger
Pescennius Niger was a Roman general who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the civil wars of 193–194 CE before being defeated by Septimius Severus.
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Lucianus
Lucianus is an ancient Roman masculine given name that later evolved into various forms such as Lucien and Lucian.
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Bassianus
Bassianus is a noble Roman and the younger brother of Saturninus in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Titus Andronicus," whose marriage to Lavinia helps ignite the play’s violent political and familial conflicts.
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Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus
Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus was a Roman general and politician best known as one of the leading conspirators in the assassination of Julius Caesar.
- 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: Clodius Albinus Target entity description: Clodius Albinus was a Roman general and usurper who briefly claimed the imperial title during the turbulent civil conflicts of the late 2nd century AD.
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A.
Pescennius Niger
Pescennius Niger was a Roman general who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the civil wars of 193–194 CE before being defeated by Septimius Severus.
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B.
Lucianus
Lucianus is an ancient Roman masculine given name that later evolved into various forms such as Lucien and Lucian.
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C.
Bassianus
Bassianus is a noble Roman and the younger brother of Saturninus in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Titus Andronicus," whose marriage to Lavinia helps ignite the play’s violent political and familial conflicts.
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D.
Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus
Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus was a Roman general and politician best known as one of the leading conspirators in the assassination of Julius Caesar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Clodius Albinus Description of subject: Clodius Albinus was a Roman general and usurper who briefly claimed the imperial title during the turbulent civil conflicts of the late 2nd century AD.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Battle of Lugdunum 197 AD
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Battle of Lugdunum 197 AD
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Battle of Lugdunum 197 AD
subject linked to:
Battle of Lugdunum 197 AD
subject linked to:
Battle of Lugdunum 197 AD
linked to: Clodius Albinus