Probinus
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Probinus is a Late Roman aristocrat of the Anicii family, likely referring to Anicius Probinus, a prominent senator and consul in the Western Roman Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Probinus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9311216 — 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: Probinus Context triple: [Anicius Probinus (probable), hasGivenName, Probinus]
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A.
Critobulus
Critobulus was an ancient Athenian known from Plato’s dialogues as the son of Crito and an associate of Socrates.
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B.
Leptiminus
Leptiminus was an important ancient coastal city in the Roman province of Byzacena, located in what is now modern-day Tunisia.
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C.
Notoncus
Notoncus is a genus of ants within the subfamily Formicinae, known for species commonly found in Australia and nearby regions.
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D.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
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E.
Sabellic
Sabellic is an alternative name for the Sabellian group of ancient Italic languages spoken in central and southern Italy before the dominance of Latin.
- 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: Probinus Target entity description: Probinus is a Late Roman aristocrat of the Anicii family, likely referring to Anicius Probinus, a prominent senator and consul in the Western Roman Empire.
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A.
Critobulus
Critobulus was an ancient Athenian known from Plato’s dialogues as the son of Crito and an associate of Socrates.
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B.
Leptiminus
Leptiminus was an important ancient coastal city in the Roman province of Byzacena, located in what is now modern-day Tunisia.
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C.
Notoncus
Notoncus is a genus of ants within the subfamily Formicinae, known for species commonly found in Australia and nearby regions.
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D.
Oreortyx
Oreortyx is a small genus of New World quails best known for the mountain quail, a ground-dwelling game bird native to western North America.
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E.
Sabellic
Sabellic is an alternative name for the Sabellian group of ancient Italic languages spoken in central and southern Italy before the dominance of Latin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Late Roman aristocrat
ⓘ
Roman senator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Roman culture ⓘ |
| era | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFullName |
Anicius Probinus
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linked to:
Anicius Probinus (probable)
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| languageUsed | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Anicii family
ⓘ
linked to:
Anician family
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| nobleFamily |
gens Anicia
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linked to:
Anicii
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| notableFor |
membership in the powerful Anicii family
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political influence in the Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Roman consul ⓘ |
| socialClass | Roman aristocracy ⓘ |
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: Probinus Description of subject: Probinus is a Late Roman aristocrat of the Anicii family, likely referring to Anicius Probinus, a prominent senator and consul in the Western Roman Empire.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.