Servius Cornelius Cethegus
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Servius Cornelius Cethegus was a Roman statesman from the prominent patrician Cornelii family who held high magistracies during the Roman Republic.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornelii Cethegi | 2 |
| Servius Cornelius Cethegus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8915321 — 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: Servius Cornelius Cethegus Context triple: [gens Cornelia, hasMember, Servius Cornelius Cethegus]
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A.
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura was a Roman senator and conspirator best known as one of the leading figures in the Catilinarian conspiracy against the late Roman Republic.
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B.
Gaius Papius Mutilus
Gaius Papius Mutilus was a leading Samnite commander and prominent rebel leader during the Roman Social War (91–88 BC).
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C.
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther was a 1st-century BC Roman senator and consul known for his political alliance with Pompey and involvement in the late Republic’s power struggles.
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D.
Aulus
Aulus is a common Roman praenomen (given name) frequently used among men in ancient Rome.
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E.
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus was a renowned early Roman statesman and general celebrated for his integrity, frugality, and role in resisting King Pyrrhus of Epirus.
- 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: Servius Cornelius Cethegus Target entity description: Servius Cornelius Cethegus was a Roman statesman from the prominent patrician Cornelii family who held high magistracies during the Roman Republic.
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A.
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura was a Roman senator and conspirator best known as one of the leading figures in the Catilinarian conspiracy against the late Roman Republic.
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B.
Gaius Papius Mutilus
Gaius Papius Mutilus was a leading Samnite commander and prominent rebel leader during the Roman Social War (91–88 BC).
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C.
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther was a 1st-century BC Roman senator and consul known for his political alliance with Pompey and involvement in the late Republic’s power struggles.
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D.
Aulus
Aulus is a common Roman praenomen (given name) frequently used among men in ancient Rome.
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E.
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus
Gaius Fabricius Luscinus was a renowned early Roman statesman and general celebrated for his integrity, frugality, and role in resisting King Pyrrhus of Epirus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman politician
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human ⓘ member of the Cornelii ⓘ patrician ⓘ |
| cognomen | Cethegus ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Roman culture ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Roman ⓘ |
| familyName | Cornelius ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| memberOf | gens Cornelia ⓘ |
| nomen | Cornelius ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a patrician member of the Cornelii family
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holding high magistracies in the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman magistrate
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high office in the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| praenomen | Servius ⓘ |
| socialClass | patrician class ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Roman Republic ⓘ |
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: Servius Cornelius Cethegus Description of subject: Servius Cornelius Cethegus was a Roman statesman from the prominent patrician Cornelii family who held high magistracies during the Roman Republic.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Servius Cornelius Cethegus
subject linked to:
Cornelia (through Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
linked to: Servius Cornelius Cethegus