Porcius
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Porcius is the ancient Roman gens (clan) to which the statesman and philosopher Cato the Younger and his daughter Porcia Catonis belonged.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Porcius canonical | 14 |
| Porcius (nomen) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9778294 — 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: Porcius Context triple: [Porcia Catonis, familyName, Porcius]
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A.
Sempronio
Sempronio is one of Calisto’s servants in the Spanish tragicomedy "La Celestina," known for his complicity with the procuress Celestina and his self-serving betrayal.
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Thascius
Thascius is the family name of the early Christian bishop and martyr Cyprian of Carthage.
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Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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Lutatius
Lutatius was an ancient Roman family (gens) whose members, including Quintus Lutatius Catulus, held prominent political and military roles in the Roman Republic.
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Quintus
Quintus is a traditional Latin praenomen (given name) commonly used in ancient Rome, often indicating the fifth-born child or associated with the number five.
- 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: Porcius Target entity description: Porcius is the ancient Roman gens (clan) to which the statesman and philosopher Cato the Younger and his daughter Porcia Catonis belonged.
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A.
Sempronio
Sempronio is one of Calisto’s servants in the Spanish tragicomedy "La Celestina," known for his complicity with the procuress Celestina and his self-serving betrayal.
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B.
Thascius
Thascius is the family name of the early Christian bishop and martyr Cyprian of Carthage.
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C.
Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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D.
Lutatius
Lutatius was an ancient Roman family (gens) whose members, including Quintus Lutatius Catulus, held prominent political and military roles in the Roman Republic.
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E.
Quintus
Quintus is a traditional Latin praenomen (given name) commonly used in ancient Rome, often indicating the fifth-born child or associated with the number five.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Porcius Description of subject: Porcius is the ancient Roman gens (clan) to which the statesman and philosopher Cato the Younger and his daughter Porcia Catonis belonged.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Porcius