Thraustila
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Thraustila was a 5th-century barbarian officer in the Western Roman Empire, best known for killing Emperor Valentinian III.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thraustila canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10138581 — 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: Thraustila Context triple: [assassination of Valentinian III, hasPerpetrator, Thraustila]
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A.
Pleistrus
Pleistrus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of Helen of Troy.
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B.
Trattinnickia
Trattinnickia is a genus of tropical trees in the frankincense and myrrh family, known for their aromatic resins and occurrence in Central and South America.
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C.
Daldinia
Daldinia is a genus of ascomycete fungi best known for its charcoal-like, concentric fruiting bodies often found on dead or dying wood.
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D.
Blissenobiarella
Blissenobiarella is a character from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation universe, known as a member of the aristocracy on the planet Kalgan who becomes romantically involved with the Mule.
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E.
Critobulus
Critobulus was an ancient Athenian known from Plato’s dialogues as the son of Crito and an associate of Socrates.
- 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: Thraustila Target entity description: Thraustila was a 5th-century barbarian officer in the Western Roman Empire, best known for killing Emperor Valentinian III.
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A.
Pleistrus
Pleistrus is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of Helen of Troy.
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B.
Trattinnickia
Trattinnickia is a genus of tropical trees in the frankincense and myrrh family, known for their aromatic resins and occurrence in Central and South America.
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C.
Daldinia
Daldinia is a genus of ascomycete fungi best known for its charcoal-like, concentric fruiting bodies often found on dead or dying wood.
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D.
Blissenobiarella
Blissenobiarella is a character from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation universe, known as a member of the aristocracy on the planet Kalgan who becomes romantically involved with the Mule.
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E.
Critobulus
Critobulus was an ancient Athenian known from Plato’s dialogues as the son of Crito and an associate of Socrates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
barbarian
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 5th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Roman imperial court
ⓘ
Western Roman army ⓘ
linked to:
Late Roman army
|
| category |
5th-century people of the Western Roman Empire
ⓘ
Assassins of heads of state ⓘ Barbarian officers in the Roman Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathOfVictim | Valentinian III ⓘ |
| employer | Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| era | end of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | barbarian origin ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| killed | Valentinian III ⓘ |
| knownFor | participation in high-level political violence ⓘ |
| languageOfContext | Latin ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableFor | killing Emperor Valentinian III ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| partOf |
Western Roman military establishment
ⓘ
linked to:
Late Roman army
|
| politicalContext | crisis of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | assassin of Valentinian III ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
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: Thraustila Description of subject: Thraustila was a 5th-century barbarian officer in the Western Roman Empire, best known for killing Emperor Valentinian III.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.