Gaius Porcius Cato
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Gaius Porcius Cato was a Roman politician and member of the prominent Porcia gens, known for his role in the late Roman Republic.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gaius Porcius Cato canonical | 1 |
| Porcius Cato | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10163367 — 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: Gaius Porcius Cato Context triple: [Porcia gens, hasNotableMember, Gaius Porcius Cato]
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A.
Lucius Porcius Cato
Lucius Porcius Cato was a Roman statesman and general of the late Republic, known for his consulship in 89 BC and his role in the Social War.
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B.
Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus
Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus was a Roman jurist and politician of the 2nd century BC, known for his legal expertise and as the son of the famous statesman Cato the Elder.
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C.
Cato the Elder
Cato the Elder was a Roman statesman, orator, and moralist known for his staunch conservatism, advocacy of traditional Roman values, and repeated calls for the destruction of Carthage.
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D.
Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger)
Marcus Porcius Cato, often called Cato the Elder’s grandson and father of Cato the Younger, was a Roman statesman of the late Republic known primarily through his connection to his more famous son.
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E.
Cato
Cato was the pseudonym used by one of the Anti-Federalist writers who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and advocated for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
- 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: Gaius Porcius Cato Target entity description: Gaius Porcius Cato was a Roman politician and member of the prominent Porcia gens, known for his role in the late Roman Republic.
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A.
Lucius Porcius Cato
Lucius Porcius Cato was a Roman statesman and general of the late Republic, known for his consulship in 89 BC and his role in the Social War.
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B.
Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus
Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus was a Roman jurist and politician of the 2nd century BC, known for his legal expertise and as the son of the famous statesman Cato the Elder.
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C.
Cato the Elder
Cato the Elder was a Roman statesman, orator, and moralist known for his staunch conservatism, advocacy of traditional Roman values, and repeated calls for the destruction of Carthage.
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D.
Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger)
Marcus Porcius Cato, often called Cato the Elder’s grandson and father of Cato the Younger, was a Roman statesman of the late Republic known primarily through his connection to his more famous son.
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E.
Cato
Cato was the pseudonym used by one of the Anti-Federalist writers who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and advocated for stronger protections of individual and states’ rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman politician
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human ⓘ |
| cognomen | Cato ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Roman culture ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Roman ⓘ |
| familyName |
Porcius Cato
ⓘ
linked to:
Gaius Porcius Cato
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Gaius ⓘ |
| hasHonorific | Cato ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Porcia gens
ⓘ
gens Porcia ⓘ
linked to:
Porcia gens
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| nativeLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Porcia family ⓘ |
| nomen | Porcius ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn | politics of the late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| politicalSphere | Roman Senate ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman consul
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Roman magistrate ⓘ |
| residence | Rome ⓘ |
| saidToBeTheSameAs | Gaius Porcius Cato (consul) ⓘ |
| socialClass | Roman nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
late Roman Republic
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linked to:
Late Roman Republic
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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: Gaius Porcius Cato Description of subject: Gaius Porcius Cato was a Roman politician and member of the prominent Porcia gens, known for his role in the late Roman Republic.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gaius Porcius Cato