Silverius
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Silverius was a 6th-century pope whose short pontificate was marked by political conflict with the Byzantine Empire and his eventual deposition and exile.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silverius canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12844068 — 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: Silverius Context triple: [Pope Silverius, birthName, Silverius]
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A.
Ianthe
Ianthe is a central fictional character associated with the fairy realm in works featuring the figure of Queen Mab.
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B.
Phrontis
Phrontis is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the father of the Trojan War hero Euphorbus.
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C.
Philyra
Philyra is an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the centaur Chiron.
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D.
Evenus
Evenus is a figure in Greek mythology, a king of Aetolia and son of the war god Ares, best known as the father of Marpessa.
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E.
Sylvana
Sylvana is a feminine given name, often considered a variant of Silvana, typically associated with meanings related to forests or woodland.
- 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: Silverius Target entity description: Silverius was a 6th-century pope whose short pontificate was marked by political conflict with the Byzantine Empire and his eventual deposition and exile.
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A.
Ianthe
Ianthe is a central fictional character associated with the fairy realm in works featuring the figure of Queen Mab.
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B.
Phrontis
Phrontis is a figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the father of the Trojan War hero Euphorbus.
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C.
Philyra
Philyra is an Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology best known as the mother of the centaur Chiron.
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D.
Evenus
Evenus is a figure in Greek mythology, a king of Aetolia and son of the war god Ares, best known as the father of Marpessa.
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E.
Sylvana
Sylvana is a feminine given name, often considered a variant of Silvana, typically associated with meanings related to forests or woodland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Pope
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| accusation | treason in favor of the Goths ⓘ |
| appointedBy | King Theodahad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Byzantine–Gothic political conflict ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | starvation ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 6th century ⓘ |
| conflict |
Byzantine Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Empress Theodora NERFINISHED ⓘ Pope Vigilius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2 December 537 ⓘ |
| endOfTermAsPope | March 537 ⓘ |
| endTime | 537 ⓘ |
| father | Pope Hormisdas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feastDay | 20 June ⓘ |
| givenName | Silverius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
bishop
ⓘ
clergyman ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Saint ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix |
Pope
ⓘ
Saint ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
deposition as pope
ⓘ
exile from Rome ⓘ |
| papacyDuring | Gothic War (535–554) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| papalName | Silverius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Palmarola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfExile | Palmarola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Pope
ⓘ
surface form:
Bishop of Rome
Pope of the Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Pope Agapetus I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
Christianity ⓘ |
| removedBy | General Belisarius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startOfTermAsPope | 8 June 536 ⓘ |
| startTime | 536 ⓘ |
| successor | Pope Vigilius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
|
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: Silverius Description of subject: Silverius was a 6th-century pope whose short pontificate was marked by political conflict with the Byzantine Empire and his eventual deposition and exile.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.