Longinus
E1020898
Longinus is a cognomen used by several notable ancient Romans, most famously associated with figures involved in the late Roman Republic and early Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Longinus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13050364 — 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: Longinus Context triple: [Lucius Cassius Longinus, hasAdditionalName, Longinus]
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A.
Longinus
Longinus is the name traditionally given to the ancient Greek literary critic credited with the treatise "On the Sublime," a foundational work in the study of rhetoric and aesthetics.
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B.
Ossiano
Ossiano is an acclaimed fine-dining seafood restaurant in Dubai known for its immersive underwater aquarium setting and innovative tasting menus.
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C.
Deimachus
Deimachus is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the son of Enarete.
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D.
Tydeus
Tydeus is a fierce warrior of Greek mythology, one of the Seven Against Thebes and father of the hero Diomedes.
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E.
Stylius
Stylius is a consumer products brand likely focused on personal or household items within the Consumer Products Division’s portfolio.
- 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: Longinus Target entity description: Longinus is a cognomen used by several notable ancient Romans, most famously associated with figures involved in the late Roman Republic and early Empire.
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A.
Longinus
Longinus is the name traditionally given to the ancient Greek literary critic credited with the treatise "On the Sublime," a foundational work in the study of rhetoric and aesthetics.
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B.
Ossiano
Ossiano is an acclaimed fine-dining seafood restaurant in Dubai known for its immersive underwater aquarium setting and innovative tasting menus.
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C.
Deimachus
Deimachus is a relatively obscure figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the son of Enarete.
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D.
Tydeus
Tydeus is a fierce warrior of Greek mythology, one of the Seven Against Thebes and father of the hero Diomedes.
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E.
Stylius
Stylius is a consumer products brand likely focused on personal or household items within the Consumer Products Division’s portfolio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ancient Roman cognomen ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | assassination of Julius Caesar ⓘ |
| associatedGens | Cassia gens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Ancient Roman names
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Latin-language surnames ⓘ |
| etymology | possibly derived from Latin "longus" meaning "long" ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | masculine name ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early Roman Empire
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late Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| nameType | cognomen ⓘ |
| notableBearerRole |
Roman consul
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Roman governor ⓘ Roman jurist ⓘ Roman senator ⓘ philosopher ⓘ rhetorician ⓘ |
| onomaComponent | cognomen in Roman tria nomina system ⓘ |
| partOfRomanNamingSystem | tria nomina ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Cassius Longinus (jurist)
NERFINISHED
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Cassius Longinus (nephew of Cassius the assassin) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cassius Longinus (philosopher and rhetorician) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaius Cassius Longinus NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaius Cassius Longinus (assassin of Julius Caesar) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 171 BC) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 30 BC) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gnaeus Cassius Longinus NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucius Cassius Longinus NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucius Cassius Longinus (consul 107 BC) NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucius Cassius Longinus (praetor 66 BC) NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Cassius Longinus NERFINISHED ⓘ Publius Cassius Longinus NERFINISHED ⓘ Quintus Cassius Longinus NERFINISHED ⓘ Quintus Cassius Longinus (governor of Hispania Ulterior) NERFINISHED ⓘ Quintus Cassius Longinus (tribune of the plebs) NERFINISHED ⓘ Titus Cassius Longinus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBySocialClass |
Roman aristocracy
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Roman senatorial class ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Roman Empire
NERFINISHED
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Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Longinus Description of subject: Longinus is a cognomen used by several notable ancient Romans, most famously associated with figures involved in the late Roman Republic and early Empire.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.