Vegetius
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Vegetius was a late Roman writer best known for his military treatise "Epitoma Rei Militaris," a key source on Roman warfare and military organization.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vegetius canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15012349 — 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: Vegetius Context triple: [De militia Romana, usesSource, Vegetius]
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A.
Julius Capitolinus
Julius Capitolinus is a purported Roman biographer traditionally credited as one of the authors of the Historia Augusta, a late antique collection of imperial biographies.
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B.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a 1st-century Roman historian best known for his Latin history of Alexander the Great, *Historiae Alexandri Magni*.
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C.
Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus
Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus was a Roman statesman from the patrician Sulpicia family who held high magistracies during the early Roman Republic.
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D.
Orosius
Orosius was a 5th-century Christian historian and theologian, best known for his work "Historiarum Adversus Paganos," which defended Christianity by interpreting Roman and world history through a providential lens.
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E.
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus was a 4th-century Roman historian and former soldier whose surviving work, the *Res Gestae*, is a major source for the history of the late Roman Empire.
- 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: Vegetius Target entity description: Vegetius was a late Roman writer best known for his military treatise "Epitoma Rei Militaris," a key source on Roman warfare and military organization.
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A.
Julius Capitolinus
Julius Capitolinus is a purported Roman biographer traditionally credited as one of the authors of the Historia Augusta, a late antique collection of imperial biographies.
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B.
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a 1st-century Roman historian best known for his Latin history of Alexander the Great, *Historiae Alexandri Magni*.
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C.
Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus
Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus was a Roman statesman from the patrician Sulpicia family who held high magistracies during the early Roman Republic.
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D.
Orosius
Orosius was a 5th-century Christian historian and theologian, best known for his work "Historiarum Adversus Paganos," which defended Christianity by interpreting Roman and world history through a providential lens.
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E.
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus was a 4th-century Roman historian and former soldier whose surviving work, the *Res Gestae*, is a major source for the history of the late Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.