Servius Tullius
E138975
Servius Tullius was the legendary sixth king of Rome, traditionally credited with major social and political reforms including the reorganization of Roman society into classes and the expansion of the city’s boundaries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Servius Tullius canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1126951 — 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: Servius Tullius Context triple: [Roman Kingdom, hasKing, Servius Tullius]
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A.
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus was the legendary fifth king of Rome, traditionally credited with major urban and religious developments that helped transform the early city-state.
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B.
Numa Pompilius
Numa Pompilius was the legendary second king of Rome, renowned for his wisdom, piety, and for establishing many of Rome’s early religious and legal institutions.
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C.
Tullus Hostilius
Tullus Hostilius was the legendary third king of Rome, traditionally remembered for his warlike reign and the destruction of Alba Longa.
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D.
Ancus Marcius
Ancus Marcius was the legendary fourth king of Rome, traditionally credited with expanding the city’s territory and founding its port at Ostia.
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E.
Numitor
Numitor is a legendary king of Alba Longa in Roman mythology, best known as the deposed ruler whose grandsons Romulus and Remus ultimately restored his throne.
- 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: Servius Tullius Target entity description: Servius Tullius was the legendary sixth king of Rome, traditionally credited with major social and political reforms including the reorganization of Roman society into classes and the expansion of the city’s boundaries.
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A.
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus was the legendary fifth king of Rome, traditionally credited with major urban and religious developments that helped transform the early city-state.
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B.
Numa Pompilius
Numa Pompilius was the legendary second king of Rome, renowned for his wisdom, piety, and for establishing many of Rome’s early religious and legal institutions.
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C.
Tullus Hostilius
Tullus Hostilius was the legendary third king of Rome, traditionally remembered for his warlike reign and the destruction of Alba Longa.
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D.
Ancus Marcius
Ancus Marcius was the legendary fourth king of Rome, traditionally credited with expanding the city’s territory and founding its port at Ostia.
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E.
Numitor
Numitor is a legendary king of Alba Longa in Roman mythology, best known as the deposed ruler whose grandsons Romulus and Remus ultimately restored his throne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
King of Rome
ⓘ
legendary Roman king ⓘ |
| associatedLegend |
birth as a slave or of servile origin
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head surrounded by flames as a child ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Aventine Hill
ⓘ
Roman census ⓘ Servian Constitution (traditional) ⓘ Servian Wall ⓘ
surface form:
Servian Wall (city circuit traditionally linked to him)
Temple of Diana on the Aventine (traditional foundation) ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman ⓘ |
| country | Roman Kingdom ⓘ |
| creditedWith |
Servian reforms
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construction of the Servian Wall (traditional attribution) ⓘ creation of rural tribes ⓘ division of the city into urban tribes ⓘ expansion of Rome’s boundaries ⓘ extension of Roman citizenship to some Latins ⓘ introduction of census-based classes ⓘ reorganization of Roman society into classes ⓘ reorganization of comitia centuriata ⓘ |
| deathDate | c. 535 BC (traditional) ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Rome ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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surface form:
Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Roman Antiquities
Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Roman Kingdom
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman kings
|
| era | Roman Kingdom ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| governmentForm | monarchy ⓘ |
| killedBy |
Tullia Minor
ⓘ
surface form:
Tullia Minor (traditional account)
supporters of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (traditional account) ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| legendaryStatus | historic existence uncertain ⓘ |
| mother | Ocrisia ⓘ |
| mythology | Roman mythology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expansion of Roman territory
ⓘ
military organization reforms ⓘ political reforms ⓘ social reforms ⓘ |
| positionHeld | sixth King of Rome ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus
ⓘ
surface form:
Tarquinius Priscus
|
| reignEnd | c. 535 BC (traditional) ⓘ |
| reignStart | c. 578 BC (traditional) ⓘ |
| religion | Roman religion (traditional attribution) ⓘ |
| residence | Rome ⓘ |
| spouse |
Tarquinia
ⓘ
daughter of Tarquinius Priscus ⓘ |
| successor | Lucius Tarquinius Superbus ⓘ |
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: Servius Tullius Description of subject: Servius Tullius was the legendary sixth king of Rome, traditionally credited with major social and political reforms including the reorganization of Roman society into classes and the expansion of the city’s boundaries.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Temple of Diana (Aventine Hill)
subject surface form:
Temple of Diana (Aventine Hill)