Patricius
E139780
Patricius was a Roman pagan official in North Africa best known as the father of Saint Augustine of Hippo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patricius canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1215574 — 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: Patricius Context triple: [Augustine of Hippo, father, Patricius]
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A.
Saint Petronius
Saint Petronius was a 5th-century bishop and revered Christian saint best known as the patron saint of Bologna and a key figure in the city’s religious and civic identity.
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B.
Pelagius
Pelagius was a 4th–5th century British monk and theologian best known for denying original sin and emphasizing human free will and moral responsibility in opposition to Augustine.
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C.
Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours was a 4th-century Roman soldier-turned-bishop renowned for his piety, missionary work in Gaul, and the famous legend of sharing his cloak with a beggar.
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D.
Saint Methodius
Saint Methodius was a 9th-century Byzantine missionary and scholar, venerated as one of the "Apostles to the Slavs" for his role in spreading Christianity and Slavic literacy alongside his brother Saint Cyril.
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E.
Isidore
Isidore is the given first name of the French philosopher and sociologist Auguste Comte, founder of positivism.
- 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: Patricius Target entity description: Patricius was a Roman pagan official in North Africa best known as the father of Saint Augustine of Hippo.
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A.
Saint Petronius
Saint Petronius was a 5th-century bishop and revered Christian saint best known as the patron saint of Bologna and a key figure in the city’s religious and civic identity.
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B.
Pelagius
Pelagius was a 4th–5th century British monk and theologian best known for denying original sin and emphasizing human free will and moral responsibility in opposition to Augustine.
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C.
Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours was a 4th-century Roman soldier-turned-bishop renowned for his piety, missionary work in Gaul, and the famous legend of sharing his cloak with a beggar.
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D.
Saint Methodius
Saint Methodius was a 9th-century Byzantine missionary and scholar, venerated as one of the "Apostles to the Slavs" for his role in spreading Christianity and Slavic literacy alongside his brother Saint Cyril.
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E.
Isidore
Isidore is the given first name of the French philosopher and sociologist Auguste Comte, founder of positivism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman official
ⓘ
pagan ⓘ person ⓘ |
| child | Augustine of Hippo ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman citizen ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Thagaste ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Confessions (Augustine)
ⓘ
surface form:
Confessions (Augustine of Hippo)
|
| ethnicGroup | Roman ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the father of Augustine of Hippo ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Augustine of Hippo
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Augustine
Saint Monica of Hippo ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Monica
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| occupation |
decurion
ⓘ
municipal official ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
North Africa
ⓘ
Numidia ⓘ Thagaste ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of the town council of Thagaste ⓘ |
| region | Roman North Africa ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman paganism
ⓘ
paganism ⓘ |
| religionAfterConversion | Christianity ⓘ |
| spouse |
Saint Monica of Hippo
ⓘ
surface form:
Monica of Hippo
|
| spouseOccupation | Christian laywoman ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 4th century ⓘ |
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: Patricius Description of subject: Patricius was a Roman pagan official in North Africa best known as the father of Saint Augustine of Hippo.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Patrice (given name)