Sallust
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Sallust was a Roman historian and politician of the late Republic, best known for his monographs on the Catilinarian Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War, which pioneered a concise and morally charged style of historical writing.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sallust canonical | 6 |
| Sallustius | 2 |
| Gaius Sallustius Crispus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1236919 — 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.
Target entity: Sallust Context triple: [Tacitus, influencedBy, Sallust]
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Tacitus
Tacitus was a prominent Roman historian and senator best known for his detailed and critical accounts of the early Roman Empire, including references to figures such as Pontius Pilate and early Christians.
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Livy
Livy was the affectionate nickname of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of American author Mark Twain and an important influence on his life and work.
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Livy
Livy was a renowned Roman historian best known for his monumental work "Ab Urbe Condita," which chronicled the history of Rome from its legendary founding through his own time.
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Cassius Dio
Cassius Dio was a Roman statesman and historian best known for his extensive work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome from its legendary origins through the early 3rd century CE.
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Gaius Terentius Varro
Gaius Terentius Varro was a Roman consul and military commander best known for co-leading the Roman forces that suffered a devastating defeat to Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae during the Second Punic War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Sallust Target entity description: Sallust was a Roman historian and politician of the late Republic, best known for his monographs on the Catilinarian Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War, which pioneered a concise and morally charged style of historical writing.
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A.
Tacitus
Tacitus was a prominent Roman historian and senator best known for his detailed and critical accounts of the early Roman Empire, including references to figures such as Pontius Pilate and early Christians.
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B.
Livy
Livy was the affectionate nickname of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of American author Mark Twain and an important influence on his life and work.
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C.
Livy
Livy was a renowned Roman historian best known for his monumental work "Ab Urbe Condita," which chronicled the history of Rome from its legendary founding through his own time.
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D.
Cassius Dio
Cassius Dio was a Roman statesman and historian best known for his extensive work "Roman History," which chronicles Rome from its legendary origins through the early 3rd century CE.
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E.
Gaius Terentius Varro
Gaius Terentius Varro was a Roman consul and military commander best known for co-leading the Roman forces that suffered a devastating defeat to Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae during the Second Punic War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman historian
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Roman politician ⓘ ancient Roman author ⓘ |
| accusation | extortion in Africa Nova ⓘ |
| birthYear | 0086 BC ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| cognomen | Crispus ⓘ |
| deathYear | 0035 BC ⓘ |
| era |
Late Roman Republic
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surface form:
late Roman Republic
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| expelledFrom | Roman Senate ⓘ |
| expulsionReason | charges of immorality ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sallust
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Sallustius
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| fullName |
Sallust
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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| genre |
historiography
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monograph ⓘ |
| givenName | Gaius ⓘ |
| governedProvince | Africa Nova ⓘ |
| historicalPeriodDescribed | 1st century BC Roman politics ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ammianus Marcellinus
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Renaissance humanism ⓘ
surface form:
Renaissance humanists
Tacitus ⓘ |
| knownFor |
concise historical style
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monograph on the Catilinarian Conspiracy ⓘ monograph on the Jugurthine War ⓘ morally charged historical narrative ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| laterLifeActivity | literary work ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Roman Republican historiography ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bellum Catilinae
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Jugurthine War ⓘ
surface form:
Bellum Iugurthinum
Histories ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
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politician ⓘ provincial governor ⓘ |
| officeHeld |
governor of Africa Nova
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praetor ⓘ tribune of the plebs ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | popularis ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
North Africa
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Rome ⓘ |
| restoredBy | Julius Caesar ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Julius Caesar ⓘ |
| style |
archaism
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brevity ⓘ moralizing tone ⓘ |
| subjectOfWork |
In Catilinam (Catilinarian Orations)
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surface form:
Catilinarian Conspiracy
Jugurthine War ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Sallust Description of subject: Sallust was a Roman historian and politician of the late Republic, best known for his monographs on the Catilinarian Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War, which pioneered a concise and morally charged style of historical writing.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.