Antonius
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Antonius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen gentilicium) most famously borne by the general and politician Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius).
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Antonius canonical | 24 |
| Antoniusz | 1 |
| Antōnios | 1 |
| Gaius Antonius | 1 |
| Latin Antonius | 1 |
| Marcus Antonius Creticus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1676170 — 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: Antonius Context triple: [Antoni, derivedFrom, Antonius]
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A.
Julius
Julius is the family name (nomen) of the ancient Roman Julian clan, most famously borne by figures such as Gaius Julius Caesar and later adopted by emperors like Tiberius as part of their imperial identity.
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B.
Julius
Julius is the main character of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," navigating a post-scarcity future society centered around a radically transformed Disney World.
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C.
Julius
Julius is the first given name of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
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D.
Mark Antony
Mark Antony was a prominent Roman general and statesman, ally of Julius Caesar and lover of Cleopatra, whose power struggle with Octavian culminated in his defeat at the Battle of Actium.
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E.
Gaius
Gaius was a prominent 2nd-century Roman jurist whose legal writings, especially his Institutes, significantly shaped later Roman and European legal traditions.
- 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: Antonius Target entity description: Antonius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen gentilicium) most famously borne by the general and politician Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius).
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A.
Julius
Julius is the first given name of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
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B.
Julius
Julius is the family name (nomen) of the ancient Roman Julian clan, most famously borne by figures such as Gaius Julius Caesar and later adopted by emperors like Tiberius as part of their imperial identity.
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C.
Julius
Julius is the main character of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom," navigating a post-scarcity future society centered around a radically transformed Disney World.
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D.
Mark Antony
Mark Antony was a prominent Roman general and statesman, ally of Julius Caesar and lover of Cleopatra, whose power struggle with Octavian culminated in his defeat at the Battle of Actium.
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E.
Gaius
Gaius was a prominent 2nd-century Roman jurist whose legal writings, especially his Institutes, significantly shaped later Roman and European legal traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman family name
ⓘ
nomen gentilicium ⓘ |
| associatedWithGens | gens Antonia ⓘ |
| belongsToNamingSystem | Roman naming conventions ⓘ |
| category |
Ancient Roman names
ⓘ
Latin-language surnames ⓘ Roman nomina ⓘ |
| derivativeNames |
Antoine
ⓘ
Anton ⓘ Antoni ⓘ Antonio ⓘ Anton ⓘ
surface form:
Antoniu
Anton ⓘ
surface form:
Antun
|
| hasCognomenBearers |
Antonius Felix
ⓘ
Marcus Antonius Primus ⓘ |
| hasFeminineForm | Antonia ⓘ |
| isLatinFormOf |
Anthony
ⓘ
Antony ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Latin ⓘ |
| mostFamouslyBorneBy |
Mark Antony
ⓘ
surface form:
Marcus Antonius
Mark Antony ⓘ |
| nameType | gentilicium ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfUse |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| usedAsNomenOf |
Antonius
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Gaius Antonius
Iullus Antonius ⓘ Lucius Antonius ⓘ Mark Antony ⓘ
surface form:
Marcus Antonius
|
| usedByGender | male ⓘ |
| usedBySocialClass | Roman citizens ⓘ |
| usedIn | ancient Rome ⓘ |
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: Antonius Description of subject: Antonius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen gentilicium) most famously borne by the general and politician Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius).
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Antoniusz
this entity surface form:
Marcus Antonius Creticus
this entity surface form:
Gaius Antonius
this entity surface form:
Antōnios
this entity surface form:
Latin Antonius
subject surface form:
Ancient Roman nomen