Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
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Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was a Roman statesman and general who served as a member of the Second Triumvirate alongside Octavian and Mark Antony during the final years of the Roman Republic.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcus Aemilius Lepidus canonical | 21 |
| Lepidus | 7 |
| Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1686107 — 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: Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Context triple: [pontifex maximus, officeHolder, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus]
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A.
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was a Roman statesman, general, and close friend of Augustus who played a crucial role in the establishment of the Roman Empire through his military victories and administrative reforms.
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B.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus was a Roman senator and aristocrat of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, best known as the biological father of the emperor Nero.
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C.
Gaius
Gaius was a prominent 2nd-century Roman jurist whose legal writings, especially his Institutes, significantly shaped later Roman and European legal traditions.
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D.
Antonius
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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E.
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.
- 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: Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Target entity description: Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was a Roman statesman and general who served as a member of the Second Triumvirate alongside Octavian and Mark Antony during the final years of the Roman Republic.
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A.
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was a Roman statesman, general, and close friend of Augustus who played a crucial role in the establishment of the Roman Empire through his military victories and administrative reforms.
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B.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus was a Roman senator and aristocrat of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, best known as the biological father of the emperor Nero.
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C.
Gaius
Gaius was a prominent 2nd-century Roman jurist whose legal writings, especially his Institutes, significantly shaped later Roman and European legal traditions.
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D.
Antonius
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman general
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Roman statesman ⓘ consul of the Roman Republic ⓘ pontifex maximus ⓘ triumvir ⓘ |
| allyOf |
Julius Caesar
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Mark Antony ⓘ Augustus ⓘ
surface form:
Octavian
|
| birthPlace | Rome ⓘ |
| cognomen |
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Lepidus
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| colleagueInTriumvirate |
Mark Antony
ⓘ
Augustus ⓘ
surface form:
Octavian
|
| contemporaryOf |
Cicero
ⓘ
Julius Caesar ⓘ Mark Antony ⓘ Augustus ⓘ
surface form:
Octavian
|
| country | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Roman ⓘ |
| era | late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| faction | populares ⓘ |
| familyName | Aemilius ⓘ |
| givenName | Marcus ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| house | gens Aemilia ⓘ |
| lostPowerTo |
Augustus
ⓘ
surface form:
Octavian
|
| memberOf | Second Triumvirate ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Roman army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nobleStatus | patrician ⓘ |
| notableFor |
membership in the Second Triumvirate
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role in the final years of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| officeStartAsPontifexMaximus | 44 BC ⓘ |
| officeStartAsTriumvir | 43 BC ⓘ |
| participantIn |
campaigns in Gaul
ⓘ
campaigns in Hispania ⓘ civil wars of the Roman Republic ⓘ post-Caesarian civil war ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
consul
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governor of Gallia Transalpina ⓘ governor of Hispania ⓘ governor of Narbonese Gaul ⓘ magister equitum ⓘ pontifex maximus ⓘ triumvir rei publicae constituendae ⓘ |
| removedFromTriumvirate | 36 BC ⓘ |
| retainedTitle | pontifex maximus ⓘ |
| supported | Julius Caesar ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Marcus Aemilius Lepidus Description of subject: Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was a Roman statesman and general who served as a member of the Second Triumvirate alongside Octavian and Mark Antony during the final years of the Roman Republic.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)
this entity surface form:
Lepidus
this entity surface form:
Lepidus
subject surface form:
College of Pontiffs
this entity surface form:
Lepidus
this entity surface form:
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)
this entity surface form:
Lepidus
this entity surface form:
Lepidus
this entity surface form:
Lepidus
this entity surface form:
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir)
this entity surface form:
Lepidus