Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus
E234933
Cornelii Lentuli family member
ancient Roman senator
consul of the Roman Republic
member of the Roman patriciate
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was a Roman senator of the late Republic who served as consul in 56 BC and belonged to the prominent patrician Cornelii Lentuli family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus | 2 |
| Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2098750 — 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: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus Context triple: [Scribonia, spouse, Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus]
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A.
Quintus Poppaedius Silo
Quintus Poppaedius Silo was a leading Marsic noble and military commander who became one of the principal leaders of the Italian allies against Rome during the Social War.
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B.
Lucius Marcius Philippus
Lucius Marcius Philippus was a Roman senator and consul of the late Republic, notable as the stepfather of the future emperor Augustus.
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C.
Gnaeus Egnatius
Gnaeus Egnatius was a Roman proconsul and road-builder best known for initiating the construction of the Via Egnatia across the Balkans in the 2nd century BCE.
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D.
Dio Cassius
Dio Cassius was a Roman statesman and historian best known for his extensive work "Roman History," which chronicles the Roman Empire from its founding to his own time.
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E.
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a prominent Roman general and statesman of the 3rd century BC, renowned for his campaigns against Hannibal and the capture of Syracuse during the Second Punic War.
- 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: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus Target entity description: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was a Roman senator of the late Republic who served as consul in 56 BC and belonged to the prominent patrician Cornelii Lentuli family.
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A.
Quintus Poppaedius Silo
Quintus Poppaedius Silo was a leading Marsic noble and military commander who became one of the principal leaders of the Italian allies against Rome during the Social War.
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B.
Lucius Marcius Philippus
Lucius Marcius Philippus was a Roman senator and consul of the late Republic, notable as the stepfather of the future emperor Augustus.
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C.
Gnaeus Egnatius
Gnaeus Egnatius was a Roman proconsul and road-builder best known for initiating the construction of the Via Egnatia across the Balkans in the 2nd century BCE.
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D.
Dio Cassius
Dio Cassius was a Roman statesman and historian best known for his extensive work "Roman History," which chronicles the Roman Empire from its founding to his own time.
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E.
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a prominent Roman general and statesman of the 3rd century BC, renowned for his campaigns against Hannibal and the capture of Syracuse during the Second Punic War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cornelii Lentuli family member
ⓘ
ancient Roman senator ⓘ consul of the Roman Republic ⓘ member of the Roman patriciate ⓘ |
| agnomen | Marcellinus ⓘ |
| aristocraticFamily |
Gens Cornelia
ⓘ
surface form:
gens Cornelia
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| cognomen | Lentulus ⓘ |
| consulAlongside | Lucius Marcius Philippus ⓘ |
| consulshipYear | 56 BC ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| era | late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| family |
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus
ⓘ
surface form:
Cornelii Lentuli
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Gnaeus ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Latin ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| nomen | Cornelius ⓘ |
| notableFor | consulship in 56 BC ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman Senate ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman consul
ⓘ
Roman senator ⓘ |
| praenomen | Gnaeus ⓘ |
| socialClass | patrician ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century BC ⓘ |
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: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus Description of subject: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was a Roman senator of the late Republic who served as consul in 56 BC and belonged to the prominent patrician Cornelii Lentuli family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus