Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger)
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Marcus Porcius Cato, often called Cato the Elder’s grandson and father of Cato the Younger, was a Roman statesman of the late Republic known primarily through his connection to his more famous son.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2100759 — 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: Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger) Context triple: [Cato the Younger, father, Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger)]
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Cato the Younger
Cato the Younger was a Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher renowned for his incorruptible integrity and staunch opposition to Julius Caesar’s rise to power.
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Cato
Cato was an enslaved African man who led the 1739 Stono Rebellion in colonial South Carolina, one of the largest slave uprisings in British North America.
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Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus was a prominent Roman statesman of the late Republic, best known for his influential role in the Senate and his tenure as princeps senatus.
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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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Gaius Gracchus
Gaius Gracchus was a Roman politician and reformer of the 2nd century BCE, known for his radical social and economic legislation and for intensifying the conflict between populares and optimates in the late Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger) Target entity description: Marcus Porcius Cato, often called Cato the Elder’s grandson and father of Cato the Younger, was a Roman statesman of the late Republic known primarily through his connection to his more famous son.
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Cato the Younger
Cato the Younger was a Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher renowned for his incorruptible integrity and staunch opposition to Julius Caesar’s rise to power.
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Cato
Cato was an enslaved African man who led the 1739 Stono Rebellion in colonial South Carolina, one of the largest slave uprisings in British North America.
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Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus was a prominent Roman statesman of the late Republic, best known for his influential role in the Senate and his tenure as princeps senatus.
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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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Gaius Gracchus
Gaius Gracchus was a Roman politician and reformer of the 2nd century BCE, known for his radical social and economic legislation and for intensifying the conflict between populares and optimates in the late Republic.
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Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Roman statesman
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human ⓘ member of the Roman Republic elite ⓘ |
| child | Cato the Younger ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | Roman citizen ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Roman ⓘ |
| era |
Late Roman Republic
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surface form:
late Roman Republic
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| ethnicGroup | Roman ⓘ |
| familyName |
Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Porcius Cato
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| fatherOf | Cato the Younger ⓘ |
| givenName | Marcus ⓘ |
| grandfather | Cato the Elder ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Porcia Catonis
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surface form:
Porcia (wife of Marcus Junius Brutus)
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| hasRomanCognomen | Cato ⓘ |
| hasRomanNomen | Porcius ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Roman Republican politics ⓘ |
| knownFrom | ancient literary sources about Cato the Younger and Cato the Elder ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Porcia gens
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surface form:
gens Porcia
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| nativeLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Porcia gens
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surface form:
gens Porcia
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| notableFor |
being the father of Cato the Younger
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being the grandson of Cato the Elder ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Rome ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Roman senator ⓘ |
| relative |
Cato the Elder
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Porcia Catonis ⓘ
surface form:
Porcia (sister of Cato the Younger)
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialClass | Roman aristocracy ⓘ |
| spouse | Livia Drusa ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century BC ⓘ |
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Subject: Marcus Porcius Cato (father of Cato the Younger) Description of subject: Marcus Porcius Cato, often called Cato the Elder’s grandson and father of Cato the Younger, was a Roman statesman of the late Republic known primarily through his connection to his more famous son.
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