Gnaeus Papirius Carbo
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Gnaeus Papirius Carbo was a Roman statesman and consul who led the Marian faction during the civil wars of the early 1st century BC.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gnaeus Papirius Carbo canonical | 5 |
| Papirius | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2100716 — 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 Papirius Carbo Context triple: [Lucius Cornelius Sulla, opponent, Gnaeus Papirius Carbo]
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A.
Gaius Papius Mutilus
Gaius Papius Mutilus was a leading Samnite commander and prominent rebel leader during the Roman Social War (91–88 BC).
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B.
Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius was a Roman architect known for designing the Tabularium, the official records office of ancient Rome located on the Capitoline Hill.
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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.
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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E.
Lucius Scribonius Libo
Lucius Scribonius Libo was a Roman senator and statesman of the late Republic, known for his political alliances with figures such as Pompey and for his involvement in the turbulent civil conflicts of the era.
- 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 Papirius Carbo Target entity description: Gnaeus Papirius Carbo was a Roman statesman and consul who led the Marian faction during the civil wars of the early 1st century BC.
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A.
Gaius Papius Mutilus
Gaius Papius Mutilus was a leading Samnite commander and prominent rebel leader during the Roman Social War (91–88 BC).
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B.
Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius was a Roman architect known for designing the Tabularium, the official records office of ancient Rome located on the Capitoline Hill.
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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.
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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E.
Lucius Scribonius Libo
Lucius Scribonius Libo was a Roman senator and statesman of the late Republic, known for his political alliances with figures such as Pompey and for his involvement in the turbulent civil conflicts of the era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman consul
ⓘ
Roman general ⓘ ancient Roman politician ⓘ member of the Marian faction ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | political purge after Sulla's victory ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| cognomen | Carbo ⓘ |
| colleagueInOffice |
Gaius Marius the Younger
ⓘ
Gaius Norbanus ⓘ Lucius Cornelius Cinna ⓘ |
| commanded | Marian armies in Italy ⓘ |
| conflict | war against Sulla ⓘ |
| consulYear |
82 BC
ⓘ
84 BC ⓘ 85 BC ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Sicily ⓘ |
| defeatedBy |
Pompey the Great
ⓘ
surface form:
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
|
| era | late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Roman ⓘ |
| executedBy |
Pompey the Great
ⓘ
surface form:
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
|
| faction | Marian faction ⓘ |
| familyName |
Gnaeus Papirius Carbo
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Papirius
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| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commander of Marian forces ⓘ |
| nomen |
Gnaeus Papirius Carbo
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Papirius
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| notableFor |
leadership of the Marian faction after the death of Cinna
ⓘ
multiple consulships during the civil wars ⓘ |
| notableWork | defense of the Marian regime after the death of Cinna ⓘ |
| officeContested | consulship of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Pompey the Great
ⓘ
surface form:
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Lucius Cornelius Sulla ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Roman civil wars of the early 1st century BC
ⓘ
Sulla’s Second Civil War ⓘ
surface form:
Sulla's civil war
|
| politicalAlignment | populares ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | enemy of Sulla's regime ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman senator
ⓘ
consul of the Roman Republic ⓘ praetor of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| praenomen | Gnaeus ⓘ |
| residence | Rome ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| supported |
Gaius Marius the Younger
ⓘ
Lucius Cornelius Cinna ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century BC ⓘ |
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: Gnaeus Papirius Carbo Description of subject: Gnaeus Papirius Carbo was a Roman statesman and consul who led the Marian faction during the civil wars of the early 1st century BC.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Papirius
this entity surface form:
Papirius