Flaccus
E264918
Flaccus is the cognomen of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in English as Horace.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flaccus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2388046 — 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: Flaccus Context triple: [Horatius, cognomen, Flaccus]
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A.
Hannibalianus
Hannibalianus was a 4th-century Roman nobleman and member of Constantine the Great’s family, briefly elevated with a royal title during the emperor’s eastern campaigns before being executed in the dynastic purges of 337.
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B.
Marcius Turbo
Marcius Turbo was a prominent Roman general and governor under Emperor Trajan and Hadrian, noted for his successful military campaigns in the early 2nd century CE.
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C.
Quintus
Quintus is a traditional Latin praenomen (given name) commonly used in ancient Rome, often indicating the fifth-born child or associated with the number five.
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D.
Julius Civilis
Julius Civilis was a 1st-century Batavian chieftain and Roman military officer who led a major revolt against Roman rule along the Rhine frontier.
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E.
Latinus
Latinus is a figure from Greek and Roman mythology, often depicted as a king in Italy associated with the early legends surrounding the founding of Rome.
- 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: Flaccus Target entity description: Flaccus is the cognomen of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in English as Horace.
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A.
Hannibalianus
Hannibalianus was a 4th-century Roman nobleman and member of Constantine the Great’s family, briefly elevated with a royal title during the emperor’s eastern campaigns before being executed in the dynastic purges of 337.
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B.
Marcius Turbo
Marcius Turbo was a prominent Roman general and governor under Emperor Trajan and Hadrian, noted for his successful military campaigns in the early 2nd century CE.
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C.
Quintus
Quintus is a traditional Latin praenomen (given name) commonly used in ancient Rome, often indicating the fifth-born child or associated with the number five.
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D.
Julius Civilis
Julius Civilis was a 1st-century Batavian chieftain and Roman military officer who led a major revolt against Roman rule along the Rhine frontier.
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E.
Latinus
Latinus is a figure from Greek and Roman mythology, often depicted as a king in Italy associated with the early legends surrounding the founding of Rome.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | cognomen ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Horace ⓘ |
| associatedWithCulture | Roman culture ⓘ |
| associatedWithLiteraryFigure |
Horace
ⓘ
surface form:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
|
| associatedWithProfessionOfBearer | poet ⓘ |
| belongsToNamingConvention | Roman naming conventions ⓘ |
| category | Ancient Roman cognomina ⓘ |
| componentPosition | third name in a Roman tria nomina ⓘ |
| denotes |
Horace
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman poet Horace
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| etymologicalMeaning | flabby or floppy (Latin origin) ⓘ |
| gender | masculine name form ⓘ |
| hasEnglishForm | Flaccus self-link ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Horace
ⓘ
surface form:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
|
| historicalUsagePeriod |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| isPartOfFullNameOf | Horace ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Latin ⓘ |
| nameElementOf |
Horace
ⓘ
surface form:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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| nameType | Roman cognomen ⓘ |
| partOfRomanName |
Horace
ⓘ
surface form:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedAs | family cognomen ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Horace
ⓘ
surface form:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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| usedForIdentificationOf | Roman gentes members ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Roman Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
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: Flaccus Description of subject: Flaccus is the cognomen of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in English as Horace.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.