M. Claudius Fronto
E267336
M. Claudius Fronto was a Roman military commander and senator of the 2nd century AD, noted for his leadership in Rome’s eastern campaigns against Parthia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| M. Claudius Fronto canonical | 1 |
| Marcus Claudius Fronto | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2376752 — 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: M. Claudius Fronto Context triple: [Roman–Parthian War of 161–166, commander, M. Claudius Fronto]
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A.
Gaius Aurelius Cotta
Gaius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman statesman and consul of the 3rd century BC, noted for his role in Roman politics and military affairs.
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B.
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus
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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C.
Lex Plautia Papiria
Lex Plautia Papiria was a Roman law enacted during the Social War that granted Roman citizenship to certain Italian allies who laid down their arms and registered with a Roman magistrate.
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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.
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.
- 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: M. Claudius Fronto Target entity description: M. Claudius Fronto was a Roman military commander and senator of the 2nd century AD, noted for his leadership in Rome’s eastern campaigns against Parthia.
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A.
Gaius Aurelius Cotta
Gaius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman statesman and consul of the 3rd century BC, noted for his role in Roman politics and military affairs.
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B.
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus
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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C.
Lex Plautia Papiria
Lex Plautia Papiria was a Roman law enacted during the Social War that granted Roman citizenship to certain Italian allies who laid down their arms and registered with a Roman magistrate.
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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.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
2nd-century Roman person
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Roman general ⓘ Roman senator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 2nd century AD ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Roman ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| militaryConflict |
Roman–Parthian Wars
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surface form:
Roman–Parthian conflicts
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| name |
M. Claudius Fronto
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Marcus Claudius Fronto
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| notableFor | leadership in Rome’s eastern campaigns against Parthia ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
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senator ⓘ |
| opponent | Parthian Empire ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Roman senator ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
Roman military
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Roman politics ⓘ |
| timePeriod | High Roman Empire ⓘ |
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: M. Claudius Fronto Description of subject: M. Claudius Fronto was a Roman military commander and senator of the 2nd century AD, noted for his leadership in Rome’s eastern campaigns against Parthia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Marcus Claudius Fronto