Faustus Cornelius Sulla
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Faustus Cornelius Sulla was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, best known as the son and political heir of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Faustus Cornelius Sulla canonical | 7 |
| Cornelii Sullae | 1 |
| Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2100724 — 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: Faustus Cornelius Sulla Context triple: [Lucius Cornelius Sulla, child, Faustus Cornelius Sulla]
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A.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman general and statesman who became dictator, known for his civil war victory, constitutional reforms, and infamous proscriptions.
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B.
Gaius Marius
Gaius Marius was a powerful Roman general and statesman whose military reforms and unprecedented seven consulships profoundly reshaped the late Roman Republic.
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C.
Quintus Lutatius Catulus
Quintus Lutatius Catulus was a prominent late Roman Republic statesman and general, known for his conservative politics, rivalry with Gaius Marius, and role in the Social and civil wars.
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D.
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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E.
Pompey the Great
Pompey the Great was a prominent Roman general and statesman of the late Republic, known for his military conquests, political alliance and rivalry with Julius Caesar, and pivotal role in Rome’s transition from republic to empire.
- 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: Faustus Cornelius Sulla Target entity description: Faustus Cornelius Sulla was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, best known as the son and political heir of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
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A.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman general and statesman who became dictator, known for his civil war victory, constitutional reforms, and infamous proscriptions.
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B.
Gaius Marius
Gaius Marius was a powerful Roman general and statesman whose military reforms and unprecedented seven consulships profoundly reshaped the late Roman Republic.
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C.
Quintus Lutatius Catulus
Quintus Lutatius Catulus was a prominent late Roman Republic statesman and general, known for his conservative politics, rivalry with Gaius Marius, and role in the Social and civil wars.
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D.
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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E.
Pompey the Great
Pompey the Great was a prominent Roman general and statesman of the late Republic, known for his military conquests, political alliance and rivalry with Julius Caesar, and pivotal role in Rome’s transition from republic to empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman nobleman
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ancient Roman politician ⓘ member of the Roman senatorial class ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cornelii family
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Pompeian faction ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution after defeat ⓘ |
| cognomen | Sulla ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Africa ⓘ |
| era | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Roman ⓘ |
| faction | optimates ⓘ |
| familyName |
Aulus Cornelius Sulla
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surface form:
Cornelius Sulla
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| father | Lucius Cornelius Sulla ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw |
Pompey the Great
ⓘ
surface form:
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
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| givenName | Faustus ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
military officer
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politician ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in battle ⓘ |
| militaryRank | legatus ⓘ |
| mother | Caecilia Metella Dalmatica ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Faustus Cornelius Sulla
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Cornelii Sullae
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| nomen | Cornelius ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being son and political heir of dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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marriage alliance with Pompey the Great ⓘ service as governor of Africa ⓘ |
| opponent | Gaius Julius Caesar ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Caesar’s civil war
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surface form:
Caesar’s Civil War
Third Mithridatic War ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | aristocratic conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
governor of Africa
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praetor ⓘ propraetor ⓘ quaestor ⓘ |
| praenomen | Faustus ⓘ |
| relative |
Fausta Cornelia
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Pompey the Great ⓘ
surface form:
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus (son) ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialRank | patrician ⓘ |
| spouse |
Pompeia
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Pompeia Magna ⓘ
surface form:
Pompeia, daughter of Pompey the Great
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| supported |
Pompey the Great
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the senatorial party in the late Republic ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| wasOnSideOf |
Caesar’s civil war
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surface form:
Pompeians in Caesar’s Civil War
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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: Faustus Cornelius Sulla Description of subject: Faustus Cornelius Sulla was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, best known as the son and political heir of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cornelii Sullae
this entity surface form:
Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix