Sulpicius
E314769
Sulpicius is the Roman family name (nomen) of the gens to which the emperor Galba belonged.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sulpicius canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2966461 — 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: Sulpicius Context triple: [Galba, nomen, Sulpicius]
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A.
Sulpicius Severus
Sulpicius Severus was a late 4th- to early 5th-century Christian writer and historian best known for his influential hagiographical and historical works in Latin.
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B.
Marathonius
Marathonius is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of Deucalion, the legendary survivor of the great flood.
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C.
Vigilius
Vigilius was a 6th-century pope of the Catholic Church whose tumultuous pontificate was marked by the Three Chapters Controversy and conflicts with the Byzantine emperor Justinian I.
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D.
Sidonius Apollinaris
Sidonius Apollinaris was a 5th-century Gallo-Roman aristocrat, bishop, and letter-writer whose works provide a key eyewitness account of the final decades of the Western Roman Empire.
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E.
Orosius
Orosius was a 5th-century Christian historian and theologian, best known for his work "Historiarum Adversus Paganos," which defended Christianity by interpreting Roman and world history through a providential lens.
- 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: Sulpicius Target entity description: Sulpicius is the Roman family name (nomen) of the gens to which the emperor Galba belonged.
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A.
Sulpicius Severus
Sulpicius Severus was a late 4th- to early 5th-century Christian writer and historian best known for his influential hagiographical and historical works in Latin.
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B.
Marathonius
Marathonius is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of Deucalion, the legendary survivor of the great flood.
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C.
Vigilius
Vigilius was a 6th-century pope of the Catholic Church whose tumultuous pontificate was marked by the Three Chapters Controversy and conflicts with the Byzantine emperor Justinian I.
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D.
Sidonius Apollinaris
Sidonius Apollinaris was a 5th-century Gallo-Roman aristocrat, bishop, and letter-writer whose works provide a key eyewitness account of the final decades of the Western Roman Empire.
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E.
Orosius
Orosius was a 5th-century Christian historian and theologian, best known for his work "Historiarum Adversus Paganos," which defended Christianity by interpreting Roman and world history through a providential lens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman family name
ⓘ
Roman nomen ⓘ gentilicium ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Servius Sulpicius Galba
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman emperor Galba
Roman naming conventions ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
Ancient Roman nomina
ⓘ
Latin-language surnames ⓘ |
| borneBy | Servius Sulpicius Galba ⓘ |
| derivesFrom | gens Sulpicia ⓘ |
| etymologicalForm | Sulpicius (Latin nominative singular) ⓘ |
| functionInName | indicates membership in gens Sulpicia ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | masculine name ⓘ |
| hasFeminineForm | Sulpicia ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Servius Sulpicius Galba
ⓘ
surface form:
Galba
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| historicalPeriod |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf | gens Sulpicia ⓘ |
| nameType | nomen gentilicium ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman tria nomina system ⓘ |
| regionOfUse | Roman world ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedAs | family identifier ⓘ |
| usedBySocialClass | Roman citizens ⓘ |
| usedInCulture |
Roman Antiquity
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surface form:
ancient Rome
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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: Sulpicius Description of subject: Sulpicius is the Roman family name (nomen) of the gens to which the emperor Galba belonged.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.