Quirinus (through Romulus)
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Quirinus (through Romulus) is an ancient Roman god closely linked with the deified Romulus and associated with the Roman state, civic life, and the warrior-citizen.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quirinus (through Romulus) canonical | 1 |
| Romulus after deification | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3314796 — 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: Quirinus (through Romulus) Context triple: [Tatius, associatedWithDeity, Quirinus (through Romulus)]
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A.
Romulus
Romulus is the legendary first king of Rome, famed in Roman mythology as one of the twin brothers raised by a she-wolf who went on to establish the city that became the heart of the Roman civilization.
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B.
Romula
Romula was the mother of Roman Emperor Galerius, a peasant woman from Dacia Ripensis who was later honored with significant status during her son's reign.
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C.
Numa Pompilius
Numa Pompilius was the legendary second king of Rome, renowned for his wisdom, piety, and for establishing many of Rome’s early religious and legal institutions.
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D.
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.
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E.
Numitor
Numitor is a legendary king of Alba Longa in Roman mythology, best known as the deposed ruler whose grandsons Romulus and Remus ultimately restored his throne.
- 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: Quirinus (through Romulus) Target entity description: Quirinus (through Romulus) is an ancient Roman god closely linked with the deified Romulus and associated with the Roman state, civic life, and the warrior-citizen.
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A.
Romulus
Romulus is the legendary first king of Rome, famed in Roman mythology as one of the twin brothers raised by a she-wolf who went on to establish the city that became the heart of the Roman civilization.
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B.
Romula
Romula was the mother of Roman Emperor Galerius, a peasant woman from Dacia Ripensis who was later honored with significant status during her son's reign.
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C.
Numa Pompilius
Numa Pompilius was the legendary second king of Rome, renowned for his wisdom, piety, and for establishing many of Rome’s early religious and legal institutions.
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D.
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.
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E.
Numitor
Numitor is a legendary king of Alba Longa in Roman mythology, best known as the deposed ruler whose grandsons Romulus and Remus ultimately restored his throne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman god
ⓘ
deified hero ⓘ state deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jupiter
ⓘ
Mars ⓘ Roman citizenship ⓘ Roman kingship through Romulus ⓘ Roman state ⓘ Romulus ⓘ civic life ⓘ warrior-citizen ⓘ |
| category |
Roman gods
ⓘ
deified humans in Roman religion ⓘ |
| cultCenter | Quirinal Hill ⓘ |
| cultPeriod |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Kingdom ⓘ Roman Republic ⓘ |
| cultType | state cult ⓘ |
| domain |
Roman community
ⓘ
organized citizen body ⓘ peaceful aspects of war ⓘ |
| epithet |
Romulus
ⓘ
surface form:
Romulus Quirinus
|
| etymologicallyAssociatedWith |
Romans
ⓘ
surface form:
Quirites
|
| festivalDate | February 17 ⓘ |
| gender | male deity ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
civic-military deity
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guardian of the Roman state ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
connection to citizen-soldiers
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connection to peaceful civic order ⓘ |
| hasFestival | Quirinalia ⓘ |
| hasTemple | Temple of Quirinus ⓘ |
| identifiedWith | deified Romulus ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| linkedToMyth |
apotheosis of Romulus
ⓘ
founding of Rome ⓘ |
| memberOf | Archaic Roman triad ⓘ |
| mythologicalStatus | posthumous form of Romulus ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
Romans
ⓘ
surface form:
Quirites
|
| religion | ancient Roman religion ⓘ |
| role |
protector of Roman curiae
ⓘ
protector of assemblies of the people ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
Roman people as a collective
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unity of Roman citizens ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
Quirinus (through Romulus)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Romulus after deification
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| worshippedBy |
Roman citizens
ⓘ
Roman warrior class ⓘ |
| worshipPlace | 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: Quirinus (through Romulus) Description of subject: Quirinus (through Romulus) is an ancient Roman god closely linked with the deified Romulus and associated with the Roman state, civic life, and the warrior-citizen.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Quirinus
this entity surface form:
Romulus after deification