Optila
E347863
Optila was a Hun bodyguard who, along with fellow conspirators, carried out the assassination of Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III in 455 AD.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Optila canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3329799 — 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: Optila Context triple: [Valentinian III, assassinatedBy, Optila]
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A.
Totila
Totila was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths best known for his dynamic military leadership and central role in the later stages of the Gothic War against the Byzantine Empire.
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B.
Laitila
Laitila is a small town and municipality in southwestern Finland known for its rural landscapes and local food and beverage industries.
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C.
Paltamo
Paltamo is a small municipality in the Kainuu region of Finland, known as the birthplace of the national poet Eino Leino.
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D.
Sastamala
Sastamala is a town and municipality in southwestern Finland known for its historical churches, cultural heritage, and scenic lakeside landscapes.
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E.
Kallio
Kallio is a Finnish surname most notably borne by Kyösti Kallio, who served as the fourth President of Finland.
- 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: Optila Target entity description: Optila was a Hun bodyguard who, along with fellow conspirators, carried out the assassination of Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III in 455 AD.
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A.
Totila
Totila was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths best known for his dynamic military leadership and central role in the later stages of the Gothic War against the Byzantine Empire.
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B.
Laitila
Laitila is a small town and municipality in southwestern Finland known for its rural landscapes and local food and beverage industries.
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C.
Paltamo
Paltamo is a small municipality in the Kainuu region of Finland, known as the birthplace of the national poet Eino Leino.
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D.
Sastamala
Sastamala is a town and municipality in southwestern Finland known for its historical churches, cultural heritage, and scenic lakeside landscapes.
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E.
Kallio
Kallio is a Finnish surname most notably borne by Kyösti Kallio, who served as the fourth President of Finland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hun
ⓘ
bodyguard ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 5th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Huns
ⓘ
Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| coConspiratorWith | Thraustila ⓘ |
| coParticipantIn | plot against Valentinian III ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Hunnic Empire ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 455 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Hun ⓘ |
| eventLocation | Campus Martius ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| killed | Valentinian III ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latinized form ⓘ |
| mentionedInSource |
Chronicle of Hydatius
ⓘ
Prosper of Aquitaine ⓘ |
| methodOfKilling | stabbed Valentinian III ⓘ |
| notableFor | assassination of Valentinian III ⓘ |
| occupation | bodyguard ⓘ |
| participantIn | assassination of Valentinian III ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rome ⓘ |
| politicalContext | crisis of the Western Roman Empire ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | assassin of the emperor ⓘ |
| servedAsBodyguardFor | Valentinian III ⓘ |
| typeOfDeathInflicted | homicide ⓘ |
| victim |
Valentinian III
ⓘ
surface form:
Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III
|
| yearOfEvent | 455 ⓘ |
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: Optila Description of subject: Optila was a Hun bodyguard who, along with fellow conspirators, carried out the assassination of Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III in 455 AD.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.