Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman general and statesman who became dictator, known for his civil war victory, constitutional reforms, and infamous proscriptions.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla canonical | 57 |
| Sulla | 5 |
| Cornelii Sullae | 3 |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix | 2 |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla (the younger) | 1 |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla Faustus | 1 |
| Lucius Cornelius Sulla commanded the Roman forces | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T284557 — 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: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Context triple: [Roman Republic, notableFigure, Lucius Cornelius Sulla]
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A.
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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B.
Julius
Julius is the first given name of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
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C.
César
César is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries and derived from the Roman family name Caesar.
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D.
Roman aediles
Roman aediles were elected magistrates of ancient Rome responsible for overseeing public buildings, markets, games, and the maintenance of order in the city.
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E.
Cicero
Cicero was a renowned Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher whose speeches and writings profoundly influenced Latin literature and Western political thought.
- 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: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
Julius
Julius is the first given name of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
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C.
César
César is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries and derived from the Roman family name Caesar.
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D.
Roman aediles
Roman aediles were elected magistrates of ancient Rome responsible for overseeing public buildings, markets, games, and the maintenance of order in the city.
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E.
Cicero
Cicero was a renowned Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher whose speeches and writings profoundly influenced Latin literature and Western political thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman general
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Roman statesman ⓘ dictator of the Roman Republic ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthName | Lucius Cornelius Sulla self-link ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| child |
Cornelia Postuma
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Faustus Cornelius Sulla ⓘ |
| cognomen |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Sulla
|
| consulshipYear |
-0080
ⓘ
-0088 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | -0138-01-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | -0078-01-01 ⓘ |
| dictatorshipEndYear | -0079 ⓘ |
| dictatorshipStartYear | -0082 ⓘ |
| era | Late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| familyName | Cornelius ⓘ |
| givenName | Lucius ⓘ |
| implementedReform |
expansion of the Roman Senate
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reorganization of the courts (quaestiones perpetuae) ⓘ restriction of the powers of the tribunes of the plebs ⓘ strengthening of senatorial control over magistracies ⓘ |
| introducedPractice | large-scale political proscriptions ⓘ |
| knownFor |
constitutional reforms strengthening the Roman Senate
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instituting proscriptions against political enemies ⓘ marching his army on Rome ⓘ victory in the first Roman civil war against Gaius Marius and his supporters ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf | gens Cornelia ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Chaeronea (First Mithridatic War)
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Battle of Orchomenus ⓘ Battle of the Colline Gate ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
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politician ⓘ |
| opponent |
Gaius Marius
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Gnaeus Papirius Carbo ⓘ Lucius Cornelius Cinna ⓘ Mithridates VI Eupator ⓘ
surface form:
Mithridates VI of Pontus
|
| participatedIn |
First Mithridatic War
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Social War ⓘ Sullan civil war ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Rome ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Puteoli ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman consul
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dictator of Rome ⓘ praetor ⓘ proconsul ⓘ propraetor ⓘ quaestor ⓘ |
| religion | Roman polytheism ⓘ |
| resignedOffice | dictatorship ⓘ |
| retiredTo | Puteoli ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Aelia
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Caecilia Metella Dalmatica ⓘ Cloelia ⓘ Ilia (first wife) ⓘ Valeria ⓘ |
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: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Description of subject: Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman general and statesman who became dictator, known for his civil war victory, constitutional reforms, and infamous proscriptions.
Referenced by (70)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix
this entity surface form:
Lucius Cornelius Sulla commanded the Roman forces
this entity surface form:
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (the younger)
subject surface form:
Mithridatic Wars