Cocceius
E372357
Cocceius is the family name of the Roman imperial dynasty to which the emperor Nerva belonged.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3595208 — 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: Cocceius Context triple: [Nerva, familyName, Cocceius]
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A.
Olevianus
Olevianus is the Latinized surname of Caspar Olevianus, a prominent 16th-century German Reformed theologian and co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism.
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B.
Laelianus
Laelianus was a short-lived usurper emperor of the breakaway Gallic Empire in the 3rd century Roman crisis.
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C.
Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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D.
Albinus
Albinus is an alternative name for Alcuin of York, the influential 8th-century Anglo-Saxon scholar, theologian, and advisor at Charlemagne’s court.
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E.
Sabbatius
Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
- 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: Cocceius Target entity description: Cocceius is the family name of the Roman imperial dynasty to which the emperor Nerva belonged.
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A.
Olevianus
Olevianus is the Latinized surname of Caspar Olevianus, a prominent 16th-century German Reformed theologian and co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism.
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B.
Laelianus
Laelianus was a short-lived usurper emperor of the breakaway Gallic Empire in the 3rd century Roman crisis.
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C.
Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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D.
Albinus
Albinus is an alternative name for Alcuin of York, the influential 8th-century Anglo-Saxon scholar, theologian, and advisor at Charlemagne’s court.
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E.
Sabbatius
Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman emperor
ⓘ
Roman family ⓘ gentilicium ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Roman imperial dynasty of Nerva ⓘ |
| belongsToFamily | Cocceius self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| country |
Roman Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Rome
|
| dynasticName | Nerva ⓘ |
| etymologyLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| familyName | Cocceius self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| familyNameOf |
Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder
ⓘ
surface form:
Nerva
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| hasMember |
Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder
ⓘ
surface form:
Marcus Cocceius Nerva
|
| hasNotableBearer |
Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder
ⓘ
surface form:
Marcus Cocceius Nerva
|
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| nameType | family name ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman imperial aristocracy ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 98 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 96 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| usedAs | nomen gentilicium ⓘ |
| usedBy | Roman citizens ⓘ |
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: Cocceius Description of subject: Cocceius is the family name of the Roman imperial dynasty to which the emperor Nerva belonged.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nerva
subject surface form:
Marcus Cocceius Nerva
this entity surface form:
Cocceii
this entity surface form:
Cocceii
this entity surface form:
Cocceii