Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder
E373457
Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder was a prominent Roman senator and jurist of the 1st century AD, known as the father of the future emperor Nerva.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcus Cocceius Nerva (the Elder) | 3 |
| Marcus Cocceius Nerva | 2 |
| Nerva | 2 |
| Marcus Cocceius Nerva (emperor) | 1 |
| Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3595241 — 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: Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder Context triple: [Nerva, father, Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder]
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A.
Nerva
Nerva was a Roman emperor (reigning 96–98 AD) whose brief rule initiated the era of the "Five Good Emperors" and marked a transition to more stable, adoptive succession.
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B.
Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder
Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder was a Roman senator and general of Spanish origin, best known as the father of the emperor Trajan.
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C.
Titus Aelius Antoninus
Titus Aelius Antoninus was a Roman imperial prince, the son of Emperor Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder, and the father of Empress Faustina the Younger.
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D.
Antoninus Pius
Antoninus Pius was a Roman emperor of the 2nd century known for his peaceful and prosperous reign, legal reforms, and role in continuing the adoptive succession of the "Five Good Emperors."
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E.
Helvius Pertinax the Younger
Helvius Pertinax the Younger was the son of the Roman emperor Pertinax, briefly associated with the imperial family during the turbulent Year of the Five Emperors in 193 AD.
- 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: Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder Target entity description: Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder was a prominent Roman senator and jurist of the 1st century AD, known as the father of the future emperor Nerva.
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A.
Nerva
Nerva was a Roman emperor (reigning 96–98 AD) whose brief rule initiated the era of the "Five Good Emperors" and marked a transition to more stable, adoptive succession.
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B.
Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder
Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder was a Roman senator and general of Spanish origin, best known as the father of the emperor Trajan.
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C.
Titus Aelius Antoninus
Titus Aelius Antoninus was a Roman imperial prince, the son of Emperor Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder, and the father of Empress Faustina the Younger.
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D.
Antoninus Pius
Antoninus Pius was a Roman emperor of the 2nd century known for his peaceful and prosperous reign, legal reforms, and role in continuing the adoptive succession of the "Five Good Emperors."
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E.
Helvius Pertinax the Younger
Helvius Pertinax the Younger was the son of the Roman emperor Pertinax, briefly associated with the imperial family during the turbulent Year of the Five Emperors in 193 AD.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman jurist
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Roman senator ⓘ jurist ⓘ member of the Roman Senate ⓘ |
| child | Nerva ⓘ |
| chronologicalContext | 1st century Roman Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Roman culture ⓘ |
| era | 1st century AD ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Roman ⓘ |
| familyName | Cocceius ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Imperial Roman aristocracy
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman senatorial order
|
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Cocceius
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surface form:
Cocceii
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| notableFor | being the father of the Roman emperor Nerva ⓘ |
| occupation |
jurist
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politician ⓘ senator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman senator
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ |
| relative | Nerva ⓘ |
| residence | Rome ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialClass |
Roman aristocracy
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Roman senator class ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
Roman law
ⓘ
Roman politics ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Julio-Claudian dynasty
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early Roman Empire ⓘ |
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: Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder Description of subject: Marcus Cocceius Nerva the Elder was a prominent Roman senator and jurist of the 1st century AD, known as the father of the future emperor Nerva.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nerva
this entity surface form:
Marcus Cocceius Nerva
this entity surface form:
Marcus Cocceius Nerva
this entity surface form:
Marcus Cocceius Nerva (emperor)
this entity surface form:
Nerva
subject surface form:
Nerva
this entity surface form:
Marcus Cocceius Nerva (the Elder)
this entity surface form:
Marcus Cocceius Nerva (the Elder)
this entity surface form:
Marcus Cocceius Nerva (the Elder)