Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius
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Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius, better known as Gordian III, was a Roman emperor who ruled from 238 to 244 AD, ascending the throne as a teenager during the Crisis of the Third Century.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius canonical | 2 |
| Antonius Gordianus | 1 |
| Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius | 1 |
| Marcus Antonius Gordianus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3932274 — 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 Antonius Gordianus Pius Context triple: [Gordian III, fullName, Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius]
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A.
Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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B.
Didius Julianus
Didius Julianus was a short-lived Roman emperor in 193 AD, infamous for effectively purchasing the imperial throne during the chaotic Year of the Five Emperors.
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Marcianus
Marcianus was a late Roman imperial prince, known primarily as the son of Western Roman Emperor Anthemius.
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Annius
Annius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen gentilicium) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Republic and Empire.
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E.
Vetranio
Vetranio was a 4th-century Roman general who briefly ruled as a usurper emperor in the Balkans before abdicating in favor of Constantius II.
- 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 Antonius Gordianus Pius Target entity description: Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius, better known as Gordian III, was a Roman emperor who ruled from 238 to 244 AD, ascending the throne as a teenager during the Crisis of the Third Century.
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A.
Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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B.
Didius Julianus
Didius Julianus was a short-lived Roman emperor in 193 AD, infamous for effectively purchasing the imperial throne during the chaotic Year of the Five Emperors.
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C.
Marcianus
Marcianus was a late Roman imperial prince, known primarily as the son of Western Roman Emperor Anthemius.
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D.
Annius
Annius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen gentilicium) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Republic and Empire.
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E.
Vetranio
Vetranio was a 4th-century Roman general who briefly ruled as a usurper emperor in the Balkans before abdicating in favor of Constantius II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Antonius Gordianus Pius Description of subject: Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius, better known as Gordian III, was a Roman emperor who ruled from 238 to 244 AD, ascending the throne as a teenager during the Crisis of the Third Century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gordian III
subject surface form:
Gordian III
this entity surface form:
Marcus Antonius Gordianus
this entity surface form:
Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius
this entity surface form:
Antonius Gordianus