Lucius Cestius
E418710
Lucius Cestius was an ancient Roman figure, likely a magistrate or builder, commemorated as the namesake of the historic Ponte Cestio bridge in Rome.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lucius Cestius canonical | 2 |
| Cestius | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4175764 — 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 Cestius Context triple: [Ponte Cestio, namedAfter, Lucius Cestius]
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A.
Lucius Scribonius Libo
Lucius Scribonius Libo was a Roman senator and statesman of the late Republic, known for his political alliances with figures such as Pompey and for his involvement in the turbulent civil conflicts of the era.
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B.
Cassius Apronianus
Cassius Apronianus was a Roman senator and provincial governor of the 2nd century, best known as the father of the historian Cassius Dio.
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C.
Lucilius Bassus
Lucilius Bassus was a 1st-century Roman general who played a key role in suppressing the Jewish Revolt under Emperor Vespasian.
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D.
Flaccus Albinus
Flaccus Albinus is another name for Alcuin of York, the influential Anglo-Saxon scholar and advisor at the court of Charlemagne during the Carolingian Renaissance.
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E.
Lucius Cassius Longinus
Lucius Cassius Longinus was a Roman senator and politician of the early 1st century AD, known for his connections to the imperial family and involvement in Julio-Claudian court politics.
- 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 Cestius Target entity description: Lucius Cestius was an ancient Roman figure, likely a magistrate or builder, commemorated as the namesake of the historic Ponte Cestio bridge in Rome.
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A.
Lucius Scribonius Libo
Lucius Scribonius Libo was a Roman senator and statesman of the late Republic, known for his political alliances with figures such as Pompey and for his involvement in the turbulent civil conflicts of the era.
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B.
Cassius Apronianus
Cassius Apronianus was a Roman senator and provincial governor of the 2nd century, best known as the father of the historian Cassius Dio.
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C.
Lucilius Bassus
Lucilius Bassus was a 1st-century Roman general who played a key role in suppressing the Jewish Revolt under Emperor Vespasian.
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D.
Flaccus Albinus
Flaccus Albinus is another name for Alcuin of York, the influential Anglo-Saxon scholar and advisor at the court of Charlemagne during the Carolingian Renaissance.
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E.
Lucius Cassius Longinus
Lucius Cassius Longinus was a Roman senator and politician of the early 1st century AD, known for his connections to the imperial family and involvement in Julio-Claudian court politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman person
ⓘ
namesake ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Tiber Island
ⓘ
Trastevere ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ponte Cestio
ⓘ
surface form:
Pons Cestius
Tiber ⓘ
surface form:
Tiber River
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| commemoratedBy | Ponte Cestio ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Roman Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Rome
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| culture | Roman ⓘ |
| familyName |
Lucius Cestius
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Cestius
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Lucius ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| hasPart | Ponte Cestio ⓘ |
| inferredRole | patron of bridge construction ⓘ |
| name | Lucius Cestius self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | being namesake of Ponte Cestio ⓘ |
| notableWork | Ponte Cestio ⓘ |
| occupation |
builder
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magistrate ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Roman magistrate ⓘ |
| residence | Rome ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| workLocation | Rome ⓘ |
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 Cestius Description of subject: Lucius Cestius was an ancient Roman figure, likely a magistrate or builder, commemorated as the namesake of the historic Ponte Cestio bridge in Rome.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cestius