Constantinus Magnus
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Constantinus Magnus, better known as Constantine the Great, was the Roman emperor who legalized Christianity and refounded Byzantium as Constantinople, profoundly shaping the future of the Roman Empire and Christian Europe.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Constantine the Great | 91 |
| Constantine I | 7 |
| Constantinus | 3 |
| Emperor Constantine I | 3 |
| Constantine | 2 |
| Constantinus Magnus canonical | 1 |
| Costantino | 1 |
| Flavius Valerius Constantinus | 1 |
| Kaiser Konstantin der Große | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T285729 — 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: Constantinus Magnus Context triple: [Constantine the Great, alsoKnownAs, Constantinus Magnus]
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Constantine
Constantine is a historic northeastern Algerian city famed for its dramatic bridges spanning deep gorges and its role as a major cultural and economic center.
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Constantius Chlorus
Constantius Chlorus was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, best known as a senior ruler in the Tetrarchy and the father of Constantine the Great.
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Diocletian
Diocletian was a Roman emperor best known for stabilizing and reorganizing the empire through sweeping administrative reforms and establishing the Tetrarchy system of rule.
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Galerius
Galerius was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries CE, best known for his role in the Tetrarchy and for intensifying the persecution of Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire.
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E.
Maximian
Maximian was a Roman emperor who ruled as co-augustus alongside Diocletian during the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, helping to stabilize and reform the empire.
- 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: Constantinus Magnus Target entity description: Constantinus Magnus, better known as Constantine the Great, was the Roman emperor who legalized Christianity and refounded Byzantium as Constantinople, profoundly shaping the future of the Roman Empire and Christian Europe.
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A.
Constantine
Constantine is a historic northeastern Algerian city famed for its dramatic bridges spanning deep gorges and its role as a major cultural and economic center.
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B.
Constantius Chlorus
Constantius Chlorus was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, best known as a senior ruler in the Tetrarchy and the father of Constantine the Great.
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C.
Diocletian
Diocletian was a Roman emperor best known for stabilizing and reorganizing the empire through sweeping administrative reforms and establishing the Tetrarchy system of rule.
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D.
Galerius
Galerius was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd and early 4th centuries CE, best known for his role in the Tetrarchy and for intensifying the persecution of Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire.
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E.
Maximian
Maximian was a Roman emperor who ruled as co-augustus alongside Diocletian during the late 3rd and early 4th centuries, helping to stabilize and reform the empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
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: Constantinus Magnus Description of subject: Constantinus Magnus, better known as Constantine the Great, was the Roman emperor who legalized Christianity and refounded Byzantium as Constantinople, profoundly shaping the future of the Roman Empire and Christian Europe.
Referenced by (110)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Constantine I
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