Sicinius Velutus
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Sicinius Velutus is a tribune of the people and a key political antagonist to the title character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Coriolanus."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sicinius Velutus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5110185 — 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: Sicinius Velutus Context triple: [Coriolanus, mainCharacter, Sicinius Velutus]
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A.
Gaius Papius Mutilus
Gaius Papius Mutilus was a leading Samnite commander and prominent rebel leader during the Roman Social War (91–88 BC).
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B.
Aulus
Aulus is a common Roman praenomen (given name) frequently used among men in ancient Rome.
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C.
Gnaeus Papirius Carbo
Gnaeus Papirius Carbo was a Roman statesman and consul who led the Marian faction during the civil wars of the early 1st century BC.
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D.
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus was a prominent Roman statesman of the late Republic, best known for his influential role in the Senate and his tenure as princeps senatus.
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E.
Publius Claudius Pulcher
Publius Claudius Pulcher was a Roman politician and military commander of the patrician Claudian family, notorious for his impious treatment of the sacred chickens before his disastrous naval defeat in the First Punic War.
- 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: Sicinius Velutus Target entity description: Sicinius Velutus is a tribune of the people and a key political antagonist to the title character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Coriolanus."
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A.
Gaius Papius Mutilus
Gaius Papius Mutilus was a leading Samnite commander and prominent rebel leader during the Roman Social War (91–88 BC).
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B.
Aulus
Aulus is a common Roman praenomen (given name) frequently used among men in ancient Rome.
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C.
Gnaeus Papirius Carbo
Gnaeus Papirius Carbo was a Roman statesman and consul who led the Marian faction during the civil wars of the early 1st century BC.
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D.
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus was a prominent Roman statesman of the late Republic, best known for his influential role in the Senate and his tenure as princeps senatus.
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E.
Publius Claudius Pulcher
Publius Claudius Pulcher was a Roman politician and military commander of the patrician Claudian family, notorious for his impious treatment of the sacred chickens before his disastrous naval defeat in the First Punic War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shakespearean character
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fictional character ⓘ tribune of the people ⓘ |
| affiliation | plebeians of Rome ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Coriolanus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Roman tribunes in Plutarch’s Lives ⓘ |
| characterType |
demagogue
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political manipulator ⓘ |
| coConspiratorWith | Junius Brutus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction |
embodiment of plebeian political power
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foil to patrician values represented by Coriolanus ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Coriolanus, Act I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | tragedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Early Modern English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance drama ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| notableAction |
accuses Coriolanus of aspiring to tyranny
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pronounces sentence of banishment on Coriolanus ⓘ urges the people to revoke support for Coriolanus ⓘ |
| occupation | Roman tribune ⓘ |
| opposes | Caius Martius Coriolanus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotFunction |
engineer of Coriolanus’s banishment
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instigator of popular unrest ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | popular faction ⓘ |
| relationship | ally of Junius Brutus ⓘ |
| roleInWork | political antagonist to Caius Martius Coriolanus ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | ancient Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sicinius Velutus Description of subject: Sicinius Velutus is a tribune of the people and a key political antagonist to the title character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Coriolanus."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.