Augustus
E5360
Augustus was the first Roman emperor, who established the Roman Empire and led a period of relative peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana.
All labels observed (31)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T43485 — 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: Augustus Context triple: [Temple of Dendur, builtBy, Augustus]
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A.
Julius
Julius is the first given name of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
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B.
Emperor
The Emperor is the ceremonial monarch and symbolic head of state of Japan, representing the continuity and unity of the Japanese nation.
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C.
Paul
Paul is a masculine given name of Latin origin, widely used in many Western and Christian-influenced cultures.
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D.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of J. C. R. Licklider, a pioneering computer scientist often regarded as a key figure in the development of the internet and interactive computing.
- 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: Augustus Target entity description: Augustus was the first Roman emperor, who established the Roman Empire and led a period of relative peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana.
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A.
Julius
Julius is the first given name of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
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B.
Emperor
The Emperor is the ceremonial monarch and symbolic head of state of Japan, representing the continuity and unity of the Japanese nation.
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C.
Paul
Paul is a masculine given name of Latin origin, widely used in many Western and Christian-influenced cultures.
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D.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of J. C. R. Licklider, a pioneering computer scientist often regarded as a key figure in the development of the internet and interactive computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman emperor
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| adoptedBy | Julius Caesar ⓘ |
| adoptiveFather | Julius Caesar ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Augustus
ⓘ
surface form:
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
Augustus ⓘ
surface form:
Gaius Octavian
Augustus ⓘ
surface form:
Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus
Augustus ⓘ
surface form:
Octavian
|
| birthName |
Augustus
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Gaius Octavius Thurinus
|
| burialPlace | Mausoleum of Augustus ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| child |
Scribonia
ⓘ
surface form:
Julia the Elder
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 63 BC ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | AD 14 ⓘ |
| dynasty | Julio-Claudian dynasty ⓘ |
| era | Classical antiquity ⓘ |
| father | Gaius Octavius ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the first Roman emperor
ⓘ
founding the Roman Empire ⓘ initiating the Pax Romana ⓘ political and administrative reforms ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| mother | Atia Balba Caesonia ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Battle of Actium
ⓘ
constitutional settlement of 23 BC ⓘ constitutional settlement of 27 BC ⓘ establishment of the Pax Romana ⓘ formation of the Second Triumvirate ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Rome ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nola ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman emperor
ⓘ
consul of the Roman Republic ⓘ pontifex maximus ⓘ princeps senatus ⓘ triumvir ⓘ |
| predecessor | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| reignEnd | AD 14 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 27 BC ⓘ |
| religion | Roman polytheism ⓘ |
| residence |
Palatine Hill
ⓘ
surface form:
Palatine Hill, Rome
|
| spouse |
Claudia Pulchra
ⓘ
Livia Drusilla ⓘ Scribonia ⓘ |
| stepchild |
Tiberius
ⓘ
surface form:
Drusus the Elder
Tiberius ⓘ |
| successor | Tiberius ⓘ |
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: Augustus Description of subject: Augustus was the first Roman emperor, who established the Roman Empire and led a period of relative peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana.
Referenced by (526)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Augustus William of Prussia
this entity surface form:
Emperor Augustus
subject surface form:
Ovid’s Fasti
this entity surface form:
Augustus (Latin imperial title)
this entity surface form:
Emperor Augustus
subject surface form:
Obelisk of Montecitorio
this entity surface form:
Emperor Augustus
subject surface form:
Obelisk of Montecitorio
this entity surface form:
Emperor Augustus
subject surface form:
Obelisk of Montecitorio
this entity surface form:
Emperor Augustus
subject surface form:
Herod the Great
this entity surface form:
Octavian
subject surface form:
Valentinian III
this entity surface form:
Emperor Augustus
subject surface form:
Titus Statilius Taurus
subject surface form:
Victoria
this entity surface form:
Imperator Augustus
subject surface form:
Carus
subject surface form:
Carinus
this entity surface form:
Octavian
this entity surface form:
Octavian