Siricius
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Siricius was a late 4th-century Bishop of Rome recognized as one of the first popes to issue formal decretals that helped shape early canon law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Siricius canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7167394 — 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: Siricius Context triple: [Pope Siricius, name, Siricius]
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A.
Sychaeus
Sychaeus is a wealthy Phoenician nobleman and priest of Hercules in Roman mythology, best known as the murdered husband of Queen Dido of Carthage.
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B.
Severus
Severus (Libius Severus) was a Western Roman Emperor who ruled from 461 to 465 AD during the empire’s late, turbulent decline.
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C.
Alidius
Alidius is the given name of Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, a Dutch nobleman and colonial governor who served as the last Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies before and during the early years of World War II.
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D.
Praxeas
Praxeas was an early Christian theologian known for promoting a modalistic view of the Trinity that was later deemed heretical by mainstream church authorities.
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E.
Ulpius
Ulpius is the family name (nomen gentilicium) of the Roman emperor Trajan, identifying him as a member of the gens Ulpia.
- 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: Siricius Target entity description: Siricius was a late 4th-century Bishop of Rome recognized as one of the first popes to issue formal decretals that helped shape early canon law.
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A.
Sychaeus
Sychaeus is a wealthy Phoenician nobleman and priest of Hercules in Roman mythology, best known as the murdered husband of Queen Dido of Carthage.
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B.
Severus
Severus (Libius Severus) was a Western Roman Emperor who ruled from 461 to 465 AD during the empire’s late, turbulent decline.
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C.
Alidius
Alidius is the given name of Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, a Dutch nobleman and colonial governor who served as the last Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies before and during the early years of World War II.
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D.
Praxeas
Praxeas was an early Christian theologian known for promoting a modalistic view of the Trinity that was later deemed heretical by mainstream church authorities.
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E.
Ulpius
Ulpius is the family name (nomen gentilicium) of the Roman emperor Trajan, identifying him as a member of the gens Ulpia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian cleric
ⓘ
Pope ⓘ saint ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 4th century ⓘ |
| church | Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | 399 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Rome ⓘ |
| endTime | 399 ⓘ |
| era | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| feastDay | 26 November ⓘ |
| givenName | Siricius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix |
Pope
ⓘ
Saint ⓘ |
| influenced | development of canon law ⓘ |
| isRecognizedAsSaintBy | Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| issued | papal decretals ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Diocese of Rome
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributing to early canon law
ⓘ
issuing formal papal decretals ⓘ letter to Bishop Himerius of Tarragona ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Latin ⓘ |
| notableWork | Decretal to Himerius of Tarragona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bishop
ⓘ
theologian ⓘ |
| papacy | Papacy of Siricius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| papacyEndDate | 399 ⓘ |
| papacyStartDate | 384 ⓘ |
| papalName | Siricius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| papalOrdinalNumber | 38 ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Pope
ⓘ
surface form:
Bishop of Rome
Pope ⓘ |
| predecessor | Pope Damasus I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | secular clergy ⓘ |
| startTime | 384 ⓘ |
| succeeded | Pope Damasus I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Pope Anastasius I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 4th century ⓘ |
| title |
Bishop of Rome
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Supreme Pontiff NERFINISHED ⓘ Vicar of Christ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasSucceededBy | Pope Anastasius I 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: Siricius Description of subject: Siricius was a late 4th-century Bishop of Rome recognized as one of the first popes to issue formal decretals that helped shape early canon law.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.