Fannius
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Fannius is a character in Cicero’s philosophical dialogue "De re publica," participating in the work’s discussions on Roman politics and constitutional theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fannius canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8310256 — 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: Fannius Context triple: [De re publica, dialogueParticipants, Fannius]
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A.
Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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B.
Arcesius
Arcesius is a figure in Greek mythology, known as the son of Zeus and the father of Laertes, making him the grandfather of Odysseus.
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C.
Latreillius
Latreillius is a genus of crustaceans named in honor of the French zoologist and entomologist Pierre André Latreille.
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D.
Atius
Atius is a Roman nomen (family name) associated with the plebeian gens Atia in ancient Rome.
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E.
Fortius
Fortius is the Latin word meaning "stronger," best known as part of the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Faster, Higher, Stronger").
- 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: Fannius Target entity description: Fannius is a character in Cicero’s philosophical dialogue "De re publica," participating in the work’s discussions on Roman politics and constitutional theory.
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A.
Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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B.
Arcesius
Arcesius is a figure in Greek mythology, known as the son of Zeus and the father of Laertes, making him the grandfather of Odysseus.
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C.
Latreillius
Latreillius is a genus of crustaceans named in honor of the French zoologist and entomologist Pierre André Latreille.
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D.
Atius
Atius is a Roman nomen (family name) associated with the plebeian gens Atia in ancient Rome.
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E.
Fortius
Fortius is the Latin word meaning "stronger," best known as part of the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Faster, Higher, Stronger").
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a philosophical dialogue
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | De re publica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Cicero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Cicero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext | ancient Roman literature ⓘ |
| discourseFunction | interlocutor in dialogue ⓘ |
| discussesTopic |
Roman politics
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constitutional theory ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Cicero’s De re publica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
political philosophy
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political theory ⓘ |
| hasWorkTitleInEnglish | On the Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkTitleInLatin | De re publica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryFormOfWork | philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Ciceronian dialogue ⓘ |
| medium | text ⓘ |
| participatesIn | philosophical discussions ⓘ |
| primaryThemeOfWork |
ideal constitution of the Roman state
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nature of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| roleInWork | dialogue participant ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeOfWorkComposition | 1st century BCE ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Marcus Tullius Cicero 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: Fannius Description of subject: Fannius is a character in Cicero’s philosophical dialogue "De re publica," participating in the work’s discussions on Roman politics and constitutional theory.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.