Pescennius Niger
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Pescennius Niger was a Roman general who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the civil wars of 193–194 CE before being defeated by Septimius Severus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pescennius Niger canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9054676 — 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: Pescennius Niger Context triple: [Year of the Five Emperors, hasEmperor, Pescennius Niger]
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A.
Lucianus
Lucianus is an ancient Roman masculine given name that later evolved into various forms such as Lucien and Lucian.
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B.
Avidius Cassius
Avidius Cassius was a 2nd-century Roman general and brief usurper emperor known for his successful eastern campaigns under Marcus Aurelius and his short-lived revolt against the emperor.
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C.
Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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D.
Lusius Quietus
Lusius Quietus was a prominent 2nd-century Berber-Roman general and governor under Emperor Trajan, known for his key role in suppressing Jewish revolts and for briefly being a contender in imperial succession politics.
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E.
Avidius Maecianus
Avidius Maecianus was a Roman figure of the 2nd century AD, best known as the son of the usurper emperor Avidius Cassius.
- 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: Pescennius Niger Target entity description: Pescennius Niger was a Roman general who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the civil wars of 193–194 CE before being defeated by Septimius Severus.
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A.
Lucianus
Lucianus is an ancient Roman masculine given name that later evolved into various forms such as Lucien and Lucian.
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B.
Avidius Cassius
Avidius Cassius was a 2nd-century Roman general and brief usurper emperor known for his successful eastern campaigns under Marcus Aurelius and his short-lived revolt against the emperor.
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C.
Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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D.
Lusius Quietus
Lusius Quietus was a prominent 2nd-century Berber-Roman general and governor under Emperor Trajan, known for his key role in suppressing Jewish revolts and for briefly being a contender in imperial succession politics.
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E.
Avidius Maecianus
Avidius Maecianus was a Roman figure of the 2nd century AD, best known as the son of the usurper emperor Avidius Cassius.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman general
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Roman senator ⓘ Roman usurper emperor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 2nd century ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| claimedTitle | Roman emperor ⓘ |
| cognomen | Niger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Roman ⓘ |
| deathDate | 194 ⓘ |
| deathManner | killed after defeat in civil war ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Cilicia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defeatedAt | Battle of Issus (194) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| defeatedBy | Septimius Severus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Crisis of the Roman Empire in the late 2nd century ⓘ |
| familyName | Pescennius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Gaius Pescennius Niger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Gaius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedProvince | Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldOffice |
Roman consul
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governor of Syria ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Principate ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Roman civil war of 193–194
NERFINISHED
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Year of the Five Emperors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
claiming the imperial throne after the murder of Pertinax
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leading eastern forces against Septimius Severus ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Cassius Dio’s Roman History
NERFINISHED
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Historia Augusta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Cyzicus (193)
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Issus (194) ⓘ Battle of Nicaea (193) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opponent |
Clodius Albinus
NERFINISHED
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Septimius Severus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| periodOfActivity | 193–194 ⓘ |
| predecessorAsClaimant | Pertinax NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Eastern Roman provinces ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 194 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 193 ⓘ |
| rivalClaimantTo |
Clodius Albinus
NERFINISHED
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Didius Julianus NERFINISHED ⓘ Septimius Severus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successionContext | Year of the Five Emperors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
city of Antioch
NERFINISHED
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eastern provinces of the Roman Empire ⓘ province of Syria ⓘ |
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: Pescennius Niger Description of subject: Pescennius Niger was a Roman general who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the civil wars of 193–194 CE before being defeated by Septimius Severus.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.