Marcus Annius Verus (praetor)
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Marcus Annius Verus was a Roman senator and praetor of consular rank in the 2nd century AD, best known as the father of the emperor Marcus Aurelius.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T621245 — 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: Marcus Annius Verus (praetor) Context triple: [Marcus Aurelius, father, Marcus Annius Verus (praetor)]
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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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Sextus Julius Severus
Sextus Julius Severus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman general and governor, best known for his decisive role in suppressing the Bar Kokhba revolt in Judea.
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Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder
Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder was a Roman senator and general of Spanish origin, best known as the father of the emperor Trajan.
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Trajan
Trajan was a highly esteemed Roman emperor known for expanding the empire to its greatest territorial extent and overseeing a period of military success and public building projects.
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Lucius Verus
Lucius Verus was a 2nd-century Roman emperor who co-ruled with Marcus Aurelius and led military campaigns against Rome’s northern enemies, including during the Marcomannic Wars.
- 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: Marcus Annius Verus (praetor) Target entity description: Marcus Annius Verus was a Roman senator and praetor of consular rank in the 2nd century AD, best known as the father of the emperor Marcus Aurelius.
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A.
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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B.
Sextus Julius Severus
Sextus Julius Severus was a prominent 2nd-century Roman general and governor, best known for his decisive role in suppressing the Bar Kokhba revolt in Judea.
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Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder
Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder was a Roman senator and general of Spanish origin, best known as the father of the emperor Trajan.
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Trajan
Trajan was a highly esteemed Roman emperor known for expanding the empire to its greatest territorial extent and overseeing a period of military success and public building projects.
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Lucius Verus
Lucius Verus was a 2nd-century Roman emperor who co-ruled with Marcus Aurelius and led military campaigns against Rome’s northern enemies, including during the Marcomannic Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Roman senator
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ancient Roman politician ⓘ praetor ⓘ |
| child | Marcus Aurelius ⓘ |
| cognomen | Verus ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Roman ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 2nd century AD ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2nd century AD ⓘ |
| era | Nerva–Antonine dynasty ⓘ |
| familyName | Annius ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Marcus Aurelius ⓘ |
| floruit | 2nd century AD ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf | gens Annia ⓘ |
| nomen | Annius ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of emperor Marcus Aurelius ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Rome ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman senator
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praetor ⓘ |
| praenomen | Marcus ⓘ |
| rank | consular rank ⓘ |
| relative |
Marcus Annius Verus (praetor)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Marcus Annius Verus (grandfather of Marcus Aurelius)
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| religion | Roman polytheism ⓘ |
| residence | Rome ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialRank | senatorial rank ⓘ |
| spouse | Domitia Lucilla the Younger ⓘ |
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: Marcus Annius Verus (praetor) Description of subject: Marcus Annius Verus was a Roman senator and praetor of consular rank in the 2nd century AD, best known as the father of the emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Marcus Annius Verus (son of Marcus Aurelius)
this entity surface form:
Marcus Annius Verus (grandfather of Marcus Aurelius)
this entity surface form:
Annius Verus (younger)
this entity surface form:
Marcus Annius Verus (the elder)
this entity surface form:
Marcus Annius Verus (consul 121)