Saloninus
E781057
Saloninus was a short-lived Roman imperial claimant of the 3rd century, briefly elevated as Caesar before being overthrown and killed during the Gallic Empire’s secession.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saloninus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9143584 — 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: Saloninus Context triple: [Postumus, opposedTo, Saloninus]
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A.
Gundisalvus
Gundisalvus is a medieval Latin given name of Visigothic origin that later evolved into the Spanish name Gonzalo.
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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.
Ariaeus
Ariaeus was a Persian military commander who served under Cyrus the Younger during his campaign against Artaxerxes II.
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D.
Incilius
Incilius is a genus of true toads native mainly to the Americas, including species such as the Sonoran Desert toad.
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E.
Ahenobarbus
Ahenobarbus was the cognomen of a prominent Roman aristocratic family line to which the emperor Nero belonged.
- 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: Saloninus Target entity description: Saloninus was a short-lived Roman imperial claimant of the 3rd century, briefly elevated as Caesar before being overthrown and killed during the Gallic Empire’s secession.
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A.
Gundisalvus
Gundisalvus is a medieval Latin given name of Visigothic origin that later evolved into the Spanish name Gonzalo.
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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.
Ariaeus
Ariaeus was a Persian military commander who served under Cyrus the Younger during his campaign against Artaxerxes II.
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D.
Incilius
Incilius is a genus of true toads native mainly to the Americas, including species such as the Sonoran Desert toad.
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E.
Ahenobarbus
Ahenobarbus was the cognomen of a prominent Roman aristocratic family line to which the emperor Nero belonged.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
3rd-century Roman person
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Roman imperial claimant ⓘ Roman usurper ⓘ |
| advisor | Silvanus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Gallic Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
3rd-century murdered monarchs
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Ancient Roman child monarchs ⓘ Roman usurpers ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman citizen ⓘ |
| commandedBy | Silvanus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Power struggle with Postumus ⓘ |
| country | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 242 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 260 ⓘ |
| dynasty | Valerian dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevatedBy | Gallienus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevatedTo | Caesar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Crisis of the Third Century NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Romans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Saloninus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Gallienus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Publius Licinius Cornelius Saloninus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Publius Licinius Cornelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Valerian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 3rd century ⓘ |
| killedBy | Postumus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | Killed after a revolt by Postumus’s troops ⓘ |
| mother | Cornelia Salonina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Being a short-lived Roman imperial claimant in the 3rd century
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Death during the secession that led to the Gallic Empire ⓘ |
| opponent | Postumus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Imperial college under Gallienus ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Cologne
NERFINISHED
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Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Caesar of the Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignAsCaesarEnd | 260 ⓘ |
| reignAsCaesarStart | 258 ⓘ |
| religion | Roman paganism ⓘ |
| residence | Cologne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Valerian II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successorAsRulerInGaul | Postumus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Caesar 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: Saloninus Description of subject: Saloninus was a short-lived Roman imperial claimant of the 3rd century, briefly elevated as Caesar before being overthrown and killed during the Gallic Empire’s secession.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.