Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica
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Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica was a prominent Roman statesman and jurist of the patrician Cornelii Scipiones family, known for his political influence during the middle Roman Republic.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica canonical | 1 |
| Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8915316 — 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: Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Context triple: [gens Cornelia, hasMember, Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica]
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Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus was a Roman general and statesman of the early Second Punic War, known for his campaigns in Hispania against Carthaginian forces.
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B.
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura was a Roman senator and conspirator best known as one of the leading figures in the Catilinarian conspiracy against the late Roman Republic.
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C.
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus was a prominent Roman statesman of the late Republic, best known for his influential role in the Senate and his tenure as princeps senatus.
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D.
Gaius Aurelius Cotta
Gaius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman statesman and consul of the 3rd century BC, noted for his role in Roman politics and military affairs.
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E.
Sicinius Velutus
Sicinius Velutus is a tribune of the people and a key political antagonist to the title character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Coriolanus."
- 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: Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Target entity description: Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica was a prominent Roman statesman and jurist of the patrician Cornelii Scipiones family, known for his political influence during the middle Roman Republic.
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A.
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus was a Roman general and statesman of the early Second Punic War, known for his campaigns in Hispania against Carthaginian forces.
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B.
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura was a Roman senator and conspirator best known as one of the leading figures in the Catilinarian conspiracy against the late Roman Republic.
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C.
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus
Marcus Aemilius Scaurus was a prominent Roman statesman of the late Republic, best known for his influential role in the Senate and his tenure as princeps senatus.
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D.
Gaius Aurelius Cotta
Gaius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman statesman and consul of the 3rd century BC, noted for his role in Roman politics and military affairs.
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E.
Sicinius Velutus
Sicinius Velutus is a tribune of the people and a key political antagonist to the title character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Coriolanus."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman statesman
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ancient Roman politician ⓘ jurist ⓘ patrician ⓘ |
| agnomen | Nasica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | ancient Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classicalContext | Roman Republican period ⓘ |
| cognomen | Scipio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | Roman culture ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Roman ⓘ |
| familyName | Cornelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Roman law
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Roman politics ⓘ |
| governedBy | Roman Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Cornelii Scipiones
NERFINISHED
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gens Cornelia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Cornelii Scipiones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
legal expertise
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political influence in the Roman Republic ⓘ role in Roman constitutional and public law ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman aristocracy ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | optimates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman consul
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Roman jurist ⓘ Roman pontifex maximus NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman senator ⓘ |
| residence | Rome ⓘ |
| socialClass | patrician ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Roman Republic 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: Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Description of subject: Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica was a prominent Roman statesman and jurist of the patrician Cornelii Scipiones family, known for his political influence during the middle Roman Republic.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum