Porcius family

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ancient Roman gens plebeian family

The Porcius family was an ancient Roman plebeian gens, most notably associated with the statesman and censor Cato the Elder.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Porcius family canonical	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Roman gens ⓘ plebeian family ⓘ
associatedCognomen	Capito GENERATED ⓘ Cato GENERATED ⓘ Laeca GENERATED ⓘ Licinianus GENERATED ⓘ
associatedWithVirtue	Roman virtue of disciplina ⓘ Roman virtue of frugalitas ⓘ Roman virtue of severitas ⓘ
country	Roman Republic ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Romans NERFINISHED ⓘ
familyType	patrilineal Roman gens ⓘ
governingSystemContext	Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLatinName	gens Porcia NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMember	Lucius Porcius Cato NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder) NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Porcius Laeca NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	opposition to Hellenistic luxury and influence ⓘ strict moral and traditionalist values ⓘ
languageOfName	Latin ⓘ
nomen	Porcius NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableMember	Cato the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ Cato the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucius Porcius Cato NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Porcius Cato (son of Cato the Elder) NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Porcius Laeca NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableOfficeHeldByMembers	censor ⓘ consul ⓘ praetor ⓘ tribune of the plebs ⓘ
origin	plebeian stock ⓘ
periodOfProminence	1st century BC ⓘ 2nd century BC ⓘ 3rd century BC ⓘ
politicalAlignment	associated with conservative senatorial aristocracy ⓘ
politicalRole	held Roman magistracies ⓘ produced Roman censors ⓘ produced Roman consuls ⓘ
politicalSphere	Roman Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	traditional Roman religion ⓘ
socialClass	plebeian ⓘ
status	non-patrician ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Porcius family
Description of subject: The Porcius family was an ancient Roman plebeian gens, most notably associated with the statesman and censor Cato the Elder.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Basilica Porcia (earlier Republican period) → namedAfter → Porcius family ⓘ

subject surface form: Basilica Porcia