Iordanes
E792058
Iordanes was a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat and historian best known for his work "Getica," a key source on the history of the Goths and late antiquity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iordanes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9311410 — 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: Iordanes Context triple: [Jordanes, alternativeName, Iordanes]
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A.
Movses Khorenatsi
Movses Khorenatsi was a 5th-century Armenian historian and scholar, traditionally regarded as the “father of Armenian history” for his foundational chronicle of the Armenian people.
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B.
Agathangelos
Agathangelos was a 5th-century Armenian historian traditionally credited with writing the foundational account of Armenia’s conversion to Christianity and the life of Saint Gregory the Illuminator.
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C.
Zosimus
Zosimus was a Byzantine historian of the early 6th century best known for his pagan-leaning account of the later Roman Empire in his work "New History."
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D.
Agathias
Agathias was a 6th-century Byzantine poet and historian best known for his continuation of Procopius’s history and his works on the reign of Emperor Justinian I.
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E.
Diodorus of Tarsus
Diodorus of Tarsus was a 4th-century Christian bishop and theologian known as a key precursor of the Antiochene school of biblical exegesis and an opponent of Arianism.
- 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: Iordanes Target entity description: Iordanes was a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat and historian best known for his work "Getica," a key source on the history of the Goths and late antiquity.
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A.
Movses Khorenatsi
Movses Khorenatsi was a 5th-century Armenian historian and scholar, traditionally regarded as the “father of Armenian history” for his foundational chronicle of the Armenian people.
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B.
Agathangelos
Agathangelos was a 5th-century Armenian historian traditionally credited with writing the foundational account of Armenia’s conversion to Christianity and the life of Saint Gregory the Illuminator.
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C.
Zosimus
Zosimus was a Byzantine historian of the early 6th century best known for his pagan-leaning account of the later Roman Empire in his work "New History."
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D.
Agathias
Agathias was a 6th-century Byzantine poet and historian best known for his continuation of Procopius’s history and his works on the reign of Emperor Justinian I.
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E.
Diodorus of Tarsus
Diodorus of Tarsus was a 4th-century Christian bishop and theologian known as a key precursor of the Antiochene school of biblical exegesis and an opponent of Arianism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Late Antiquity writer
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Roman bureaucrat ⓘ chronicler ⓘ historian ⓘ |
| approximateDateOfGetica | c. 551 CE ⓘ |
| approximateDateOfRomana | c. 551–552 CE ⓘ |
| basedOn | Cassiodorus’ lost Gothic history NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Eastern Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Eastern Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 6th century ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | possibly Gothic ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Gothic history
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Roman history ⓘ historiography ⓘ |
| floruit | c. 550 CE ⓘ |
| genre | historical writing ⓘ |
| Getica_subject |
Gothic wars with the Roman Empire
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migration of the Goths ⓘ origins of the Goths ⓘ |
| historicalReputation |
important source for the transition from Roman to post-Roman world
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key source for Gothic history ⓘ |
| influenced | medieval Gothic historiography ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Getica
NERFINISHED
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Romana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Getica
NERFINISHED
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Romana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bureaucrat
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cleric ⓘ historian ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Constantinople
NERFINISHED
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Eastern Mediterranean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousStatus | possibly bishop ⓘ |
| Romana_subject | universal history from Creation to his own time ⓘ |
| sourceFor |
history of late antiquity
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history of the Goths ⓘ |
| sourceType |
primary source for 6th-century perspectives on Goths
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secondary source for Gothic traditions ⓘ |
| textualTradition | survives in medieval Latin manuscripts ⓘ |
| wrote |
De origine actibusque Getarum
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De summa temporum vel origine actibusque gentis Romanorum NERFINISHED ⓘ Getica NERFINISHED ⓘ Romana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Iordanes Description of subject: Iordanes was a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat and historian best known for his work "Getica," a key source on the history of the Goths and late antiquity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.