Lucius Valerius Flaccus
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Lucius Valerius Flaccus was a Roman politician and general of the late Republic, notable for his brief command in the First Mithridatic War after being appointed to replace Sulla.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lucius Valerius Flaccus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10163069 — 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: Lucius Valerius Flaccus Context triple: [First Mithridatic War, commandedBy, Lucius Valerius Flaccus]
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A.
Valerius Flaccus
Valerius Flaccus was a 1st-century Roman poet best known for his unfinished epic "Argonautica," a major work of the Silver Age of Latin literature.
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B.
Marcus Statius Priscus
Marcus Statius Priscus was a 2nd-century Roman senator and general best known for his prominent military leadership during the Roman–Parthian conflicts under the Antonine emperors.
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C.
Statius
Statius was a prominent Roman poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature, best known for his epic "Thebaid" and his collection of occasional poems, the "Silvae."
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D.
Propertius
Propertius was a prominent Roman elegiac poet of the Augustan age, best known for his intensely personal love elegies.
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E.
Ennius
Ennius was an early Roman poet, often called the "father of Roman poetry," whose epic and dramatic works profoundly shaped later Latin literature.
- 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: Lucius Valerius Flaccus Target entity description: Lucius Valerius Flaccus was a Roman politician and general of the late Republic, notable for his brief command in the First Mithridatic War after being appointed to replace Sulla.
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A.
Valerius Flaccus
Valerius Flaccus was a 1st-century Roman poet best known for his unfinished epic "Argonautica," a major work of the Silver Age of Latin literature.
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B.
Marcus Statius Priscus
Marcus Statius Priscus was a 2nd-century Roman senator and general best known for his prominent military leadership during the Roman–Parthian conflicts under the Antonine emperors.
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C.
Statius
Statius was a prominent Roman poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature, best known for his epic "Thebaid" and his collection of occasional poems, the "Silvae."
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D.
Propertius
Propertius was a prominent Roman elegiac poet of the Augustan age, best known for his intensely personal love elegies.
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E.
Ennius
Ennius was an early Roman poet, often called the "father of Roman poetry," whose epic and dramatic works profoundly shaped later Latin literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman consul
ⓘ
ancient Roman general ⓘ ancient Roman politician ⓘ governor of Asia ⓘ |
| activity |
Roman politics
ⓘ
military command ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Gaius Marius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appointedTo | command in the First Mithridatic War ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| cognomen | Flaccus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colleagueInOffice | Gaius Marius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandedRegion | Roman province of Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandedTroopsIn | Asia Minor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
First Mithridatic War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman civil conflicts of the 80s BC ⓘ |
| consulYear | 86 BC ⓘ |
| deathCause | killed in mutiny ⓘ |
| deathYear | 85 BC ⓘ |
| diedIn | Asia Minor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | late Roman Republic ⓘ |
| familyRelation | member of the Valerii Flacci branch ⓘ |
| heldOffice | consul of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| historicalSource |
Appian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Livy (per epitomes) NERFINISHED ⓘ Plutarch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | Gaius Flavius Fimbria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalStatus | patrician ⓘ |
| memberOf | gens Valeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nomen | Valerius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being appointed to replace Sulla in the East
ⓘ
brief command in the First Mithridatic War ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman optimates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Marian faction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| praenomen | Lucius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededInOfficeBy | Gnaeus Octavius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank |
legatus
ⓘ
proconsul ⓘ |
| replaced | Lucius Cornelius Sulla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Gaius Marius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededInOfficeBy | Lucius Cornelius Cinna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century BC ⓘ |
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: Lucius Valerius Flaccus Description of subject: Lucius Valerius Flaccus was a Roman politician and general of the late Republic, notable for his brief command in the First Mithridatic War after being appointed to replace Sulla.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.