Cornelii family
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The Cornelii family was one of the most prominent and influential patrician gentes of ancient Rome, producing numerous important political and military leaders.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelii family canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10163274 — 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: Cornelii family Context triple: [Cornelia Postuma, notableRelative, Cornelii family]
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Appiani family
The Appiani family was an Italian noble dynasty that held significant regional power during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, particularly through its long control of the coastal principality of Piombino in Tuscany.
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B.
Pomponius family
The Pomponius family was an ancient Roman gens of equestrian status, best known for producing Titus Pomponius Atticus, the cultured friend and correspondent of Cicero.
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C.
Porcius 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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D.
Gattilusio family
The Gattilusio family was a powerful Genoese noble dynasty that controlled several Aegean islands and coastal territories as semi-independent lords under Byzantine and later Ottoman influence in the late Middle Ages.
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E.
Colonna family
The Colonna family is a powerful and historically influential Roman noble dynasty that played a major role in medieval and Renaissance Italian politics and the Catholic Church.
- 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: Cornelii family Target entity description: The Cornelii family was one of the most prominent and influential patrician gentes of ancient Rome, producing numerous important political and military leaders.
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A.
Appiani family
The Appiani family was an Italian noble dynasty that held significant regional power during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, particularly through its long control of the coastal principality of Piombino in Tuscany.
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B.
Pomponius family
The Pomponius family was an ancient Roman gens of equestrian status, best known for producing Titus Pomponius Atticus, the cultured friend and correspondent of Cicero.
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C.
Porcius 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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D.
Gattilusio family
The Gattilusio family was a powerful Genoese noble dynasty that controlled several Aegean islands and coastal territories as semi-independent lords under Byzantine and later Ottoman influence in the late Middle Ages.
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E.
Colonna family
The Colonna family is a powerful and historically influential Roman noble dynasty that played a major role in medieval and Renaissance Italian politics and the Catholic Church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Roman gens
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patrician family ⓘ |
| country | Ancient Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genderForm | Cornelia (feminine) ⓘ |
| hasLatinName | gens Cornelia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBranch |
Cornelii Balbi
NERFINISHED
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Cornelii Cethegi NERFINISHED ⓘ Cornelii Cossi NERFINISHED ⓘ Cornelii Dolabellae NERFINISHED ⓘ Cornelii Lentuli NERFINISHED ⓘ Cornelii Merulae NERFINISHED ⓘ Cornelii Rufini NERFINISHED ⓘ Cornelii Scipiones NERFINISHED ⓘ Cornelii Sullae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus
NERFINISHED
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Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus NERFINISHED ⓘ Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucius Cornelius Balbus (major) NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor) NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucius Cornelius Cinna NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix NERFINISHED ⓘ Publius Cornelius Dolabella NERFINISHED ⓘ Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul 218 BC) NERFINISHED ⓘ Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus NERFINISHED ⓘ Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus NERFINISHED ⓘ Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica NERFINISHED ⓘ Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isA | Roman noble family ⓘ |
| knownFor |
military leadership in ancient Rome
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political influence in the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| militaryInvolvement | commanded Roman armies in major wars ⓘ |
| nomen | Cornelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWarInvolvement |
Second Punic War
GENERATED
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Social War GENERATED ⓘ Sulla’s civil wars GENERATED ⓘ |
| origin | early Roman patriciate ⓘ |
| partOf |
Roman Empire aristocracy
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Roman Republic aristocracy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | varied across different branches ⓘ |
| politicalRole |
produced many censors
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produced many consuls ⓘ produced many dictators ⓘ produced many praetors ⓘ |
| socialClass | patrician ⓘ |
| status | one of the most prominent Roman gentes ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Roman Empire
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Roman Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Republic ⓘ |
| usedPraenomen |
Aulus
NERFINISHED
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Gaius NERFINISHED ⓘ Gnaeus NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucius NERFINISHED ⓘ Publius NERFINISHED ⓘ Servius 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: Cornelii family Description of subject: The Cornelii family was one of the most prominent and influential patrician gentes of ancient Rome, producing numerous important political and military leaders.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.