Licinianus
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Licinianus is a Roman cognomen associated with the Porcia gens, reflecting familial or ancestral ties within that ancient Roman lineage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Licinianus canonical | 2 |
| Valerius Licinianus Licinius | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10163380 — 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: Licinianus Context triple: [Porcia gens, hasCognomen, Licinianus]
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A.
Lucianus
Lucianus is an ancient Roman masculine given name that later evolved into various forms such as Lucien and Lucian.
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B.
Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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C.
Macrinus
Macrinus was a Roman emperor who briefly ruled from 217 to 218 CE, notable for being the first emperor to come from the equestrian class rather than the traditional senatorial aristocracy.
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D.
Severus III
Severus III was a Western Roman emperor who ruled from 461 to 465 AD during the empire’s final decades of political fragmentation and decline.
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E.
Vetranio
Vetranio was a 4th-century Roman general who briefly ruled as a usurper emperor in the Balkans before abdicating in favor of Constantius II.
- 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: Licinianus Target entity description: Licinianus is a Roman cognomen associated with the Porcia gens, reflecting familial or ancestral ties within that ancient Roman lineage.
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A.
Lucianus
Lucianus is an ancient Roman masculine given name that later evolved into various forms such as Lucien and Lucian.
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B.
Libius Severus
Libius Severus was a little-known Western Roman emperor who reigned from 461 to 465 AD as a puppet of the powerful general Ricimer during the empire’s final decline.
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C.
Macrinus
Macrinus was a Roman emperor who briefly ruled from 217 to 218 CE, notable for being the first emperor to come from the equestrian class rather than the traditional senatorial aristocracy.
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D.
Severus III
Severus III was a Western Roman emperor who ruled from 461 to 465 AD during the empire’s final decades of political fragmentation and decline.
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E.
Vetranio
Vetranio was a 4th-century Roman general who briefly ruled as a usurper emperor in the Balkans before abdicating in favor of Constantius II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin-language name
ⓘ
Roman cognomen ⓘ |
| associatedWithCulture | Roman culture ⓘ |
| associatedWithGens | Porcia gens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory | Roman cognomina ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Roman onomastics ⓘ |
| derivationType | family or ancestral name ⓘ |
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| hasNameElement | -ianus suffix ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| indicates |
ancestral ties
ⓘ
familial ties ⓘ |
| nameType | cognomen ⓘ |
| partOfRomanNamingSystem | tria nomina ⓘ |
| region | Italian Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | classical antiquity ⓘ |
| usedAs | third element of Roman name ⓘ |
| usedBySocialClass | Roman citizens ⓘ |
| usedIn | ancient Rome 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: Licinianus Description of subject: Licinianus is a Roman cognomen associated with the Porcia gens, reflecting familial or ancestral ties within that ancient Roman lineage.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Valerius Licinianus Licinius