Ulpius Marcellus
E1025884
Ulpius Marcellus was a prominent Roman official and jurist who rose to high imperial office during the Roman Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ulpius Marcellus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13050472 — 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: Ulpius Marcellus Context triple: [Praetorian Prefect, hasNotableOfficeHolder, Ulpius Marcellus]
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A.
Messius Quintus
Messius Quintus is an ancient Roman family name associated with the gens Messia, to which the individual Decius belonged.
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B.
Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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C.
Quintus
Quintus is a traditional Latin praenomen (given name) commonly used in ancient Rome, often indicating the fifth-born child or associated with the number five.
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D.
Titus Ollius
Titus Ollius was a Roman of the early Imperial period, chiefly known as the father of the future empress Poppaea Sabina.
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E.
Lollius
Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
- 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: Ulpius Marcellus Target entity description: Ulpius Marcellus was a prominent Roman official and jurist who rose to high imperial office during the Roman Empire.
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A.
Messius Quintus
Messius Quintus is an ancient Roman family name associated with the gens Messia, to which the individual Decius belonged.
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B.
Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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C.
Quintus
Quintus is a traditional Latin praenomen (given name) commonly used in ancient Rome, often indicating the fifth-born child or associated with the number five.
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D.
Titus Ollius
Titus Ollius was a Roman of the early Imperial period, chiefly known as the father of the future empress Poppaea Sabina.
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E.
Lollius
Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman official
ⓘ
ancient Roman jurist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activityStartTime | 2nd century ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| cognomen | Marcellus ⓘ |
| countryOfService | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| culture |
Ancient Rome
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linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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| era |
Imperial Roman period
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linked to:
Early Roman Empire
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| fieldOfWork | Roman law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | legal scholar ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of Roman legal doctrine
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later Roman jurists ⓘ |
| knownFor | contributions to Roman jurisprudence ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Latin ⓘ |
| legalSystem | Roman law ⓘ |
| name | Ulpius Marcellus ⓘ |
| nomen | Ulpius ⓘ |
| notableRole | Roman imperial administrator ⓘ |
| occupation |
Roman provincial governor
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman legal tradition ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman provincial governorship
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high imperial office ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 2nd century ⓘ |
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: Ulpius Marcellus Description of subject: Ulpius Marcellus was a prominent Roman official and jurist who rose to high imperial office during the Roman Empire.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.