Plautianus
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Plautianus was a powerful Roman statesman and close ally of Emperor Septimius Severus who rose to great influence before being executed for alleged treason in the early 3rd century AD.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Plautianus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13050470 — 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: Plautianus Context triple: [Praetorian Prefect, hasNotableOfficeHolder, Plautianus]
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A.
Marcianus
Marcianus was a late Roman imperial prince, known primarily as the son of Western Roman Emperor Anthemius.
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B.
Lucianus
Lucianus is an ancient Roman masculine given name that later evolved into various forms such as Lucien and Lucian.
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C.
Cassianus
Cassianus is the Latin name of Saint Cassian of Imola, an early Christian martyr and teacher venerated in the Catholic Church.
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D.
Quintillus
Quintillus was a short-reigning 3rd-century Roman emperor who briefly ruled after Claudius Gothicus and before Aurelian during the Crisis of the Third Century.
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E.
Anicius Maximus
Anicius Maximus was a late Roman aristocrat and politician from the powerful senatorial Anician family, noted for holding high offices in the Western Roman Empire.
- 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: Plautianus Target entity description: Plautianus was a powerful Roman statesman and close ally of Emperor Septimius Severus who rose to great influence before being executed for alleged treason in the early 3rd century AD.
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A.
Marcianus
Marcianus was a late Roman imperial prince, known primarily as the son of Western Roman Emperor Anthemius.
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B.
Lucianus
Lucianus is an ancient Roman masculine given name that later evolved into various forms such as Lucien and Lucian.
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C.
Cassianus
Cassianus is the Latin name of Saint Cassian of Imola, an early Christian martyr and teacher venerated in the Catholic Church.
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D.
Quintillus
Quintillus was a short-reigning 3rd-century Roman emperor who briefly ruled after Claudius Gothicus and before Aurelian during the Crisis of the Third Century.
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E.
Anicius Maximus
Anicius Maximus was a late Roman aristocrat and politician from the powerful senatorial Anician family, noted for holding high offices in the Western Roman Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Praetorian Prefect
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Roman nobleman ⓘ Roman statesman ⓘ ancient Roman politician ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Praetorian Guard
NERFINISHED
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imperial court of Septimius Severus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | alleged treason ⓘ |
| centuryOfDeath | 3rd century ⓘ |
| charge | treason ⓘ |
| child | Fulvia Plautilla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| closeAllyOf | Septimius Severus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| confidantOf | Septimius Severus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfService | Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 205 ⓘ |
| employer | Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endOfCareerReason | execution for alleged treason ⓘ |
| era | Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Roman African ⓘ |
| fatherInLawOf | Caracalla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit |
early 3rd century AD
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late 2nd century AD ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Roman Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Latin ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| name | Gaius Fulvius Plautianus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
control of the Praetorian Guard
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fall from power and execution ⓘ great political influence under Septimius Severus ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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politician ⓘ |
| origin | Africa Proconsularis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rome ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | supporter of the Severan dynasty ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | powerful court official ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Praetorian Prefect of the Roman Empire
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consul ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Septimius Severus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Fulvia Plautilla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Rome ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Septimius Severus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Severan dynasty 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: Plautianus Description of subject: Plautianus was a powerful Roman statesman and close ally of Emperor Septimius Severus who rose to great influence before being executed for alleged treason in the early 3rd century AD.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.