Cornelius Nepos
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Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer and historian of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "De Viris Illustribus" ("On Famous Men"), which profiled notable Greek and Roman figures.
All labels observed (1)
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| Cornelius Nepos canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13220786 — 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: Cornelius Nepos Context triple: [Pharnabazus II, historicalSource, Cornelius Nepos]
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Plutarch
Plutarch was a Greek biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist philosopher best known for his "Parallel Lives" and "Moralia," which profoundly influenced later historiography and literature.
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Valerius Maximus
Valerius Maximus was a 1st-century AD Roman writer best known for his work "Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium," a collection of memorable deeds and sayings used as a moral and rhetorical source.
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C.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and rhetorician of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "Roman Antiquities," which offers a detailed account of early Roman history and institutions.
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D.
Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus
Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus was a Roman usurper who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the Crisis of the Third Century.
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Julius Capitolinus
Julius Capitolinus is a purported Roman biographer traditionally credited as one of the authors of the Historia Augusta, a late antique collection of imperial biographies.
- 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: Cornelius Nepos
Target entity description: Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer and historian of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "De Viris Illustribus" ("On Famous Men"), which profiled notable Greek and Roman figures.
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A.
Plutarch
Plutarch was a Greek biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist philosopher best known for his "Parallel Lives" and "Moralia," which profoundly influenced later historiography and literature.
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B.
Valerius Maximus
Valerius Maximus was a 1st-century AD Roman writer best known for his work "Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium," a collection of memorable deeds and sayings used as a moral and rhetorical source.
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C.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian and rhetorician of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "Roman Antiquities," which offers a detailed account of early Roman history and institutions.
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D.
Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus
Ulpius Cornelius Laelianus was a Roman usurper who briefly claimed the imperial throne during the Crisis of the Third Century.
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E.
Julius Capitolinus
Julius Capitolinus is a purported Roman biographer traditionally credited as one of the authors of the Historia Augusta, a late antique collection of imperial biographies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Cornelius Nepos
Description of subject: Cornelius Nepos was a Roman biographer and historian of the 1st century BC, best known for his work "De Viris Illustribus" ("On Famous Men"), which profiled notable Greek and Roman figures.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.