Justin (historian)
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Justin was a Roman historian and epitomator, best known for his abridged version of Pompeius Trogus’s expansive universal history, the *Historiae Philippicae*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Justin (historian) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19216327 — 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: Justin (historian) Context triple: [Semiramis, mentionedBy, Justin (historian)]
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A.
Richard Benedict
Richard Benedict was an American character actor and occasional director known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television.
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B.
Cornelius Taine
Cornelius Taine is the central protagonist of Rudy Rucker’s science-fiction novel "The Manifold: Time," a mathematician who explores the implications of advanced physics and cosmology.
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C.
Andrew Kaiser
Andrew Kaiser is a film composer best known for scoring the horror-comedy movie "Tucker & Dale vs. Evil."
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D.
Alexander of Huntingdon
Alexander of Huntingdon was a medieval Scottish nobleman, known primarily as a younger son of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, and thus a member of the royal House of Dunkeld.
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E.
Iordanes
Iordanes was a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat and historian best known for his work "Getica," a key source on the history of the Goths and late antiquity.
- 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: Justin (historian) Target entity description: Justin was a Roman historian and epitomator, best known for his abridged version of Pompeius Trogus’s expansive universal history, the *Historiae Philippicae*.
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A.
Richard Benedict
Richard Benedict was an American character actor and occasional director known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and television.
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B.
Cornelius Taine
Cornelius Taine is the central protagonist of Rudy Rucker’s science-fiction novel "The Manifold: Time," a mathematician who explores the implications of advanced physics and cosmology.
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C.
Andrew Kaiser
Andrew Kaiser is a film composer best known for scoring the horror-comedy movie "Tucker & Dale vs. Evil."
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D.
Alexander of Huntingdon
Alexander of Huntingdon was a medieval Scottish nobleman, known primarily as a younger son of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, and thus a member of the royal House of Dunkeld.
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E.
Iordanes
Iordanes was a 6th-century Roman bureaucrat and historian best known for his work "Getica," a key source on the history of the Goths and late antiquity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.