Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo
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Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo was a Roman general and consul known for his prominent military role during the late Republic, particularly as the father of Pompey the Great and a commander in the Social War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1702942 — 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: Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo Context triple: [Social War, keyFigure, Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo]
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Antipater of Sidon
Antipater of Sidon was a 2nd-century BCE Greek poet best known for his epigrams and for composing one of the earliest surviving lists praising the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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B.
Libanius
Libanius was a prominent 4th-century Greek sophist and rhetorician of Antioch, renowned for his influential teaching and extensive corpus of speeches and letters.
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C.
Castricius Firmus
Castricius Firmus was a lesser-known disciple of the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus, associated with the intellectual circle around him in 3rd-century Rome.
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D.
Strabo
Strabo was an ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian best known for his 17-volume work "Geographica," which described the peoples and places of the known world in his time.
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E.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus was a Roman senator and aristocrat of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, best known as the biological father of the emperor Nero.
- 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: Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo Target entity description: Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo was a Roman general and consul known for his prominent military role during the late Republic, particularly as the father of Pompey the Great and a commander in the Social War.
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A.
Antipater of Sidon
Antipater of Sidon was a 2nd-century BCE Greek poet best known for his epigrams and for composing one of the earliest surviving lists praising the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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B.
Libanius
Libanius was a prominent 4th-century Greek sophist and rhetorician of Antioch, renowned for his influential teaching and extensive corpus of speeches and letters.
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C.
Castricius Firmus
Castricius Firmus was a lesser-known disciple of the Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus, associated with the intellectual circle around him in 3rd-century Rome.
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D.
Strabo
Strabo was an ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian best known for his 17-volume work "Geographica," which described the peoples and places of the known world in his time.
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E.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus was a Roman senator and aristocrat of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, best known as the biological father of the emperor Nero.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman consul
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Roman general ⓘ Roman senator ⓘ human ⓘ member of the gens Pompeia ⓘ |
| allegiance | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| burial place | Rome ⓘ |
| child |
Pompey the Great
ⓘ
surface form:
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
|
| cognomen |
Lucius Seius Strabo
ⓘ
surface form:
Strabo
|
| command role | siege of Asculum in the Social War ⓘ |
| commanded | Roman legions in the Social War ⓘ |
| conflict | civil strife in Rome in 87 BC ⓘ |
| consulship year | 89 BC ⓘ |
| country of citizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| date of death | 87 BC ⓘ |
| era |
Late Roman Republic
ⓘ
surface form:
late Roman Republic
|
| familyName |
Pompey the Great
ⓘ
surface form:
Pompeius
|
| givenName | Gnaeus ⓘ |
| held rank |
praetor
ⓘ
quaestor ⓘ |
| known for |
being the father of Pompey the Great
ⓘ
military leadership in the Social War ⓘ |
| manner of death | died of illness ⓘ |
| military conflict | Social War ⓘ |
| native language | Latin ⓘ |
| notable event | Social War ⓘ |
| notable work | command of Roman forces in the Social War ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| parent of | Pompey the Great ⓘ |
| place of death | Rome ⓘ |
| political alignment | optimates ⓘ |
| position held |
Roman consul
ⓘ
Roman general ⓘ Roman senator ⓘ commander in the Social War ⓘ governor of Cisalpine Gaul ⓘ |
| reputation | harsh and avaricious ⓘ |
| sex or gender | male ⓘ |
| social class | equestrian order ⓘ |
| spouse | Pompeia ⓘ |
| succeeded by | Pompey the Great in his client networks ⓘ |
| time period | 2nd–1st century BC ⓘ |
| tribe | Pompeia gens ⓘ |
| victory | capture of Asculum ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo Description of subject: Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo was a Roman general and consul known for his prominent military role during the late Republic, particularly as the father of Pompey the Great and a commander in the Social War.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.