Semo Sancus
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Semo Sancus is an ancient Italic god, particularly revered by the Sabines and early Romans as a divine guarantor of oaths, treaties, and good faith.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Semo Sancus canonical | 12 |
| Sancus | 4 |
| Semo Sancus (by name similarity to Sancus/Sanqualis) | 1 |
| Semo Sancus Dius Fidius | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2030380 — 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: Semo Sancus Context triple: [Sabines, associatedDeity, Semo Sancus]
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A.
Latinus
Latinus is a figure from Greek and Roman mythology, often depicted as a king in Italy associated with the early legends surrounding the founding of Rome.
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B.
Romula
Romula was the mother of Roman Emperor Galerius, a peasant woman from Dacia Ripensis who was later honored with significant status during her son's reign.
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C.
Sabbatius
Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
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D.
Faustulus
Faustulus is the shepherd in Roman mythology who discovers the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus and secretly raises them.
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E.
Tatius
Tatius is a legendary king of the Sabines in Roman mythology, known for co-ruling Rome with Romulus after the abduction of the Sabine women.
- 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: Semo Sancus Target entity description: Semo Sancus is an ancient Italic god, particularly revered by the Sabines and early Romans as a divine guarantor of oaths, treaties, and good faith.
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A.
Latinus
Latinus is a figure from Greek and Roman mythology, often depicted as a king in Italy associated with the early legends surrounding the founding of Rome.
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B.
Romula
Romula was the mother of Roman Emperor Galerius, a peasant woman from Dacia Ripensis who was later honored with significant status during her son's reign.
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C.
Sabbatius
Sabbatius was the father of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and a man of humble Illyrian or Thracian origin whose lineage did not belong to the traditional Roman aristocracy.
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D.
Faustulus
Faustulus is the shepherd in Roman mythology who discovers the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus and secretly raises them.
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E.
Tatius
Tatius is a legendary king of the Sabines in Roman mythology, known for co-ruling Rome with Romulus after the abduction of the Sabine women.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italic god
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Roman god ⓘ Sabine god ⓘ deity ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
contracts
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fides ⓘ hospitality ⓘ oath-taking ⓘ |
| considered |
protector of sworn hospitality
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witness to oaths taken under the open sky ⓘ |
| cultStatusInRome | early and archaic ⓘ |
| culture |
Roman religion
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Sabine religion ⓘ |
| domain |
law
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moral obligation ⓘ social order ⓘ |
| epithet |
Sanctus
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Semo ⓘ |
| etymologyRelatedTo | Latin sancire (to hallow, to ratify) ⓘ |
| function |
ensuring the sanctity of oaths
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overseeing sworn agreements ⓘ protecting private contracts ⓘ protecting public treaties ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Dius Fidius
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Sancus ⓘ
linked to:
Semo Sancus
|
| hasCultTitle |
Dius
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linked to:
Dis Pater
Fidius ⓘ |
| hasSanctuary | Temple of Semo Sancus on the Quirinal Hill ⓘ |
| hasTempleLocation | Quirinal Hill ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Fides
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Hercules ⓘ Jupiter ⓘ |
| role |
guarantor of oaths
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guardian of good faith ⓘ protector of treaties ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfProminence |
archaic Rome
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early Roman Republic ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Sabines
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early Romans ⓘ |
| worshippedIn |
Rome
ⓘ
Sabinum ⓘ |
| worshipPractice |
invocation in treaty ceremonies
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oaths sworn in his name ⓘ rituals affirming good faith ⓘ |
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: Semo Sancus Description of subject: Semo Sancus is an ancient Italic god, particularly revered by the Sabines and early Romans as a divine guarantor of oaths, treaties, and good faith.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Semo Sancus
subject linked to:
Sabine
vicus Portae Sanqualis
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associatedWithDeity
→
Semo Sancus (by name similarity to Sancus/Sanqualis)
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linked to: Semo Sancus
linked to: Semo Sancus
linked to: Semo Sancus
subject linked to:
Semo
linked to: Semo Sancus
linked to: Semo Sancus