Caecilia Metella Dalmatica
E237299
Caecilia Metella Dalmatica was a Roman noblewoman from the powerful Metelli family, best known as the third wife of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caecilia Metella Dalmatica canonical | 4 |
| Metella | 2 |
| Caecilia Metella (of the Metelli family) | 1 |
| Cecilia (wife of L. Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2100722 — 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: Caecilia Metella Dalmatica Context triple: [Lucius Cornelius Sulla, spouse, Caecilia Metella Dalmatica]
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A.
Aemilia Paulla
Aemilia Paulla was a prominent Roman noblewoman of the 3rd–2nd century BCE, noted for her wealth, lineage, and role in one of the Republic’s most influential aristocratic families.
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B.
Cornelia Metella
Cornelia Metella was a Roman noblewoman from the powerful Metelli family, best known as the last wife of the statesman and general Pompey the Great during the late Roman Republic.
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C.
Milonia Caesonia
Milonia Caesonia was the fourth wife of the Roman emperor Caligula, noted by ancient sources for her beauty, influence at court, and violent death alongside her husband in 41 CE.
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D.
Domitia Paulina
Domitia Paulina was a Roman noblewoman from Hispania and the mother of the emperor Hadrian.
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E.
Pompeia Plotina
Pompeia Plotina was a Roman empress, renowned for her virtue and influence, who was married to Emperor Trajan and played a key role in the adoption of his successor Hadrian.
- 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: Caecilia Metella Dalmatica Target entity description: Caecilia Metella Dalmatica was a Roman noblewoman from the powerful Metelli family, best known as the third wife of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
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A.
Aemilia Paulla
Aemilia Paulla was a prominent Roman noblewoman of the 3rd–2nd century BCE, noted for her wealth, lineage, and role in one of the Republic’s most influential aristocratic families.
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B.
Cornelia Metella
Cornelia Metella was a Roman noblewoman from the powerful Metelli family, best known as the last wife of the statesman and general Pompey the Great during the late Roman Republic.
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C.
Milonia Caesonia
Milonia Caesonia was the fourth wife of the Roman emperor Caligula, noted by ancient sources for her beauty, influence at court, and violent death alongside her husband in 41 CE.
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D.
Domitia Paulina
Domitia Paulina was a Roman noblewoman from Hispania and the mother of the emperor Hadrian.
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E.
Pompeia Plotina
Pompeia Plotina was a Roman empress, renowned for her virtue and influence, who was married to Emperor Trajan and played a key role in the adoption of his successor Hadrian.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman aristocrat
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ancient Roman noblewoman ⓘ member of the gens Caecilia ⓘ |
| additionalCognomen | Dalmatica ⓘ |
| cognomen |
Caecilia Metella Dalmatica
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Metella
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Roman culture ⓘ |
| familyName | Caecilia ⓘ |
| father | Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation |
pontifex maximus
ⓘ
surface form:
Pontifex Maximus
Roman consul ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| marriageStatus | aristocratic marriage alliance ⓘ |
| memberOf | Metelli family ⓘ |
| mother |
Caecilia Metella Dalmatica
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cecilia (wife of L. Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus)
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| notableFor | marriage to dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla ⓘ |
| relative |
Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus
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members of the Metelli family ⓘ |
| socialClass | Roman nobility ⓘ |
| spouse | Lucius Cornelius Sulla ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
Roman dictator
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Roman general ⓘ |
| spouseOrder | third wife of Lucius Cornelius Sulla ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late Roman Republic ⓘ |
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: Caecilia Metella Dalmatica Description of subject: Caecilia Metella Dalmatica was a Roman noblewoman from the powerful Metelli family, best known as the third wife of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Caecilia Metella (of the Metelli family)
this entity surface form:
Metella
this entity surface form:
Metella
this entity surface form:
Cecilia (wife of L. Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus)