Publius Valerius Laevinus
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Publius Valerius Laevinus was a Roman consul and general of the early 3rd century BC, known for leading Roman forces during the initial phase of the Pyrrhic War against King Pyrrhus of Epirus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Publius Valerius Laevinus canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2415003 — 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: Publius Valerius Laevinus Context triple: [Pyrrhic War, notableCommander, Publius Valerius Laevinus]
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Gaius Aurelius Cotta
Gaius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman statesman and consul of the 3rd century BC, noted for his role in Roman politics and military affairs.
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B.
Gaius Papius Mutilus
Gaius Papius Mutilus was a leading Samnite commander and prominent rebel leader during the Roman Social War (91–88 BC).
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C.
Marcus Fulvius Nobilior
Marcus Fulvius Nobilior was a prominent Roman statesman and general of the 2nd century BC, noted for his military campaigns and for sponsoring significant public building projects in Rome.
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D.
Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius was a Roman architect known for designing the Tabularium, the official records office of ancient Rome located on the Capitoline Hill.
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E.
Gnaeus Egnatius
Gnaeus Egnatius was a Roman proconsul and road-builder best known for initiating the construction of the Via Egnatia across the Balkans in the 2nd century BCE.
- 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: Publius Valerius Laevinus Target entity description: Publius Valerius Laevinus was a Roman consul and general of the early 3rd century BC, known for leading Roman forces during the initial phase of the Pyrrhic War against King Pyrrhus of Epirus.
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A.
Gaius Aurelius Cotta
Gaius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman statesman and consul of the 3rd century BC, noted for his role in Roman politics and military affairs.
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B.
Gaius Papius Mutilus
Gaius Papius Mutilus was a leading Samnite commander and prominent rebel leader during the Roman Social War (91–88 BC).
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C.
Marcus Fulvius Nobilior
Marcus Fulvius Nobilior was a prominent Roman statesman and general of the 2nd century BC, noted for his military campaigns and for sponsoring significant public building projects in Rome.
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D.
Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius was a Roman architect known for designing the Tabularium, the official records office of ancient Rome located on the Capitoline Hill.
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E.
Gnaeus Egnatius
Gnaeus Egnatius was a Roman proconsul and road-builder best known for initiating the construction of the Via Egnatia across the Balkans in the 2nd century BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman consul
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Roman general ⓘ ancient Roman politician ⓘ member of the Roman Senate ⓘ |
| active in | Pyrrhic War ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| cognomen | Laevinus ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Roman ⓘ |
| era | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| family name | Valerius ⓘ |
| known for |
leading Roman forces against Pyrrhus of Epirus
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participation in the opening campaigns of the Pyrrhic War ⓘ |
| language of work or name | Latin ⓘ |
| military conflict | Battle of Heraclea ⓘ |
| military rank | general ⓘ |
| notable work | command of Roman forces in the early phase of the Pyrrhic War ⓘ |
| office contested | consulship of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| opponent | Pyrrhus of Epirus ⓘ |
| position held | consul of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| praenomen | Publius ⓘ |
| sex or gender | male ⓘ |
| sphere of activity |
politics
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warfare ⓘ |
| time period | early 3rd century BC ⓘ |
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: Publius Valerius Laevinus Description of subject: Publius Valerius Laevinus was a Roman consul and general of the early 3rd century BC, known for leading Roman forces during the initial phase of the Pyrrhic War against King Pyrrhus of Epirus.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.