Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus
E402797
Roman general
Roman senator
ancient Roman politician
member of the Roman aristocracy
military commander
Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus was a Roman senator and military commander active under Augustus, noted for his role in suppressing revolts and consolidating Roman control in the Balkans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3966444 — 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: Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus Context triple: [Great Illyrian Revolt, RomanCommander, Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus]
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A.
M. Claudius Fronto
M. Claudius Fronto was a Roman military commander and senator of the 2nd century AD, noted for his leadership in Rome’s eastern campaigns against Parthia.
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B.
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a prominent Roman general and statesman of the 3rd century BC, renowned for his campaigns against Hannibal and the capture of Syracuse during the Second Punic War.
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C.
Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus
Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus was a Roman senator and consul of the early Principate, notable for his prominent political career under Augustus and Tiberius and his marriage into the imperial family.
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D.
Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus
Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus was a Roman senator of the late Republic, notable as the adoptive father of Livia Drusilla and thus an ancestor by marriage of the Julio-Claudian imperial dynasty.
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E.
Lucius Munatius Plancus
Lucius Munatius Plancus was a Roman senator, general, and statesman of the late Republic who served under Julius Caesar and later helped shape the early principate under Augustus.
- 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: Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus Target entity description: Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus was a Roman senator and military commander active under Augustus, noted for his role in suppressing revolts and consolidating Roman control in the Balkans.
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A.
M. Claudius Fronto
M. Claudius Fronto was a Roman military commander and senator of the 2nd century AD, noted for his leadership in Rome’s eastern campaigns against Parthia.
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B.
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a prominent Roman general and statesman of the 3rd century BC, renowned for his campaigns against Hannibal and the capture of Syracuse during the Second Punic War.
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C.
Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus
Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus was a Roman senator and consul of the early Principate, notable for his prominent political career under Augustus and Tiberius and his marriage into the imperial family.
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D.
Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus
Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus was a Roman senator of the late Republic, notable as the adoptive father of Livia Drusilla and thus an ancestor by marriage of the Julio-Claudian imperial dynasty.
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E.
Lucius Munatius Plancus
Lucius Munatius Plancus was a Roman senator, general, and statesman of the late Republic who served under Julius Caesar and later helped shape the early principate under Augustus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman general
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Roman senator ⓘ ancient Roman politician ⓘ member of the Roman aristocracy ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| activeDuring | reign of Augustus ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Augustus
ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Balkans
ⓘ
Roman military expansion ⓘ Roman provincial administration ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Roman Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Rome
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| cognomen |
Messalla
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Messallinus ⓘ |
| culture | Roman ⓘ |
| employer | Roman state ⓘ |
| era |
Augustan age
ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| familyName | Valerius ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| government | Roman imperial government ⓘ |
| hasRank | senatorial rank ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Roman army ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Roman campaigns in the Balkans ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Valerius
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surface form:
Valerii Messallae
|
| notableFor |
consolidating Roman control in the Balkans
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military campaigns in southeastern Europe ⓘ service under Augustus ⓘ suppressing revolts in the Balkans ⓘ |
| occupation |
general
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politician ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| partOf |
Imperial Roman aristocracy
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surface form:
Roman senatorial order
|
| positionHeld |
Roman consul
ⓘ
Roman senator ⓘ military commander under Augustus ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Balkans
ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
Roman military affairs
ⓘ
Roman politics ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Augustus
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surface form:
Roman emperor Augustus
|
| timePeriod |
1st century AD
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1st 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: Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus Description of subject: Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus was a Roman senator and military commander active under Augustus, noted for his role in suppressing revolts and consolidating Roman control in the Balkans.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.