Petreius
E486904
Petreius is a Latinized family name most notably borne by the 16th-century Nuremberg printer Johannes Petreius, renowned for publishing works such as Copernicus’s "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcus Petreius | 3 |
| Petreius canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4986367 — 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: Petreius Context triple: [Johannes Petreius, familyName, Petreius]
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A.
Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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B.
Helvius Pertinax the Younger
Helvius Pertinax the Younger was the son of the Roman emperor Pertinax, briefly associated with the imperial family during the turbulent Year of the Five Emperors in 193 AD.
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C.
Calangianus
Calangianus is a town in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia, Italy, known historically for its cork production and traditional rural culture.
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D.
Sabinus
Sabinus is a cognomen used by members of the ancient Roman Claudian gens, identifying a particular family branch within this prominent patrician lineage.
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E.
Martin Ilacomilus
Martin Ilacomilus is an alternative name for Martin Waldseemüller, the early 16th-century German cartographer credited with first using the name "America" on a world map.
- 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: Petreius Target entity description: Petreius is a Latinized family name most notably borne by the 16th-century Nuremberg printer Johannes Petreius, renowned for publishing works such as Copernicus’s "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium."
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A.
Aelius
Aelius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) associated with several notable figures of the Roman Empire, including emperors and high-ranking officials.
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B.
Helvius Pertinax the Younger
Helvius Pertinax the Younger was the son of the Roman emperor Pertinax, briefly associated with the imperial family during the turbulent Year of the Five Emperors in 193 AD.
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C.
Calangianus
Calangianus is a town in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia, Italy, known historically for its cork production and traditional rural culture.
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D.
Sabinus
Sabinus is a cognomen used by members of the ancient Roman Claudian gens, identifying a particular family branch within this prominent patrician lineage.
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E.
Martin Ilacomilus
Martin Ilacomilus is an alternative name for Martin Waldseemüller, the early 16th-century German cartographer credited with first using the name "America" on a world map.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin-language surname
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astronomer ⓘ book ⓘ city ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ scientific treatise ⓘ |
| author | Nicolaus Copernicus ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| familyName | Petreius ⓘ |
| givenName | Johannes ⓘ |
| historicalUsage |
Early modern period
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linked to:
Early Modern period
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| languageOfOrigin | Latin ⓘ |
| mainSubject | heliocentrism ⓘ |
| notableAuthorPublished | Nicolaus Copernicus ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Johannes Petreius ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the family name of the printer Johannes Petreius ⓘ |
| notableWork | De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished | De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ⓘ |
| occupation |
printer
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publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Nuremberg ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Nuremberg ⓘ |
| publisher | Johannes Petreius ⓘ |
| usedAs | surname ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Petreius Description of subject: Petreius is a Latinized family name most notably borne by the 16th-century Nuremberg printer Johannes Petreius, renowned for publishing works such as Copernicus’s "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.