Proculeius
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Proculeius is a loyal Roman officer in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra," known for his role in securing Cleopatra’s surrender on Octavius Caesar’s behalf.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Proculeius canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5128061 — 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: Proculeius Context triple: [Antony and Cleopatra, containsCharacter, Proculeius]
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A.
Tigellinus
Tigellinus was a powerful and notorious prefect of the Praetorian Guard under the Roman emperor Nero, known for his cruelty, political intrigue, and role in suppressing opposition.
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B.
Lollius
Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
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C.
Titus Ollius
Titus Ollius was a Roman of the early Imperial period, chiefly known as the father of the future empress Poppaea Sabina.
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D.
Terentius
Terentius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) that gave rise to the later surname Terence.
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E.
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.
- 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: Proculeius Target entity description: Proculeius is a loyal Roman officer in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra," known for his role in securing Cleopatra’s surrender on Octavius Caesar’s behalf.
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A.
Tigellinus
Tigellinus was a powerful and notorious prefect of the Praetorian Guard under the Roman emperor Nero, known for his cruelty, political intrigue, and role in suppressing opposition.
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B.
Lollius
Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
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C.
Titus Ollius
Titus Ollius was a Roman of the early Imperial period, chiefly known as the father of the future empress Poppaea Sabina.
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D.
Terentius
Terentius is an ancient Roman family name (nomen) that gave rise to the later surname Terence.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman officer
ⓘ
Shakespearean character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsAlongside |
Agrippa
ⓘ
Antony ⓘ
linked to:
Mark Antony
Dolabella ⓘ Gallus ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Antony and Cleopatra ⓘ |
| appearsInAct |
Antony and Cleopatra, Act V
ⓘ
linked to:
Antony and Cleopatra
|
| associatedWith |
Cleopatra
ⓘ
Octavius Caesar ⓘ |
| basedOn | Roman historical sources about the aftermath of Actium ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
diplomatic
ⓘ
loyal ⓘ obedient to Caesar’s commands ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| employedBy | Octavius Caesar ⓘ |
| genreContext | tragedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | English Renaissance drama ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Octavius Caesar ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | agent of Caesar’s political control over Egypt ⓘ |
| nationality | Roman ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | secures Cleopatra’s surrender ⓘ |
| servesAs | emissary of Octavius Caesar ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Alexandria ⓘ |
| settingTime | final phase of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| workDateApprox | circa 1606–1607 ⓘ |
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: Proculeius Description of subject: Proculeius is a loyal Roman officer in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra," known for his role in securing Cleopatra’s surrender on Octavius Caesar’s behalf.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.