Sextilis
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Sextilis was the original Latin name for the sixth month of the early Roman calendar, later renamed August in honor of Emperor Augustus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sextilis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5534066 — 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: Sextilis Context triple: [Roman calendar, includedMonth, Sextilis]
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A.
Marcius Turbo
Marcius Turbo was a prominent Roman general and governor under Emperor Trajan and Hadrian, noted for his successful military campaigns in the early 2nd century CE.
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B.
Iulus
Iulus is a figure in Roman mythology, traditionally regarded as the son of Aeneas and the legendary ancestor of the Julian family, including Julius Caesar.
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C.
Flaccus
Flaccus is the cognomen of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in English as Horace.
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D.
Hannibalianus
Hannibalianus was a 4th-century Roman nobleman and member of Constantine the Great’s family, briefly elevated with a royal title during the emperor’s eastern campaigns before being executed in the dynastic purges of 337.
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E.
Ventidius
Ventidius is a Roman general and loyal supporter of Mark Antony who appears as a minor but significant character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
- 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: Sextilis Target entity description: Sextilis was the original Latin name for the sixth month of the early Roman calendar, later renamed August in honor of Emperor Augustus.
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A.
Marcius Turbo
Marcius Turbo was a prominent Roman general and governor under Emperor Trajan and Hadrian, noted for his successful military campaigns in the early 2nd century CE.
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B.
Iulus
Iulus is a figure in Roman mythology, traditionally regarded as the son of Aeneas and the legendary ancestor of the Julian family, including Julius Caesar.
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C.
Flaccus
Flaccus is the cognomen of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in English as Horace.
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D.
Hannibalianus
Hannibalianus was a 4th-century Roman nobleman and member of Constantine the Great’s family, briefly elevated with a royal title during the emperor’s eastern campaigns before being executed in the dynastic purges of 337.
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E.
Ventidius
Ventidius is a Roman general and loyal supporter of Mark Antony who appears as a minor but significant character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman calendar month
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month ⓘ |
| associatedWithRuler | Augustus ⓘ |
| calendarType | Roman calendar ⓘ |
| correspondsToMonthInGregorianCalendar | August ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
ancient Rome
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linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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| eraOfUse |
Roman Republic
ⓘ
early Roman Empire ⓘ |
| etymologyRoot | Latin "sex" (six) ⓘ |
| hasNumericalOrder | 6 ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | obsolete month name ⓘ |
| honorificRenamingTarget |
Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus
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linked to:
Divus Augustus
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| languageOfName | Latin ⓘ |
| laterRenamedAs | August ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | sixth ⓘ |
| originalNameOf | August ⓘ |
| positionInYear | sixth month ⓘ |
| predecessorMonth | Quintilis ⓘ |
| renamedBy | Roman Senate ⓘ |
| renamedInHonorOf | Augustus ⓘ |
| renamingReason | to honor Emperor Augustus ⓘ |
| replacedByName | Augustus (month name) ⓘ |
| successorMonth | September ⓘ |
| usedBeforeReform |
Julian calendar reform
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linked to:
Julian calendar
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| usedInCalendar | early Roman calendar ⓘ |
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: Sextilis Description of subject: Sextilis was the original Latin name for the sixth month of the early Roman calendar, later renamed August in honor of Emperor Augustus.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.