Ausonius
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Ausonius was a 4th-century Roman poet, rhetorician, and statesman best known for his Latin poetry and his role as tutor to the future emperor Gratian.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ausonius canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6064368 — 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: Ausonius Context triple: [Burdigala, hasNotableResident, Ausonius]
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A.
Sidonius Apollinaris
Sidonius Apollinaris was a 5th-century Gallo-Roman aristocrat, bishop, and letter-writer whose works provide a key eyewitness account of the final decades of the Western Roman Empire.
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B.
Sulpicius
Sulpicius is the Roman family name (nomen) of the gens to which the emperor Galba belonged.
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C.
Sulpicius Severus
Sulpicius Severus was a late 4th- to early 5th-century Christian writer and historian best known for his influential hagiographical and historical works in Latin.
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D.
Marathonius
Marathonius is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of Deucalion, the legendary survivor of the great flood.
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E.
Paulinus of Aquileia
Paulinus of Aquileia was an 8th–9th century Italian bishop, theologian, and scholar closely associated with Charlemagne’s intellectual reforms and the Carolingian Renaissance.
- 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: Ausonius Target entity description: Ausonius was a 4th-century Roman poet, rhetorician, and statesman best known for his Latin poetry and his role as tutor to the future emperor Gratian.
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A.
Sidonius Apollinaris
Sidonius Apollinaris was a 5th-century Gallo-Roman aristocrat, bishop, and letter-writer whose works provide a key eyewitness account of the final decades of the Western Roman Empire.
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B.
Sulpicius
Sulpicius is the Roman family name (nomen) of the gens to which the emperor Galba belonged.
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C.
Sulpicius Severus
Sulpicius Severus was a late 4th- to early 5th-century Christian writer and historian best known for his influential hagiographical and historical works in Latin.
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D.
Marathonius
Marathonius is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as a son of Deucalion, the legendary survivor of the great flood.
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E.
Paulinus of Aquileia
Paulinus of Aquileia was an 8th–9th century Italian bishop, theologian, and scholar closely associated with Charlemagne’s intellectual reforms and the Carolingian Renaissance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
4th-century writer
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Latin-language writer ⓘ Roman poet ⓘ rhetorician ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf |
Gratian
NERFINISHED
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Valentinian I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Roman ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Bordeaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Gallo-Roman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ausonius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Decimus Magnus Ausonius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
didactic poetry
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epigram ⓘ panegyric ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Decimus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | later Latin poets ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Late Latin literature ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Latin poetry
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role as tutor to the future emperor Gratian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cento nuptialis
NERFINISHED
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Ephemeris NERFINISHED ⓘ Mosella NERFINISHED ⓘ Parentalia NERFINISHED ⓘ Professores Burdigalenses NERFINISHED ⓘ Technopaegnion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
imperial tutor
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poet ⓘ rhetorician ⓘ statesman ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bordeaux
NERFINISHED
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Burdigala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near Bordeaux ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
consul of the Roman Empire
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praetorian prefect of Gaul ⓘ tutor of Gratian ⓘ |
| region | Gaul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| student | Gratian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 4th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Bordeaux
NERFINISHED
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Trier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ausonius Description of subject: Ausonius was a 4th-century Roman poet, rhetorician, and statesman best known for his Latin poetry and his role as tutor to the future emperor Gratian.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.