Priscus
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Priscus is an ancient Roman cognomen meaning "old" or "venerable," used by several notable figures in Roman history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Priscus canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6338454 — 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: Priscus Context triple: [Pris, etymologicalRoot, Priscus]
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A.
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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B.
Stilicho
Stilicho was a prominent late Roman general and statesman of Vandal descent who effectively ruled the Western Roman Empire as regent during the reign of Emperor Honorius.
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C.
Eugenius
Eugenius was a late 4th-century usurper of the Western Roman Empire who was defeated and killed by Emperor Theodosius I at the Battle of the Frigidus.
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D.
Gunderic
Gunderic was a 5th-century king of the Vandals and Alans who led his people in their migration into Roman territories, laying groundwork for the Vandal kingdom later expanded by his relative Genseric.
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E.
Desiderius
Desiderius was the final king of the Lombards, whose defeat by Charlemagne in the 8th century marked the end of the Lombard Kingdom in Italy.
- 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: Priscus Target entity description: Priscus is an ancient Roman cognomen meaning "old" or "venerable," used by several notable figures in Roman history.
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A.
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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B.
Stilicho
Stilicho was a prominent late Roman general and statesman of Vandal descent who effectively ruled the Western Roman Empire as regent during the reign of Emperor Honorius.
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C.
Eugenius
Eugenius was a late 4th-century usurper of the Western Roman Empire who was defeated and killed by Emperor Theodosius I at the Battle of the Frigidus.
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D.
Gunderic
Gunderic was a 5th-century king of the Vandals and Alans who led his people in their migration into Roman territories, laying groundwork for the Vandal kingdom later expanded by his relative Genseric.
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E.
Desiderius
Desiderius was the final king of the Lombards, whose defeat by Charlemagne in the 8th century marked the end of the Lombard Kingdom in Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ancient Roman cognomen ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
dignity
ⓘ
seniority ⓘ |
| category | Roman cognomina ⓘ |
| etymologyRoot | Latin adjective "priscus" ⓘ |
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Gaius Marius Victorinus (sometimes styled Victorinus Priscus)
ⓘ
linked to:
Victorinus
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus ⓘ Priscus (Thracian general under Emperor Valens) ⓘ Priscus of Epirus ⓘ Priscus of Panium ⓘ Servius Sulpicius Galba (with cognomen Priscus in some branches) ⓘ
linked to:
Servius Sulpicius Galba
|
| hasVariantForm | Prisca ⓘ |
| historicalUsagePeriod |
Roman Empire
ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| meaning |
old
ⓘ
venerable ⓘ |
| nameType | cognomen ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman naming system ⓘ |
| semanticField |
age
ⓘ
respect ⓘ |
| usedAs | cognomen in Roman tria nomina ⓘ |
| usedBy | Roman citizens ⓘ |
| usedIn |
ancient Rome
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Antiquity
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| 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: Priscus Description of subject: Priscus is an ancient Roman cognomen meaning "old" or "venerable," used by several notable figures in Roman history.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.