Emperor Valens
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Emperor Valens was a 4th-century Roman emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, best known for his role in the Gothic Wars and his death at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 AD.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emperor Valens canonical | 3 |
| Flavius Julius Valens | 1 |
| Flavius Julius Valens Augustus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7514346 — 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: Emperor Valens Context triple: [Valens Aqueduct, commissionedBy, Emperor Valens]
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A.
Numerian
Numerian was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd century who briefly ruled the eastern half of the empire before his mysterious death in 284 AD.
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B.
Maxentius
Maxentius was a Roman emperor who ruled Italy and Africa in the early 4th century and was famously defeated by Constantine the Great at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
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C.
Emperor Carus
Emperor Carus was a late 3rd-century Roman emperor known for his brief but successful military campaigns against the Sassanian Empire and his sudden, mysterious death during the Persian campaign.
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D.
Emperor Decius
Emperor Decius was a third-century Roman emperor best known for his empire-wide persecution of Christians and efforts to restore traditional Roman religion.
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E.
Vetranio
Vetranio was a 4th-century Roman general who briefly ruled as a usurper emperor in the Balkans before abdicating in favor of Constantius II.
- 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: Emperor Valens Target entity description: Emperor Valens was a 4th-century Roman emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, best known for his role in the Gothic Wars and his death at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 AD.
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A.
Numerian
Numerian was a Roman emperor of the late 3rd century who briefly ruled the eastern half of the empire before his mysterious death in 284 AD.
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B.
Maxentius
Maxentius was a Roman emperor who ruled Italy and Africa in the early 4th century and was famously defeated by Constantine the Great at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.
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C.
Emperor Carus
Emperor Carus was a late 3rd-century Roman emperor known for his brief but successful military campaigns against the Sassanian Empire and his sudden, mysterious death during the Persian campaign.
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D.
Emperor Decius
Emperor Decius was a third-century Roman emperor best known for his empire-wide persecution of Christians and efforts to restore traditional Roman religion.
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E.
Vetranio
Vetranio was a 4th-century Roman general who briefly ruled as a usurper emperor in the Balkans before abdicating in favor of Constantius II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
4th-century Roman person
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Eastern Roman emperor ⓘ Roman emperor ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Emperor Valentinian I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| battle |
Battle of Adrianople
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Marcianople NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of the Willows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 0328-01-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Cibalae
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pannonia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brother | Emperor Valentinian I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in battle ⓘ |
| coEmperorWith | Emperor Valentinian I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
First Gothic War
NERFINISHED
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Gothic War (376–382) NERFINISHED ⓘ War against the Goths NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Eastern Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 0378-08-09 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Thrace
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
near Adrianople ⓘ |
| dynasty | Constantinian dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Illyrian Romans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Gratian the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Flavius Julius Valens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Valens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | his defeat at Adrianople weakened Roman military power in the Balkans ⓘ |
| imperialCollege | Valentinianic dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Battle of Adrianople
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gothic War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| mother | Unknown ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
division of the empire with Valentinian I in 364
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settlement of Goths as foederati ⓘ |
| policy |
persecution of Nicene Christians
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support of Arian bishops ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Augustus of the East
NERFINISHED
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Roman consul ⓘ |
| predecessor | Jovian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 0378-08-09 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 0364-03-28 ⓘ |
| religion | Arian Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Constantinople NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ruledRegion |
Asia Minor
NERFINISHED
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Balkans NERFINISHED ⓘ Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Albia Dominica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Theodosius I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Augustus
NERFINISHED
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Imperator Caesar Flavius Julius Valens Augustus 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: Emperor Valens Description of subject: Emperor Valens was a 4th-century Roman emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, best known for his role in the Gothic Wars and his death at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 AD.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Flavius Julius Valens
this entity surface form:
Flavius Julius Valens Augustus