Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor
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Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor was a Roman senator and consul of the late Republic, known for his marriage to Julius Caesar’s daughter Octavia and his connections to the Julio-Claudian political elite.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor canonical | 4 |
| Gaius Claudius Marcellus | 1 |
| Marcus Claudius Marcellus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8097881 — 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: Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor Context triple: [Marcellus the Younger, father, Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor]
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Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a prominent Roman general and statesman of the 3rd century BC, renowned for his campaigns against Hannibal and the capture of Syracuse during the Second Punic War.
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Lucius Cestius
Lucius Cestius was an ancient Roman figure, likely a magistrate or builder, commemorated as the namesake of the historic Ponte Cestio bridge in Rome.
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C.
Lucius Fabricius
Lucius Fabricius was a Roman official of the late Republic best known for commissioning the ancient stone bridge Ponte Fabricio over the Tiber River in Rome.
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D.
Gnaeus Egnatius
Gnaeus Egnatius was a Roman proconsul and road-builder best known for initiating the construction of the Via Egnatia across the Balkans in the 2nd century BCE.
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Marcus Livius Salinator
Marcus Livius Salinator was a Roman consul and general best known for his role in defeating Hasdrubal Barca at the Battle of the Metaurus during the Second Punic War.
- 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: Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor Target entity description: Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor was a Roman senator and consul of the late Republic, known for his marriage to Julius Caesar’s daughter Octavia and his connections to the Julio-Claudian political elite.
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A.
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a prominent Roman general and statesman of the 3rd century BC, renowned for his campaigns against Hannibal and the capture of Syracuse during the Second Punic War.
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B.
Lucius Cestius
Lucius Cestius was an ancient Roman figure, likely a magistrate or builder, commemorated as the namesake of the historic Ponte Cestio bridge in Rome.
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C.
Lucius Fabricius
Lucius Fabricius was a Roman official of the late Republic best known for commissioning the ancient stone bridge Ponte Fabricio over the Tiber River in Rome.
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Gnaeus Egnatius
Gnaeus Egnatius was a Roman proconsul and road-builder best known for initiating the construction of the Via Egnatia across the Balkans in the 2nd century BCE.
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E.
Marcus Livius Salinator
Marcus Livius Salinator was a Roman consul and general best known for his role in defeating Hasdrubal Barca at the Battle of the Metaurus during the Second Punic War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor Description of subject: Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor was a Roman senator and consul of the late Republic, known for his marriage to Julius Caesar’s daughter Octavia and his connections to the Julio-Claudian political elite.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor
linked to: Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor