Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus
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Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus was a Roman consul and general best known for his unsuccessful campaign against Spartacus during the Third Servile War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8135572 — 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: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus Context triple: [Third Servile War, associatedCommander, Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus]
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Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was a Roman senator of the late Republic who served as consul in 56 BC and belonged to the prominent patrician Cornelii Lentuli family.
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B.
Lucilius Bassus
Lucilius Bassus was a 1st-century Roman general who played a key role in suppressing the Jewish Revolt under Emperor Vespasian.
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C.
Lollius
Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
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D.
Bassianus
Bassianus is a noble Roman and the younger brother of Saturninus in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Titus Andronicus," whose marriage to Lavinia helps ignite the play’s violent political and familial conflicts.
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E.
Cassianus
Cassianus is the Latin name of Saint Cassian of Imola, an early Christian martyr and teacher venerated in the Catholic Church.
- 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: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus Target entity description: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus was a Roman consul and general best known for his unsuccessful campaign against Spartacus during the Third Servile War.
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A.
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus was a Roman senator of the late Republic who served as consul in 56 BC and belonged to the prominent patrician Cornelii Lentuli family.
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B.
Lucilius Bassus
Lucilius Bassus was a 1st-century Roman general who played a key role in suppressing the Jewish Revolt under Emperor Vespasian.
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C.
Lollius
Lollius was the Roman gens (family line) to which the aristocratic woman and briefly reigning empress Lollia Paulina belonged.
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D.
Bassianus
Bassianus is a noble Roman and the younger brother of Saturninus in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Titus Andronicus," whose marriage to Lavinia helps ignite the play’s violent political and familial conflicts.
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E.
Cassianus
Cassianus is the Latin name of Saint Cassian of Imola, an early Christian martyr and teacher venerated in the Catholic Church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman consul
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ancient Roman general ⓘ ancient Roman politician ⓘ patrician ⓘ |
| activityStartCentury | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| agnomen | Clodianus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| campaignResult | defeat by Spartacus ⓘ |
| citizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| coConsulWith | Lucius Gellius Publicola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cognomen | Lentulus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commandedFor | Roman Senate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Third Servile War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| consulYear | 72 BC ⓘ |
| defeatedBy | Spartacus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Late Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| government | Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldOffice | consul of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| historicalRole | commander of Roman forces against slave rebellion ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf | gens Cornelia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Appian's "Civil Wars"
NERFINISHED
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Plutarch's "Life of Crassus" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
consular commander
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legatus ⓘ |
| militaryTheater | Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | campaign against Spartacus ⓘ |
| officeLocation | Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opponent | Spartacus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalFaction | optimates ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Italian Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | senatorial aristocracy ⓘ |
| sourceType | ancient historiography ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Third Servile War (73–71 BC) 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: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus Description of subject: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus was a Roman consul and general best known for his unsuccessful campaign against Spartacus during the Third Servile War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.