Publius Quinctilius Varus
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Publius Quinctilius Varus was a Roman general and politician best known for suffering a catastrophic defeat in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, which halted Roman expansion into Germania.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Publius Quinctilius Varus canonical | 19 |
| Publius Quinctilius Varus the Elder | 1 |
| Quintilius Varus | 1 |
| Roman general Publius Quinctilius Varus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8733261 — 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: Publius Quinctilius Varus Context triple: [Teutoburg Forest, associatedWith, Publius Quinctilius Varus]
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Publius Ostorius Scapula
Publius Ostorius Scapula was a 1st-century Roman senator and general who, as governor of Britain under Emperor Claudius, led major campaigns to consolidate Roman control over the province.
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B.
Quintus Petillius Cerialis
Quintus Petillius Cerialis was a 1st-century Roman general and politician known for his campaigns in Britain and for suppressing the Batavian revolt under Emperor Vespasian.
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C.
Julius Civilis
Julius Civilis was a 1st-century Batavian chieftain and Roman military officer who led a major revolt against Roman rule along the Rhine frontier.
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D.
Ventidius
Ventidius is a Roman general and loyal supporter of Mark Antony who appears as a minor but significant character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
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E.
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was a 1st-century Roman general and governor of Britain best known for crushing Boudica’s revolt and consolidating Roman control over the province.
- 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: Publius Quinctilius Varus Target entity description: Publius Quinctilius Varus was a Roman general and politician best known for suffering a catastrophic defeat in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, which halted Roman expansion into Germania.
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A.
Publius Ostorius Scapula
Publius Ostorius Scapula was a 1st-century Roman senator and general who, as governor of Britain under Emperor Claudius, led major campaigns to consolidate Roman control over the province.
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B.
Quintus Petillius Cerialis
Quintus Petillius Cerialis was a 1st-century Roman general and politician known for his campaigns in Britain and for suppressing the Batavian revolt under Emperor Vespasian.
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C.
Julius Civilis
Julius Civilis was a 1st-century Batavian chieftain and Roman military officer who led a major revolt against Roman rule along the Rhine frontier.
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D.
Ventidius
Ventidius is a Roman general and loyal supporter of Mark Antony who appears as a minor but significant character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
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Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was a 1st-century Roman general and governor of Britain best known for crushing Boudica’s revolt and consolidating Roman control over the province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Publius Quinctilius Varus Description of subject: Publius Quinctilius Varus was a Roman general and politician best known for suffering a catastrophic defeat in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, which halted Roman expansion into Germania.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Arminius
linked to: Publius Quinctilius Varus
linked to: Publius Quinctilius Varus
linked to: Publius Quinctilius Varus