Cornelia (first wife of Julius Caesar)
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Cornelia was a Roman noblewoman, the first wife of Julius Caesar and daughter of the powerful Marian leader Lucius Cornelius Cinna.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornelia (first wife of Julius Caesar) canonical | 2 |
| Cornelia (daughter of Scribonia) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8737404 — 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: Cornelia (first wife of Julius Caesar) Context triple: [Lucius Cornelius Cinna, child, Cornelia (first wife of Julius Caesar)]
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A.
Cornelia Metella
Cornelia Metella was a Roman noblewoman from the powerful Metelli family, best known as the last wife of the statesman and general Pompey the Great during the late Roman Republic.
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B.
Atia Balba Caesonia
Atia Balba Caesonia was a Roman noblewoman of the late Republic, best known as the mother of the future emperor Augustus and niece of Julius Caesar.
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C.
Aemilia Paulla
Aemilia Paulla was a prominent Roman noblewoman of the 3rd–2nd century BCE, noted for her wealth, lineage, and role in one of the Republic’s most influential aristocratic families.
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D.
Milonia Caesonia
Milonia Caesonia was the fourth wife of the Roman emperor Caligula, noted by ancient sources for her beauty, influence at court, and violent death alongside her husband in 41 CE.
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E.
Aemilia Lepida
Aemilia Lepida was a Roman noblewoman of the early Imperial period, known primarily as the wife of the future emperor Galba.
- 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: Cornelia (first wife of Julius Caesar) Target entity description: Cornelia was a Roman noblewoman, the first wife of Julius Caesar and daughter of the powerful Marian leader Lucius Cornelius Cinna.
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A.
Cornelia Metella
Cornelia Metella was a Roman noblewoman from the powerful Metelli family, best known as the last wife of the statesman and general Pompey the Great during the late Roman Republic.
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B.
Atia Balba Caesonia
Atia Balba Caesonia was a Roman noblewoman of the late Republic, best known as the mother of the future emperor Augustus and niece of Julius Caesar.
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C.
Aemilia Paulla
Aemilia Paulla was a prominent Roman noblewoman of the 3rd–2nd century BCE, noted for her wealth, lineage, and role in one of the Republic’s most influential aristocratic families.
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D.
Milonia Caesonia
Milonia Caesonia was the fourth wife of the Roman emperor Caligula, noted by ancient sources for her beauty, influence at court, and violent death alongside her husband in 41 CE.
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E.
Aemilia Lepida
Aemilia Lepida was a Roman noblewoman of the early Imperial period, known primarily as the wife of the future emperor Galba.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Roman noblewoman ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Julius Caesar’s early political career ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Rome (traditional, uncertain)
ⓘ
linked to:
Rome (traditional)
|
| causeOfDeath | childbirth-related (traditional view, uncertain) ⓘ |
| child |
Julia (daughter of Julius Caesar)
ⓘ
linked to:
Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar
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| citizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | Ancient Roman ⓘ |
| daughterOf | Lucius Cornelius Cinna ⓘ |
| deathDate | c. 69 BC ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Roman ⓘ |
| family | gens Cornelia ⓘ |
| father | Lucius Cornelius Cinna ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation | Roman consul ⓘ |
| fatherPoliticalFaction | Marian faction ⓘ |
| givenName | Cornelia ⓘ |
| historicalSource |
Appian’s Roman History
ⓘ
Plutarch’s Life of Caesar ⓘ
linked to:
Life of Julius Caesar
Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars ⓘ
linked to:
De vita Caesarum
|
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| maritalStatusAtDeath | married to Julius Caesar ⓘ |
| marriageStart | c. 84 BC ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Cornelii Cinnae branch of gens Cornelia
ⓘ
linked to:
Gens Cornelia
|
| notableEvent |
Marriage opposed by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
ⓘ
Refusal of Julius Caesar to divorce her at Sulla’s command ⓘ |
| politicalContext | Sullan proscriptions ⓘ |
| socialClass | Roman patrician ⓘ |
| spouse | Julius Caesar ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
Roman general
ⓘ
Roman statesman ⓘ |
| spousePoliticalOffice | dictator of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century BC ⓘ |
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: Cornelia (first wife of Julius Caesar) Description of subject: Cornelia was a Roman noblewoman, the first wife of Julius Caesar and daughter of the powerful Marian leader Lucius Cornelius Cinna.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Scribonia (second wife of Augustus)
linked to: Cornelia (first wife of Julius Caesar)