Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna
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Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, known primarily as the son of the powerful consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna and a member of the influential Cornelii family.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus | 3 |
| Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna canonical | 1 |
| Lucius Cornelius Cinna (the younger) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8737401 — 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 Cinna Context triple: [Lucius Cornelius Cinna, father, Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna]
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A.
Lucius Cornelius Cinna
Lucius Cornelius Cinna was a Roman statesman and four-time consul who led the Marian faction in the early 1st century BC and dominated Roman politics after Sulla’s first march on Rome.
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B.
Lucius Opimius
Lucius Opimius was a Roman statesman and consul best known for violently suppressing Gaius Gracchus and his supporters, marking a key escalation in the use of force in Roman politics.
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C.
Appius Claudius Pulcher
Appius Claudius Pulcher was a prominent Roman statesman and general from the patrician Claudian family who held high offices during the late Republic.
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D.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman general and statesman who became dictator, known for his civil war victory, constitutional reforms, and infamous proscriptions.
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E.
Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius was a Roman architect known for designing the Tabularium, the official records office of ancient Rome located on the Capitoline Hill.
- 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 Cinna Target entity description: Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, known primarily as the son of the powerful consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna and a member of the influential Cornelii family.
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A.
Lucius Cornelius Cinna
Lucius Cornelius Cinna was a Roman statesman and four-time consul who led the Marian faction in the early 1st century BC and dominated Roman politics after Sulla’s first march on Rome.
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B.
Lucius Opimius
Lucius Opimius was a Roman statesman and consul best known for violently suppressing Gaius Gracchus and his supporters, marking a key escalation in the use of force in Roman politics.
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C.
Appius Claudius Pulcher
Appius Claudius Pulcher was a prominent Roman statesman and general from the patrician Claudian family who held high offices during the late Republic.
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D.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla was a Roman general and statesman who became dictator, known for his civil war victory, constitutional reforms, and infamous proscriptions.
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E.
Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius was a Roman architect known for designing the Tabularium, the official records office of ancient Rome located on the Capitoline Hill.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman nobleman
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ancient Roman politician ⓘ member of the Cornelii Cinnae ⓘ patrician ⓘ |
| cognomen | Cinna ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| era | 1st century BC ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Roman ⓘ |
| familyName | Cornelius ⓘ |
| father | Lucius Cornelius Cinna ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being son of consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna
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membership in influential Cornelii family ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Cornelii Cinnae branch of gens Cornelia
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linked to:
Cornelii family
gens Cornelia ⓘ |
| mother | Annia (wife of Lucius Cornelius Cinna) ⓘ |
| nomen | Cornelius ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
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Gnaeus Papirius Carbo ⓘ Julius Caesar ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | popularis faction ⓘ |
| praenomen | Gnaeus ⓘ |
| sibling |
Cornelia (first wife of Julius Caesar)
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Lucius Cornelius Cinna (the younger) ⓘ
linked to:
Lucius Cornelius Cinna
another unnamed sister of the Cornelii Cinnae ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late Roman Republic ⓘ |
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 Cinna Description of subject: Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna was a Roman nobleman of the late Republic, known primarily as the son of the powerful consul Lucius Cornelius Cinna and a member of the influential Cornelii family.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna
linked to: Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna
subject linked to:
Cinna
linked to: Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna