Gaius Plautius Venox
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Gaius Plautius Venox was a Roman magistrate and engineer known for overseeing the construction of Rome’s earliest major aqueduct, contributing significantly to the city’s water supply infrastructure.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Plautius | 2 |
| Gaius Plautius Venox canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8621322 — 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 Plautius Venox Context triple: [Aqua Appia, constructedBy, Gaius Plautius Venox]
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A.
Marcus Plautius Silvanus
Marcus Plautius Silvanus was a Roman general and statesman of the early 1st century AD, noted for his military leadership in the Balkans and service under Emperor Augustus.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Lucius Scribonius Libo
Lucius Scribonius Libo was a Roman senator and statesman of the late Republic, known for his political alliances with figures such as Pompey and for his involvement in the turbulent civil conflicts of the era.
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E.
Marcus Publius Glabrus
Marcus Publius Glabrus is a fictional Roman commander best known as a character in the 1960 film "Spartacus."
- 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 Plautius Venox Target entity description: Gaius Plautius Venox was a Roman magistrate and engineer known for overseeing the construction of Rome’s earliest major aqueduct, contributing significantly to the city’s water supply infrastructure.
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A.
Marcus Plautius Silvanus
Marcus Plautius Silvanus was a Roman general and statesman of the early 1st century AD, noted for his military leadership in the Balkans and service under Emperor Augustus.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Lucius Scribonius Libo
Lucius Scribonius Libo was a Roman senator and statesman of the late Republic, known for his political alliances with figures such as Pompey and for his involvement in the turbulent civil conflicts of the era.
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E.
Marcus Publius Glabrus
Marcus Publius Glabrus is a fictional Roman commander best known as a character in the 1960 film "Spartacus."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman engineer
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Roman magistrate ⓘ ancient Roman politician ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | urban infrastructure of Rome ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
development of Rome’s aqueduct system
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improvement of urban water supply in Rome ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Roman culture ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
hydraulic engineering
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public infrastructure ⓘ |
| genre | Roman engineering ⓘ |
| hasRole | overseer of aqueduct construction ⓘ |
| influenced | later Roman water management projects ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to Rome’s water supply infrastructure
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overseeing construction of one of Rome’s earliest major aqueducts ⓘ |
| legacy | early development of Rome’s public water system ⓘ |
| notableWork | construction of an early Roman aqueduct ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
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magistrate ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of Roman aqueducts
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history of Roman engineering ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Roman magistrate responsible for public works ⓘ |
| significantEvent | supervision of early aqueduct building in Rome ⓘ |
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: Gaius Plautius Venox Description of subject: Gaius Plautius Venox was a Roman magistrate and engineer known for overseeing the construction of Rome’s earliest major aqueduct, contributing significantly to the city’s water supply infrastructure.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ancient Roman nomen
this entity surface form:
Plautius
this entity surface form:
Plautius