Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispallus
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Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispallus was a Roman statesman and general of the prominent patrician Cornelii Scipiones family during the middle Roman Republic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispallus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8915322 — 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 Scipio Hispallus Context triple: [gens Cornelia, hasMember, Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispallus]
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Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina was a Roman consul and naval commander of the early First Punic War, remembered for suffering one of Rome’s first major naval defeats.
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Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus was a Roman general and statesman of the early Second Punic War, known for his campaigns in Hispania against Carthaginian forces.
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C.
Metellus Scipio
Metellus Scipio was a Roman senator and general of the late Republic, known as a leading Optimate commander who opposed Julius Caesar during the civil war and was defeated at the Battle of Thapsus.
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D.
Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus
Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus was a Roman general and statesman best known for his victory over the Seleucid king Antiochus III at the Battle of Magnesia, which earned him his cognomen "Asiaticus."
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E.
Scipio Nasica Serapio
Scipio Nasica Serapio was a prominent Roman statesman and jurist of the 2nd century BC, known for his conservative politics and role in the opposition to the reforms of Tiberius Gracchus.
- 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 Scipio Hispallus Target entity description: Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispallus was a Roman statesman and general of the prominent patrician Cornelii Scipiones family during the middle Roman Republic.
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A.
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina was a Roman consul and naval commander of the early First Punic War, remembered for suffering one of Rome’s first major naval defeats.
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B.
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus was a Roman general and statesman of the early Second Punic War, known for his campaigns in Hispania against Carthaginian forces.
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C.
Metellus Scipio
Metellus Scipio was a Roman senator and general of the late Republic, known as a leading Optimate commander who opposed Julius Caesar during the civil war and was defeated at the Battle of Thapsus.
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D.
Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus
Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus was a Roman general and statesman best known for his victory over the Seleucid king Antiochus III at the Battle of Magnesia, which earned him his cognomen "Asiaticus."
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E.
Scipio Nasica Serapio
Scipio Nasica Serapio was a prominent Roman statesman and jurist of the 2nd century BC, known for his conservative politics and role in the opposition to the reforms of Tiberius Gracchus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman consul
ⓘ
ancient Roman general ⓘ ancient Roman politician ⓘ patrician ⓘ |
| agnomen | Hispallus ⓘ |
| cognomen | Scipio ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Roman Republic ⓘ |
| culture | ancient Roman culture ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Romans ⓘ |
| familyName | Cornelius ⓘ |
| governedBy | Roman law ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Gnaeus ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Cornelii Scipiones
ⓘ
gens Cornelia ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Cornelii Scipiones ⓘ |
| nomen | Cornelius ⓘ |
| notableFor |
service as a Roman general
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service as a Roman statesman ⓘ |
| partOf | Roman aristocracy ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | optimates ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Roman magistrate
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consul of the Roman Republic ⓘ praetor of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| praenomen | Gnaeus ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialClass | Roman patrician ⓘ |
| timePeriod | middle 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 Scipio Hispallus Description of subject: Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispallus was a Roman statesman and general of the prominent patrician Cornelii Scipiones family during the middle Roman Republic.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.