Catulus
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Catulus is the cognomen (family surname) of the Roman statesman and general Quintus Lutatius Catulus, a prominent figure of the late Roman Republic.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Catulus canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9149385 — 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: Catulus Context triple: [Quintus Lutatius Catulus, cognomen, Catulus]
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A.
Tibullus
Tibullus was a prominent Roman elegiac poet of the Augustan era, best known for his refined, melancholic love poetry and idealization of rural simplicity.
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B.
Catiline
Catiline was a Roman senator best known for leading a failed conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic in 63 BCE.
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C.
Florus
Florus was a Roman historian and rhetorician best known for his epitome of Roman history, which includes an account of the Third Servile War.
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D.
Catullus
Catullus was a Roman lyric poet of the late Republic whose passionate, personal verses—especially his love poems to "Lesbia"—profoundly shaped later Latin poetry.
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E.
Lucilius
Lucilius was an early Roman satirist, often regarded as the founder of Roman verse satire and a major influence on later satirists like Juvenal.
- 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: Catulus Target entity description: Catulus is the cognomen (family surname) of the Roman statesman and general Quintus Lutatius Catulus, a prominent figure of the late Roman Republic.
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A.
Tibullus
Tibullus was a prominent Roman elegiac poet of the Augustan era, best known for his refined, melancholic love poetry and idealization of rural simplicity.
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B.
Catiline
Catiline was a Roman senator best known for leading a failed conspiracy to overthrow the Roman Republic in 63 BCE.
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C.
Florus
Florus was a Roman historian and rhetorician best known for his epitome of Roman history, which includes an account of the Third Servile War.
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D.
Catullus
Catullus was a Roman lyric poet of the late Republic whose passionate, personal verses—especially his love poems to "Lesbia"—profoundly shaped later Latin poetry.
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E.
Lucilius
Lucilius was an early Roman satirist, often regarded as the founder of Roman verse satire and a major influence on later satirists like Juvenal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman cognomen
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cognomen ⓘ |
| associatedWithGens | gens Lutatia ⓘ |
| category | Ancient Roman family names ⓘ |
| denotes | family surname of Quintus Lutatius Catulus ⓘ |
| etymologyRoot | Latin word "catulus" (meaning "whelp" or "young animal") ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| partOfNameType | Roman naming convention ⓘ |
| usedBy | Quintus Lutatius Catulus ⓘ |
| usedIn |
late Roman Republic
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linked to:
Late Roman Republic
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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: Catulus Description of subject: Catulus is the cognomen (family surname) of the Roman statesman and general Quintus Lutatius Catulus, a prominent figure of the late Roman Republic.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.