Gens Cornelia
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Gens Cornelia was one of the most prominent and influential patrician families of ancient Rome, producing numerous notable statesmen, generals, and consuls.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelia gens | 2 |
| Gens Cornelia canonical | 2 |
| gens Cornelia | 2 |
| Cornelii Cinnae branch of gens Cornelia | 1 |
| Roman nomen Cornelius | 1 |
| Sullae branch of the Cornelii | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9273814 — 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: Gens Cornelia Context triple: [Colonia Cornelia Veneria Pompeianorum, namedAfter, Gens Cornelia]
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A.
Cocceia gens
The Cocceia gens was an ancient Roman family of senatorial rank, best known for producing the emperor Nerva.
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B.
Pompeia gens
The Pompeia gens was a prominent plebeian family in ancient Rome that produced several notable politicians and generals, most famously Pompey the Great.
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C.
Gens Iulia
Gens Iulia was a prominent ancient Roman patrician family that claimed divine descent from Venus through Aeneas and his son Ascanius, and later produced Julius Caesar and Augustus.
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D.
Atia gens
The Atia gens was an ancient Roman family or clan, known for its members' roles in Roman political and social life.
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E.
Curia Cornelia
Curia Cornelia was a principal meeting house of the Roman Senate in the Roman Forum during the late Republic.
- 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: Gens Cornelia Target entity description: Gens Cornelia was one of the most prominent and influential patrician families of ancient Rome, producing numerous notable statesmen, generals, and consuls.
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A.
Cocceia gens
The Cocceia gens was an ancient Roman family of senatorial rank, best known for producing the emperor Nerva.
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B.
Pompeia gens
The Pompeia gens was a prominent plebeian family in ancient Rome that produced several notable politicians and generals, most famously Pompey the Great.
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C.
Gens Iulia
Gens Iulia was a prominent ancient Roman patrician family that claimed divine descent from Venus through Aeneas and his son Ascanius, and later produced Julius Caesar and Augustus.
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D.
Atia gens
The Atia gens was an ancient Roman family or clan, known for its members' roles in Roman political and social life.
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E.
Curia Cornelia
Curia Cornelia was a principal meeting house of the Roman Senate in the Roman Forum during the late Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Gens Cornelia Description of subject: Gens Cornelia was one of the most prominent and influential patrician families of ancient Rome, producing numerous notable statesmen, generals, and consuls.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Gens Cornelia
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subject linked to:
Cornelia (first wife of Julius Caesar)
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linked to: Gens Cornelia
subject linked to:
Cornelia Sulla (daughter of Sulla and Caecilia Metella Dalmatica)
linked to: Gens Cornelia